This was a similar assignment as last year’s Isle of Arran expedition – again for an article in the National Trust for Scotland‘s member’s magazine Scotland In Trust. This time a loftier goal; climbing a Munro, camera gear in tow. A Munro is a Scottish mountain over 3000 ft in height and Ben Lomond is known as Glasgow’s Munro for its proximity to Scotland’s largest city and ease of access from the whole of the Central Belt.
Editor Don Currie and I headed up Ben Lomond one Saturday in April and interviewed/photographed over 100 visitors on the mountain for an article celebrating Scotland’s Munros and the National Trust for Scotland’s Munro Challenge 2011.
We set off at the crack of dawn and started up Ben Lomond around 8 AM, stopping to interview and photograph fellow climbers as we went. It was a cold and tiring but thoroughly enjoyable day’s work. The sun unfortunately refused to join us for the occasion but it at least stayed dry for the 10 hours we spent up there. I was amazed at the variety of visitors. We met people of all walks of life; retirees, people and their dogs, a champion fell runner, a cancer survivor, parents and children doing a sponsored walk, tourists, stag weekenders, students, scientists and consultants. We took profiles and portraits of as many as we could and I think we only had a couple of people refuse, everyone was amazingly willing to stop and talk when they knew it was to do with the National Trust.
You can see a selection of the vistas and visitors here and look out of the feature in the Summer issue of the Scotland in Trust magazine by CMYK Design.
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