A Munro is a Scottish mountain above 3,000 ft
or 914.4m. They take their collective name from Sir Hugh Munro
who first published his tables in 1891, identifying around
280 peaks when the conventional wisdom had always been that
there were probably only 30 mountains in Scotland above 3000ft.
The Ordnance Survey, which now uses metres exclusively
on its maps, has re-adjusted a number of peaks that fall on
or about the 914m mark and the total of Munros now is generally
set at 284.
Mountain guides can be arranged from the hotel
to lead walkers up these mountains - some of the Munros require
specialist equipment and knowledge.
