Munro Moonwalker Blog
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Welcome to the website for the mountaineer, author, journalist, and occasional film star Alan Rowan. Alan has climbed the Munros three times and in 2019 completed a Full House - Munros, Munro Tops, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds, and Furths (the 3000-foot peaks in England, Ireland, and Wales).
Munro Moonwalker Blog
4d ago
WE were snaking our way up the customary Skye scree path to Sgurr nan Eag when our guide Gerry Ackroyd suddenly came to an abrupt halt. He was studying the ground carefully. Something was bothering him. One rock in particular had caught ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
4d ago
THE sunrise burned through the twilight to bathe the Cairngorms in beautiful fiery reds but it quickly proved to be filled with false promise. Within minutes it had fizzled out and flattened, a damp squib, the following skies anaemic and the sun ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
3w ago
THERE'S a sharp distinction between a mountaineer who takes photographs and a photographer who climbs mountains. I belong in the former camp: my objective is always the mountain and if I happen to snap a few good pictures along the way then ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
1M ago
FAILURE can often be the springboard to greater success and that was certainly the case on my first encounter with Creag Meagaidh. It was one of the early night forays when winter had not long packed its bags and spring seemed still ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
2M ago
HERE'S one for the algebraists. If a woman walks 18,241 kilometres and summits 2,248 hills, then how many caramel wafers does she eat during that time? Anne Butler knows the answer, but that shouldn't come as a surprise. For Anne has just ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
2M ago
STANDING in the absolute grey at the summit, being blasted by the wind and soaked by the constant driven drizzle, visibility limited to a circumference of a few feet. It felt wonderful. I'm not saying these are my favourite conditions. Far from ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
3M ago
THE view was as captivating and dramatic as always, the castellated skyline of An Teallach sparkling as the merest wisps of mist drifted playfully around the plunging faces. Taken from the summit of Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill, the highest point on this ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
3M ago
I'VE always found it fascinating to flick through the back catalogues of those who have spent a lifetime in the mountains, so it was a pleasure to sit down for a chat with a man who is in a league of his ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
4M ago
I ARRIVED at the summit of Beinn Resipol in search of a sunset spectacular but instead had to settle for the merely beautiful. No fiery red or orange skies, no horizontally aligned bars of pink or violet, just the intense white light ..read more
Munro Moonwalker Blog
4M ago
CONGRATULATIONS to Munroist Alan Haworth who reached the summit of Meall Coire na Saobhaidhe on July 20, 2023, to 'compleat' the Munro Tops. The timing was impeccable: it was 100 years to the day since the Reverend Ronald Burn touched the cairns ..read more