A WILD ISLAND ADVENTURE

From the streets of Scotland's second city to the summit of an island fell, in just a few short hours, Joe Pontin enjoys an exhilarating escape

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From Arran's shores, the mountain muscles upwards, its broad granite shoulders hoisting high a purple peak so proud and solitary that it seems to belong to a storybook Scotland, something half-remembered from childhood bedtimes.

Grand, romantic, beautiful, Goatfell is the first proper hill lever climbed. At 874m, it's 40m too short to be a Munro, but as your walk starts at sea level, it's no cinch, and summiting brings a whisky warm sense of achievement.

CITY TO FELL