The Boys' Brigade Mountaineering Club

On 1 January 2022, we commenced the ambitious task of #VirtualPeakBagging all 282 Munros, one per day, giving interpretations of their names.

Given the number of Munros, it is impossible to treat them in the same way as we have the Scottish 4000s and English and Welsh 3000s, by creating a web page for each of them with 360 degree panoramas from the summits, links to Google Earth for satellite views of them, with text providing other interesting facts about the mountains and their names.

Instead, we have created a spreadsheet that will ultimately provide interpretations (up to 4) of all of the names and we will add data to this spreadsheet each day for the next highest Munro. For completeness sake, we will start with the Scottish 4000s. Daily tweets will continue to provide what we think is the most likely interpretation of the name of the Munro, along with a photo of it, and a link to the spreadsheet which will provide further links to view the mountain on a 1:25000 Ordnance Survey map, on Google Earth, and to its entries on Wikipedia, Hill Bagging, and Walkhighlands, plus a quote from Bear Grylls. The spreadsheet will provide other interpretations of the names and help with their pronunciation can be obtained from the Wikipedia link (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) and from the Walkhighlands link (by playing an audio file).

The series of tweets can be viewed at: 2022 #Munro Tweets and the spreadsheet can be viewed fullscreen (in rows rather than columns) can be viewed at Munros Spreadsheet.

You can view our progress in virtual peak bagging the Munros on this map, with the peaks that we have bagged so far shown in blue, by clicking here and enlarging the map.