Mountain Days & Bothy Nights
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Featured in World Book Day’s We Are What We Read selection.
About the Book:
'One thing we'll pit intae it is that there's mair tae it than trudging up and doon daft wet hills.'
This classic 'bothy book' celebrates everything there is to hillwalking; the people who do it, the stories they tell and the places they sleep. Where bothies came from, the legendary walkers, the mountain craftsmen and the Goretex and gaiters brigade - and the best and worst of the dosses, howffs and bothies of the Scottish hills. On its 21st anniversary, the book that tried to show the camaraderie and buccaneering spirit of Scottish hillwalking in the early days has now become a part of the legends of the hills. Still likely to inspire you to get out there with a sleeping bag and a hipflask, this new edition brings a bit of mountaineering history to the modern Munro bagger. The climbers dossing down under the corries of Lochnagar may have changed the dress, politics and equipment, but the mountains and the stories are timeless.
Dave Brown and Ian R. Mitchell won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 1991 for A View from the Ridge, the sequel to Mountain Days & Bothy Nights.
Reviews:
The ideal book for nostalgic hillwalkers and climbers of the '60s, even just the armchair and public house variety... humorous, entertaining, informative, written by two men with obvious expertise, knowledge and love of their subject. SCOTS INDEPENDENT
The doings, sayings, incongruities and idiosyncracies of the denizens of the bothy underworld... An authentic picture of this part of the climbing scene in latter-day Scotland, which like any good picture, will increase in charm over the years. IAIN SMART, SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEERING CLUB JOURNAL
[This] must be the only complete dosser's guide ever put together. ALISTAIR BORTHWICK, author of the immortal 1930s classic, Always a Little Further
About the Author:
DAVE BROWN started climbing in 1960, spending much of his formative years in the Trossachs, the Arrochar Alps and Glencoe, where he met some of the great characters of the early climbing scene. He worked for the Colorado Outward Bound School as a senior instructor and lator with the British Columbia Outward School. As well as articles in the climbing press, Dave has also co-authored (with Ian) the 1991 Boardman-Tasker Prize winning book of climbing tales, A View from the Ridge, recently re-published by Luath Press.
IAN R MITCHELL is a historian, who gave up teaching to devote himself to writing full time. After graduating from university in his native Aberdeen in 1973, Ian did postgraduate research at Leeds, followed by a British Council scholarship to study in Berlin. The author of articles in learned journals, and of a standard textbook on Bismarck, Ian taught for over 20 years at Clydebank College, mainly on German history. Increasingly interested in Scottish history and heritage, and a lifelong hillwalker, Ian has produced several other books, including Scotland’s Mountains before the Mountaineers, a pre-history of explorations and ascents in the Scottish mountains. Ian also writes frequently on outdoor matters for climbing journals and the general media. In addition, he gives talks and slide shows on his books.