Ronald Turnbull

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Author of guidebooks to the Cairngorms, Ben Nevis & Glencoe, the Galloway Hills the Jurassic Coast and others; and 'The Book of the Bivvy'. An index of my 'Classic Literature' pieces for UKH/UKC is at https://www.ronaldturnbull.co.uk/articles/classics/classics.html . If you enjoy what I write here, you might also like my weekly Substack essays on all matters mountainous at https://aboutmountains.substack.com/ .

Location
Lowther Hills, Dumfriesshire

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• My neighbour Joseph Thomson explores the Atlas 14-Feb-24
• Dying on the Eiger - Part 2: the Mittellegi Ridge 07-Feb-24
• A short history of dying on the Eiger 31-Jan-24
• Lost on Rannoch Moor 24-Jan-24
• Ladies of Lakeland 17-Jan-24
• The Mountains and the Sea 10-Jan-24
• Coire na Caime, Liathach 03-Jan-24
• The 18th Century Art of Landscape Appreciation 27-Dec-23
• Annapurna 1950 vs Everest 1953 20-Dec-23
• T S Eliot on Rannoch Moor 13-Dec-23

Personal Webpage
https://www.ronaldturnbull.co.uk

Route Cards by Ronald Turnbull

• The Cheviot: Border Ridge and Hen Hole biggie Feb/2023
• Windy Gyle from Coquetdale Jan/2023
• Minnigaffs from Loch Trool Nov/2022
• Loch Enoch, Galloway Hills Aug/2022

Articles by Ronald Turnbull

• Mountain Literature Classics: Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog Feb/2024
• Mountain Literature Classics: South Col by Wilfrid Noyce Jan/2024
• My Favourite Map: Geology Plus Glaciers Dec/2023
• Mountain Literature Classics: Free Solo with Alex Honnold Nov/2023
• Mountain Literature Classics: That Untravelled World by Eric Shipton Aug/2023
• Mountain Literature Classics: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight May/2023
• Mountain Literature Classics: Menlove Mar/2023
• Mini Guide: The Cheviots Feb/2023
• Mountain Literature Classics: Basho - Narrow Road to the Deep North Jan/2023
• Mountain Literature Classics: Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray Nov/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Mont Blanc, Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni Oct/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Oct/2022
• Mini Guide: The Galloway Hills Sep/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Walking with Jane Austen Aug/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Walking Home by Simon Armitage Jul/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy Jul/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: the Alpine Drawings of Samivel Jun/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: The Shining Mountain May/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Between a Rock and a Hard Place May/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: The Playground of Europe by Leslie Stephen Apr/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: 1996 Everest Disaster Trilogy Mar/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: South by Sir Ernest Shackleton Mar/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Space Below my Feet by Gwen Moffat Feb/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Mountains with a Difference by Geoffrey Winthrop Young Jan/2022
• Mountain Literature Classics: Queen Victoria's Highland Journal Dec/2021
• Mountain Literature Classics: Feeding the Rat Sep/2021
• Mountain Literature Classics: The Ridiculous Mountains by GJF Dutton Sep/2021
• National Parks without the crowds: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Aug/2021
• Nights in Green Nylon: The Ups and Downs of Bivvy Life Jul/2021
• Mountain Literature Classics: Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth Jul/2021
• Mountain Literature Classics: A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor Apr/2021
• Short Distance Walking on the Annandale Way Nov/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: The Night Climbers of Cambridge Oct/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: Travels With a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson Oct/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: Climbing Days by Dorothy Pilley Sep/2020
• Scotland's Border Country – Where Hill Running's Been in Vogue for 500 Years Aug/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: Regions of the Heart Jul/2020
• Literature Classics: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning Jun/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: Starlight and Storm Jun/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: The Big Walks May/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: No Picnic on Mount Kenya Apr/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes Apr/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods Feb/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: My Climbs in the Alps & Caucasus by Albert Mummery Jan/2020
• Mountain Literature Classics: The Tarns of Lakeland by W Heaton Cooper Dec/2019
• Hut-to-Hut in Austria Nov/2019
• Lakes with Legends Oct/2019
• Mountain Literature Classics: The First Fifty by Muriel Gray Oct/2019
• Mountain Literature Classics: One Man's Mountains by Tom Patey Sep/2019
• Mountain Literature Classics: Always a Little Further by Alastair Borthwick Aug/2019
• The Galloway Hills: Small but Surprising Aug/2019
• Mountain Literature Classics: Fiction With Hills In Jul/2019
• Mountain Literature Classics: Coleridge Among the Lakes & Mountains Jun/2019
• What's on My Mountain Bookshelf? Ronald Turnbull Jun/2016
• John Muir - Why Does He Matter? Apr/2014
• Along the Anglo-Scottish Border Oct/2013
• Humans, History and the Hill Jun/2011

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