Top 10 Round

The brainchild of Carnethy HRC's John Hammond, who planned it and then ran it over 30th May to 4th June 2016, the addition of Ben Lawers to the nine four-thousanders and requirement to complete a full loop rather than point-to-point to make a round of Scotland's 10 highest peaks significantly increases the challenge, with a hefty total distance of 377km and ascent of 10,057m covered in an actual running time of 52 hours 13 minutes spread over those dates. While we're aware of this 'Top 10' having been done before in a day as a linear route with driving between peaks (and therefore ineligible for these pages), we believe this to be the first time they've been linked into one continuous run.

You can read John's preliminary account at http://carnethy.com/2016/06/highest-10-round-30516-to-4616/ and hopefully we'll get some more information up here too sometime in case anyone wants to challenge his total time of 5 days 5 hours 56 minute 47 seconds!

Page new 22nd July 2016