West Highland Walks One, Hamish MacInnes
West Highland Walks offers a varied collection of routes, designed to suit all walking abilities and energies, and taking travellers off the busier Highland roads (though it must be noted, this is from 1979’s definition of busy). With numerous photographs as well as memories of earlier walkers, geology, place-name etymology and Gaelic poetry, Hamish MacInnes takes you through the Scottish Highlands blending tour guiding with storytelling.
Hamish MacInnes OBE FRSGS is a Scottish mountaineer, explorer, mountain search and rescuer, author and mountain safety advisor to a number of major films. His book Call Out describes some of the more dramatic rescues undertaken in the West Highlands.
Written in 1979, this guide is geared towards a narrow group of people, and understandably. We’ve provided some further reading below — the fantastic research network Women In The Hills, and Going It Alone, an essay by Rahawa Haile on her experience as an African American woman solo-hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.
