The Perimeter

Date of walk: 3/6/19

Date of walk: 2/6/19 I thought I’d seen it all by now, but the postman’s “path” to Culnacraig passes over some of the steepest ground I’ve yet encountered. If there weren’t a path to lure me onwards, I’d have turned back. I later found out […]

Date of walk: 22/4/19 Feeling lightheaded, angry and exhausted after seven hours toiling over the pathless moors, I’m frustrated to find I’ve only progressed 10km in all that time. My last bag of rations for this eighteen-day section is down to half a broken oak […]

Date of walk: 21/4/19   >

Date of walk: 20/4/19

Date of walk: 19/4/19 I have a sinister night’s sleep tonight, having pitched my tent opposite Gruinard Island, where in 1942, biological warfare tests using‬ Anthrax took place. In 1990, after 48 years of quarantine, the island was deemed safe, and the warning signs were […]

Date of walk: 18/4/19 “They say when the Arctic convoy was here, you could walk from one side of the loch to the other there were so many ships”, a dog walker in Aultbea tells me. Judging by his attuned bearing, I ask if he’s […]

Date of walk: 19/4/19

Date of walk: 15/4/19  

Date of walk: 14/4/19

Date of walk: 13/4/19 The path from Torridon is glacier-smoothed red limestone, which often, and pleasingly, follows slabs of rock like a pavement. Leaving the mountains and wind behind, I enter the shelter of Craig Bothy, which I share with two Belgian students, a family […]

Date of walk: 11/4/19   Near Shieldaig, I wake to feel the sun heating the tent and log onto Twitter to discover a local photographer has photographed the outside of my tent and tagged me two hours previously. My thoughts revolve entirely around food. I’m […]