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The Munros: Scottish Mountaineering Club Hillwalkers' Guide (Hardcover)

by Donald J. Bennet (Editor), Rab Anderson (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Scottish Mountaineering Trust; 3rd Revised edition edition (15 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0907521940
  • ISBN-13: 978-0907521945
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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This 2006 revised reprint of the best selling guidebook to the Munros contains a completely new set of maps, which as well as showing the Munros and Munro Tops will also show all of the neighbouring Corbetts, Corbett Tops, Grahams and Graham Tops. In addition to extensive text amendments, the images throughout the book are enhanced and there are a number of new images, including the cover. This is the definitive hillwalkers' guidebook to the Munros, compiled by the Scottish Mountaineering Trust on behalf of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best guide for the Scottish hillwalker, 25 Jan 2007
This book is the definitive guide to the Munros. Every one of them is given a detailed description of how to climb it with photos, maps and a good description of the route(s). If you've never climbed a Munro in your life, but want to start, this is the book for you. Buy it today and you'll never need to go to a gym again!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars essential book for climbing the munros, 16 Dec 1998
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This review is from: The Munros, Scottish Mountaineering Club Hill Walkers' Guide (Hardcover)
If you're looking for a book to introduce you to the scottish munros then this is the first you should buy. It provides suggested routes and comments for all of the munros, and IMHO is the book all other guides are based on. If you're just starting out munro climbing then these are the routes to follow - other books suggest alternative routes, quite rightly, but the routes detailed by Donald Bennet are tried and tested! This book has a tendancy to kick you out of your seat and get you out to the hills! The only niggly thing is that I always seem to beat the times quoted to the first hill, but never manage to make the times quoted between hills!

In summary - buy this book and then buy others to supplement your collection!

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46 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Uneven, 26 Mar 2003
By ben tymens (evesham) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Munros: v. 1: Scottish Mountaineering Club Hillwalkers Guide (Hardcover)
This book is a typical curate's egg - good in parts. The best reason to buy a copy is the superb range of photographs of the major Munros (mountains in Scotland over 3000 feet)- these photos are enough to make you want to get on the train to Scotland, and to flick through the rest on the way. AS a coffee table book, or one to impress your friends after you've climbed a few Munros, it's brilliant. I leave my copy out just like a suburban Range Rover - it'll never get muddy, yet I hope it tells my friends that I'm an outdoors person really.

However, as a guide book for the Munros it leaves a little to be desired, and this is why I'll never get it muddy. The major failing is the quality of the sketch maps. These are not supposed to be used for navigation, and a decent 1:25,000 map should always be used for this, but more detail would make it easier to understand the route being described. This is particularly annoying if you are just starting on the Munros, and are trying to decide where to start, as is the lack of a map showing all the peaks together. Climbers who like to search out for scrambles and more exposed or multi-day routes may also find other books more useful. As for the routes described, I can't say I've tried them so can't rate any. They claim to follow obvious features, and I have no reason to doubt that they will get you up the hill. One complaint I do have is that the Inaccessible Pinnacle is indeed a rock climb, so why not mention the grading of the climb. It'd make it a lot easier to assess how hard it'll be to do it, and how much training to put in on climbing walls first.

Returning to routes, you wouldn't want this book on a hill with you either - it's too heavy for that. Write down your route, or photocopy it, but don't lug this book about with you!

I don't think it would take much to turn this book from a good one into a brilliant one. The photography is stunning (if a little biased towards winter views, which I find reveal less about the hill), and the route descriptions are useful, if limited for planning longer expeditions. All it needs are better maps, and a map of every Munro, plus possibly a few suggestions for longer routes.

At this price, it may be worth considering a cheaper guide if you're not concerned about pictures (there is a very good pocket sized one avaiable), and spending the difference on maps to help plan, but if you want to be able to see why the Munros are so climbable, then this is worth a look.

It all comes down to taste really, just like the hills - it isn't how you climb, it's enjoying it that's the key. If planning your trip will be improved by being able to see where you're going, then this will suit you. If you'd rather pour over a map, then maybe it isn't. Whatever guide you use, make sure you enjoy the hills - they really are something special.

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