W. H. Murray

William Hutchison Murray (18 March 1913-19 March 1996) was a Scottish mountaineer and writer, one of a group of active mountain climbers , mainly from Clydeside, before and just after World War II. Murray did much of his most influential...

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...leading mountain search and rescuer, author and advisor. He is the leading Scottish winter mountaineer of the generation following W. H. Murray. MacInnes was born in Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland in 1930. He...

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...prior to World War II. He put up many serious routes on Ben Nevis and around, and tutored amongst others the younger W. H. Murray. His 'Scottish Climbs' is still well regarded. One of his 'first ascents' was 'Long Climb' (Bell & J. D. B....

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...himself in 1829. Wordsworth, however, found the volume of tourism disappointing. Writing more than a century later the writer W. H. Murray agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the "character and atmosphere", and rather...

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...the summer heatwave of 1949 he crossed Rannoch Moor naked, bathing in Loch Laidon as he went; on a sweaty June expedition in the Cuillin of Skye he launched himself down the scree-shod foot of An Stac, stripped and plunged into Loch Coire...

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