The Perimeter

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 […]

Date of walk: 10/4/19  

Date of walk: 9/4/19

Date of walk: 8/4/19   After the road ends, I carry on into the moorland and check the depth of a bog ahead of me with my trekking pole and am alarmed when it sinks without resistance down to my hand. It’s the confusing spring […]

Date of walk: 7/4/19  

Date of walk: 18/3/19    

Date of walk: 17/3/19  

Date of walk: 16/3/19 In Kyle hotel, the first bed in many nights, I’m surprised to find my hand is too cold to move as I try to hold the pen to check-in. It’s Friday night, and the bar is heaving with a kilted and […]

Date of walk: 15/3/19 I’m excited to get some time with Eilean Donan, the most iconic Scottish island castle. I camp on the opposite shore to photograph it at dawn and dusk. The next day I walk ten hours around Loch Duich and end up […]