Scottish Mountain Rescue provide an invaluable service to all outdoors fans.  The teams, spread across Scotland, are all manned by volunteers and require a lot of expensive equipment and training. They are funded mostly by donations and fund-raising.

This September, an Isle of Skye Whisky Munro Challenge, supported by Tiso outdoors retailer, is calling on as many people as possible to walk a Munro or two and raise funds for the SMR. I wrote about the charity fund-raisier and also spoke to Chris Tiso, who plans to take part in the challenge.

Read my Sunday Mail Munro Challenge article: Left and right