Climbing This Mountain Changed My Life

Nothing worth doing was ever easy

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When I was twenty years old, I went backpacking in the Scottish Highlands for the first time and climbed my first mountain. It changed my life.

I’d been inspired to make the trip by a work colleague, who’d regaled me with tales of hiking through the highlands and staying each night in isolated stone bothies…