Ronald Turnbull
Ronald TurnbullRonald Turnbull is based in southern Scotland, midway between Arrochar and Ambleside. He has a particular interest in multi-day backpack trips over rough country, summit sleep-outs, and challenge walks both established and self-devised. He has completed 19 different coast-to-coast journeys across various parts of the UK and slept out without a tent on 60 different UK summits. As well as the UK hills in all their wonderful variety, he enjoys hot, rocky, and preferably Spanish-speaking corners of Europe, and makes occasional hikes through the USA.
He has won the Outdoor Writers' Guild Award for Excellence six times in four separate categories. In 1995 he won the Fell Running Association's Long Distance Trophy for a 10-day run over all the hills of Southern Scotland - a journey of 450 miles with over 90,000ft of ascent. He completed the 24-hour Bob Graham Round of 42 Lakeland summits in 1994.
His books include "Long Days in Lakeland" (Highly Commended in the Lakeland Book of the Year Award) and "The Book of the Bivvy" (on the art of tentless travel). He writes a regular feature ‘Viewpoint’ in Lakeland Walker, and also writes for TGO (The Great Outdoors), Trail, Cumbria and others. Among his most recent books, "The Riddle of Sphinx Rock" and "Life and Times of the Black Pig" are cultural biographies of Great Gable and Ben Macdui, and "Granite & Grit" is a study of the UK's mountain rocks.