Between a Loch & a Hard Place – Davy Gunn

Lifelong Glencoe resident Davy Gunn has just written a fascinating and important account of growing up in the area and his life in the local mountains as a mountaineer. Mountain guide and Mountain Rescue Team leader.

The author was born in Oban and brought up in the village of Carnoch, better known nowadays as Glencoe village. A Highland upbringing rich in community. Glencoe is an area steeped in bloody history, surrounded by mountains and cut through by the River Coe. Known for its infamous 1692 massacre, Glencoe is also famed for its mountaineering, with people coming from all over the world to climb its majestic peaks and test themselves on its rock and ice climbs. Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team has a long history of saving lives and of rescue from the West Highlands and has had a few of Scotland’s best mountaineers as members. Not least was one of the rescue team founders, Hamish MacInnes.

This book is about his upbringing, and the community of Glencoe which he grew up in, mountaineering, ski patrol, mountain medicine and mountain rescue. 

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