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Climbing the Corbetts - Harder than the Munros?

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 UKH Articles 13 Jul 2020

Lorraine McCall Corbett-eering on the Rois-bheinn range

They may be smaller than the 3000-foot-plus Munros, but Corbetts yield nothing in ruggedness, quality and challenge. What's so special about Scotland's other great hill list, and what's it like to tick off all 222? We speak to three people who've done just that. 


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 Flinticus 19 Jul 2020
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Slowly eating my way into the Corbett round, while stalled at about 220 on my munro one.

This week I managed three more to bring my score to 119, but, while slowly stumbling up hill over pathless rough ground with knee high heather in the eastern Cairngorms, a full camping kit and all food finished the night before, I was trying to frame what brought me there. Ignorance, isolation, hope and indistinct memory I think!

I tend to recall most clearly the better elements of a day out, the post-walk chill out, rather than the relentless fight against gravity, entropy and nature. However, yeah, those round bumps of the Grampians...

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