In reply to Clauso:
> (In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC)
>
> Nice article, but re. the comment "He's deliciously deflating about Murray's overblown description (in 'Mountaineering in Scotland') of a pitch on the Clachaig Gully in Glencoe.": perhaps A.H. Murray might be permitted a bit of leeway, as far as any 'overblown description' is concerned, given that he wrote 'Mountaineering in Scotland' many years after he'd climbed the routes in question and, indeed, while he was being half-starved to death as a prisoner of war in a variety of camps across Europe!?! In fact, he wrote it not once, but twice, on toilet paper; the first copy having been confiscated by the Gestapo.
Yes, Darren, that is the great true story ... yet I've always found his writing just too romantic for my taste - and that's saying something! Because it's historical he can get away with it, but no modern writer could (i.e. they'd have huge difficulty getting a publisher, I suspect).
