Munros

This page contains notes and news of direct interest to Munroists - keen hillwalkers in Scotland who keep a record of the Munros they ascend. The current list of Munroists can now be accessed using our new database. One can search for names by surname or number, and even see who has a photograph attached. Background information can be found in other pages on this site such as Hillwalking - Key Facts . Incidentally, the archaic spelling compleation is often used here, as a nod both to Izaak Walton's book 'The Compleat Angler', and a compliment to another noteworthy sport - Munro-bagging.

Those who complete (compleat!) the Munros can record this fact and receive the magic number by writing in to The Clerk of The List (See below). A list of current compleaters is published annually in the SMC Journal, and also in updated editions of Munros Tables. To facilitate the recording of your compleation, the relevant information found in the Journal page is duplicated here.

Compleated the Munros?

Notification of compleation and any amendments to the List should be sent to:

David J. Broadhead
Cul Mor
Drynie Park North
Muir of Ord
Ross-shire
IV6 7RP

Enclose a SAE to ensure a reply. Mr Broadhead, The Clerk of the List, is always interested in how long you have taken, the first and last hills, age, and plans for the future.

In return you will receive your Munroists number and details on the purchase of a tie, or brooch. Additionally, an A4 SAE should ensure that you will also receive a Compleation Certificate, suitable for framing, with your unique number, signed by the Clerk of The List. Mr Broadhead will also be pleased to hear from anyone who has completed the Corbetts. More details of this in the Journal.

We also maintain a Photographic Hall of Fame. We can scan prints or slides, or handle digital photographs. You can also email a digital pic to smc@smc.org.uk, keeping it down to a reasonable file size please (say c.500K). It is interesting for the Clerk if you include details of what the hill is and when you did it, along with your compleation number of course. If sending your pic direct please also include brief details of your compleation number, date, hill, and companions if wished (the Clerk does not pass these latter facts to the webmaster).

Please note that your compleation photograph should be that taken at your final summit – and as we have a limit of 500 pixels wide, don't be afraid of getting in close to the subject. Likewise, a wide, panorama style photo will shrink down alarmingly, so squeeze in your companions and hug the cairn!

Prints & slides will be returned if a SAE is supplied for the photographs (the Certificate is separate and requires an A4 envelope). Your entry in the list will then be linked to the photograph for the world to see! This could build up into a very interesting historic collection.

A good number of photographs are on now, and can be viewed by clicking on any name which is highlighted. Photographs from past compleaters are of course very welcome, and will be added to our site.

Please note that due to time & space constraints, we would prefer that we publish one photograph only. Unless there are mitigating circumstances (e.g. a multiple compleater, incredibly interesting shots, ) we will publish one photograph for each entry. So choose your photographer, photograph, and of course pose, very carefully! (You can send in a small choice if you wish.)

Send any such photographs to:

SMC Webmaster
Glenisla
Long Row
Menstrie
Clackmannanshire
FK11 7EA

You may also email us directly.

or include one when you register with the Clerk of the List.

As an experienced hillwalker, you will no doubt be completely toughened by the vagaries and hardships of Munro bagging. If you miss out your final hill photograph then you'll just have to repeat all the Munros again - you only have one compleation per round. It's tough at the top. (See photo below!)

Photo by Cor Timmermans, of Meall Glas on Xmas Day 1999.
Friends are Martin Snijders (No. 3299) & his son Patrick (273 M)

Send in your photograph, we don't mind if it's out of focus, in a pea-soup, with your best friend's thumb covering half the lens - it's all part of your great achievement, and we can often work wonders with the software!