Other News

• Life & Limb Lecture By Jamie Andrews
• International Mountain Literature Festival
• Munro Society News
• Big Trek
• Aviemore Walking Festival
• Glen Affric Walking Festival

‘Life and Limb’
An Illustrated Talk by Jamie Andrew

With Guest Syd Croggie

Raffle with Great Prizes

13^th April 2004 7.30pm
The Tower Lecture Theatre
University of Dundee

The remarkable story of one man’s resilience not to give in to his injuries, and return to a full and active life in his beloved mountains.
Tickets £5 from:
TISO 22 Whitehall Street Dundee Tel:01382 221 153
Joy Ingram Tel: 01382 668 193

ON SALE: ‘Life and Limb’ by Jamie Andew

Presented by Soroptimist International of Dundee and TISO
In aid of Dundee City Disability Sport

17th International Festival of Mountain Literature

Bretton Hall Campus
University of Leeds
27th March 2004

'The Best Writers on the Best Books’

Royal Robbins and Joe Fitschen: ‘The best US climbing writer’
Andy Kirkpatrick: a commissioned new work
Kathryn Bridge: Phyllis Munday
Dermot Somers: Collected Short Stories
Jamie Andrew: Life and Limb
David Hopkins: Boardman Tasker adjudication and discussion
Reading from winning author
Judges announce winner of the High/Festival Writing Competition
Reading of winning entry
Sandra Noel: Everest Pioneer
Royal Robbins: A Golden Age in the Range of Light

Sponsored by High, Bâton Wicks, The Ernest Press, Cicerone Press, Sutton Publishing, Canadian High Commission, Climbers’ Club

Tickets are £25 available from Terry Gifford, University of Leeds, Bretton Hall Campus, Wakefield WF4 4LG. Makes cheques payable to “University of Leeds”. Further info from Linda Smith 0113 343 9022 or email t.Gifford@leeds.ac.uk

Munro Society News

AGM & Annual Lecture
Saturday 25^th April 2004
University of Stirling

A morning AGM is followed by a full programme of lectures including:

• A screening of the “Mountain Paths” Video by Jim Closs
• Ian R Mitchell talking on The Reverend AE Robertson
• A film from “The Climbers” series
• “The First Hunrded Munroists by Dave Hewitt.
• The Munro Society’s Mountain Quality Indicators will be launched and “An Evening with Jim Curran” rounds off the day

Tickets cost £5 each for the afternoon and evening sessions, Advanced postal bookings are available from Dr A Dutton, 5 Deer Park, Pitcairnfield, Perth PH1 3SP. Tickets are also available from Tiso shop Stirling.

3,000^th Munroist
Mr Michael Urqhuart completed the round on An Socach above Glen Affric on the 23^rd August 2003 to be the 3,000^th recorded Munroist completer. Irvine Butterfield (left), Monro Society President, Presented him with a celebratory plaque.

Mountain Paths Video by Jim Closs
MCofS Members and Member Clubs can obtain a copy of the Video for Free Hire from the MCofS Library (kindly donated by The Munro Society). Please contact Pet at the office to make arrangements (a small charge will be made for p&p).

The Big Issue Scotland (International)

Trek the Hills for those that live on the streets

Carpathian Alps. Romania
28^th May – 4^th June

Visit Transylvania and trek the stunning Carpathian Alps whilst raising funds for BISI projects that tackle homelessness and poverty. A demanding trek suitable for those with a good degree of fitness.

For further details contact: Siubhan O’Rourke, Big Trek 2004, BISI, 71 Oxford Street, Glasgow G5 9EP. Tel: 0141 418 7000. Email: info@big-trek.co.uk. Weebsite: http://www.big-trek.co.uk/

AVIEMORE WALKING FESTIVAL

Sat 8th to Sun 16th May 2004

The second Aviemore Walking Festival offers guided graded walks in beautiful scenery & wildlife in good Spring weather and clear air. You will walk in the glens, foothills and at over 4,000 feet in the Cairngorms amid sparkling lochs, fragrant pine forests and open moors.

Special for this year are the five highest Scottish mountains and the Speyside Way long distance path. This is in addition to a full range of several graded guided walks each day and a full programme of evening talks, entertainment, and highland hospitality.

Further details available from Dept WWW, Aviemore Business Assoc, PO Box 5349, Aviemore, PH22 1YG. http://www.aviemorewalking.com/

 

GLEN AFFRIC WALKING FESTIVAL

5-7^th June

Based in the Strathglass surrounding Glens of Affric, Cannich, Strathfarrar and Urquhart, the 3 day programme will include over 25 guided walks graded easy/moderate to strenuous, 11 of which being high level hill walks with numerous Munros, Corbetts and Grahams and one for brushing up your navigation skills.

The area comprises two National Nature Reserves and one Bird Reserve and so low level walks, some of which are suitable for families, will concentrate on conservation, native Caledonian Pine forest regeneration, land management, habitat restoration, fauna and flora and local archaeology/heritage. All guides are specialists and, as well as ensuring that the correct routes are followed, they will provide interesting and captivating information.

Evening entertainment of two evening illustrated talks highlighting the ecological importance and beauty of Glen Affric with particular emphasis on the primeval Caledonian Pine woodland.

Supported by Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Trees for Life, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Strathglass Heritage and of professional mountain guides.

For further details, programme and booking form, contact: Glen Affric Walking Festival, c/o Pierre Lebrun, Shenval, Glen Urquhart, IV63 6TW, tel/fax: 01456 476 363 or Ian Mure, tel: 01456 415 251, Email: LebrunShenval@hotmail.com or see http://www.glenaffric.info/