Corrour Bothy

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About the Book:

The Scottish Highlands are famous for their bothies – unique mountain refuges that offer free basic shelter in the wilds. The oldest and most famous of these is Corrour, situated in the heart of the Cairngorms at the foot of the mighty monolith of rock known as The Devil’s Point. It has been offering shelter from the elements to walkers and climbers since the 1920s and, now renovated, remains as popular as ever.

Visitors’ books, dating from 1928, catalogue a century of comings and goings in the Cairngorms backcountry, from the hardy climbers of the 1930s to the growing numbers of walkers visiting today. Life and death, joy and tragedy, war and peace, humour and adventure, hardship and enchantment, cantankerous mice and the odd spot of rain… Corrour has seen it all.

Corrour Bothy combines a wealth of background and historical information with a treasury of evocative extracts from these visitor records, ranging from the humorous to the poetic and spiritual.

The product of painstaking research by a widely respected outdoors writer who has had a personal connection to the bothy for over 50 years, Ralph’s book is both an ode to Corrour and a celebration of a century of hillwalking and mountaineering in the Cairngorms.

Reviews: 

A fascinating social history of a century of hill-going as recorded in the visitors’ books of the titular bothy, situated in a remote spot in the Lairig Ghru. THE SCOTSMAN

About the Author:

RALPH STORER is an experienced hillwalker who has hiked extensively around the world. Despite being a Sassenach by birth, he has lived in Scotland since studying psychology at Dundee University and has a great affinity for the Highlands. As well as disappearing into the hills for a regular fix of nature, he also writes fiction, is a contributing editor to Jade, the magazine of the Guild of Erotic Artists, and produces darkwave music on his home computer.