Of Bens, Glens and Rambling Auld Men - Softcover

Scott, Robert; Nicol, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784623733 ISBN 13: 9781784623739

Verlag: Troubador Publishing, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This starts with the early post WWII years when Robert and Gordon, as young men, were first attracted to the outdoors. They hiked and climbed in the mountains of the ScottishHighlands and often slept in caves, barns, bothies and tents in both summer and winter. They made friends and climbed with many of the emerging group of mainly working class rock climbers who were pioneering ascents of the cliffs and gullies in Glencoe and Ben Nevis at that time. Their week-end adventures had them ranging across the wild moors, glens and mountains in all seasons and in all weathers. As the years passed, their lives changed. One became a youth hostel warden in N.W. Scotland, later becoming a gamekeeper and ghillie on an estate in Assynt. The other went overseas as a teacher, first to Algeria then in Saudi Arabia and finally Brunei S.E. Asia, where he stayed for nearly thirty years. The two men lost touch with each other for over forty years. At that point they met again and, while re-calling their youthful ramblings and catching up on one another’s later adventures, came to realise the uniqueness of their lives. From these two kinds of rambling comes this fascinating book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Troubador Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784623733
• ISBN 13: 9781784623739
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
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