Since taking early retirement from his career as a physics and sports teacher, Brian Johnson has found time for three through-hikes of the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2700-mile round-Britain walk, three hikes across the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, a hike along the Via de la Plata from Seville to Santiago, a single summer ‘compleation’ of the Munros (Scotland’s 3000ft mountains) and has now reclimbed all the Corbetts while researching this guide. He has also completed a 2200-mile cycle tour of Spain and France and done multi-week canoe tours in Sweden, France, Spain and Portugal.

In his younger days, Brian’s main sport was orienteering. He competed at a high level and coached both Bishop Wordsworth’s School and South-West Junior Orienteering Squads. He also surveyed and drew many orienteering maps. He has walked and climbed extensively in summer and winter conditions in Britain, the Alps, the Pyrenees and California, often leading school groups.

As a fanatical sportsman and games player, Brian competed to a high level in cricket, hockey, bridge and chess. His crowning achievement was winning the 1995/96 World Amateur Chess Championships.

Other Cicerone guides by the author

The Pacific Crest Trail

Walking the Corbetts Volume 1: South of the Great Glen

First edition 2013

ISBN: 978 1 85284 653 4

Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI

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Front cover: Creag a’Chumhaing buttress on Meall Gorm, Applecross (Route 56)

CONTENTS

What are the Corbetts?