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In this hilarious, irreverent and frequently controversial book she explains the real joy of hill-walking and climbing the Munros.
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It was J Dow, Munroist number 5, who first pointed out that all four of the so-called 'compleaters' previous to himself had availed themselves of beards and that these were perhaps to be counted as improper aids. (Or else, if it wasn't J Dow, it was somebody else.)
Hence the subtitle of Muriel Gray's book; she had been up most of the Scottish 3000ers with no more assistance than a smear of lipstick and a splodge-of-vomit fleece designed as ideal camouflage for when passed out on the pavement on a Glasgow Friday night.
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