The Munros
The highest mountains in Scotland are known as Munros, named after Sir Hugh T. Munro who in 1891 surveyed all the country’s mountains above 3000 feet (914.4 metres) and produced his Tables which catalogued 236 peaks that he deemed to be individual mountains with ‘sufficient separation’ between each other. Over the years and with advances in surveying, there have been several revisions to Munro’s original listing, the latest being in 1997. Currently, there are 284 Munros and a further 227 ‘Tops’ (those peaks above 3000 feet which are part of a range or ridge but which are judged not to be separate Munros of Scotland).
Climbing all the†Scottish†Munros, or ‘Munro-bagging’ is a popular pursuit amongst the climbing and hillwalking fraternity. The first recorded bagger to climb all the Munros was the Rev. A. E. Robertson in 1901 and since then, the Scottish Mountaineering Club has recorded over 2800 intrepid souls who have ‘compleated’.