Undiscovered Scotland: Climbs on rock, snow and ice

‘Treasures of reality yet unknown await discovery among inaccessible peaks at the ends of the earth, still more on the old and familiar hills at our very doorstep, most of all within each mountaineer. The truth is that in getting to know mountains he gets to know himself.’If mountaineering books are to be measured by their inspirational value, then Undiscovered Scotland is a must-read for all climbers and walkers.W.H. Murray explores the most challenging and remote routes of Scottish mountaineering, venturing into the heart of these wild hills. The white magnetism of winter moonlight and the still peace of evenings spent in wilderness are depictions of mountains that have been traversed by few, but which hold treasures to delight the many.Undiscovered Scotland is a manifesto for bold adventures into the unknown, yet is suffused with the comradeship of mountain days. These are the stories of adventures that will inspire, encourage and salve the mind.

Table of Contents:
1. The Undiscovered Country 2. The First Day on Buachaille 3. The Great Gully of Garbh Bheinn 4. Affric 5. Twisting Gully 6. Night and Morning on the Mountains 7. Winter Days in Coire nan Lochan 8. The Leac Mhor 9. The Forgotten Cliff of Aonach Dubh 10. Rock-climbing in Rum 11. Coir-Uisg 12. Tournament on Ice 13. The Six Days Challenge 14. Gale Winds and Gabbro 15. Rosa Pinnacle 16. The Traverse of Liathach 17. The Moor of Rannoch 18. Ben Nevis by the North-East Buttress 19. Benalder Forest 20. Castle Buttress 21. An Teallach and Dundonnell Forest 22. Effects of Mountaineering on Men Photographs and diagrams

About the Author :
W.H. Murray was born in Liverpool in 1913, but two years later his father was killed at Gallipoli. The family moved back to Glasgow where Murray spent his childhood, school and college years before beginning a career in banking. He made his first climbs in 1934 and later joined a talented group of climbers in the Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland. This instigated his lifelong love of Scottish winter climbing, and it was with this set of young innovators that Murray began to undertake the adventures that he eventually transcribed on Red Cross toilet paper as a prisoner of war. After returning to Britain from the camps, Murray once more began to climb with undamaged fervency, and later took part on key Himalayan expeditions of the 1950s. In 1951 Murray was on the critical reconnaissance that established a route up Everest via the Khumbu Icefall by which the summit of Mount Everest would eventually be reached. Marrying happily, Murray built a career as a writer and conservationist, writing Highland Landscape, a counsel of protection for the National Trust of Scotland. Murray died in 1996, and his autobiography, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, was published posthumously.