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Beyond the Secret Howff
Ashie Brebner
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Description for Beyond the Secret Howff
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As a young man with a compelling interest in the great outdoors and the natural world Allister (`Ashie') Brebner spent his precious weekends in the 1950s and early '60s as a pioneer of the emerging Scottish bothying and mountaineering scene, and was one of the builders of the famed Secret Howff on Bheinn a' Bhuird in the Cairngorms. At the start of the 1960s he threw in his steady, well-paid job as a factory worker and, with another companion who did the same, started as a pioneer of mountain and nature guiding in the Scottish Highlands. Here is the unique ... Read more
As a young man with a compelling interest in the great outdoors and the natural world Allister (`Ashie') Brebner spent his precious weekends in the 1950s and early '60s as a pioneer of the emerging Scottish bothying and mountaineering scene, and was one of the builders of the famed Secret Howff on Bheinn a' Bhuird in the Cairngorms. At the start of the 1960s he threw in his steady, well-paid job as a factory worker and, with another companion who did the same, started as a pioneer of mountain and nature guiding in the Scottish Highlands. Here is the unique ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910745878
SKU
V9781910745878
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About Ashie Brebner
Allister (`Ashie') Brebner was born in 1935 in a working class tenement near Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen. He left school at 15 and trained as a motor vehicle mechanic, later working as a maintenance engineer in Aberdeen's paper industry. Participating in the explosion of outdoor activity after 1945, Ashie developed a deep love of the Scottish mountains and in 1963 ... Read more
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