donnaryan69 wrote:met local Richard who at 74 is still going strong and was on his 1502 ascent of this hill. He was also the youngest munro completer in 1969.
Good to hear Richard Wood is still going strong - he's had some health worries in recent years. He's an amazing man - I was with him when he reached 1000 ascents for Ben Tee and Sron a' Choire Ghairbh (different days - May 1998 and February 2000 respectively). He used to live in Invergarry and those (plus Meall na Teanga) were his regular hills in those days.
He wasn't the youngest Munroist, though - John Wedderburn was almost a year younger when he completed his round seven years before Richard, and the late Wilf Tauber (who only lived to 23) was in turn nine days younger than John when he completed a couple of months before Richard. Plus there's the usual proviso about unknown/unlisted Munro rounds - but even without that there were two pre-Richard people younger than him on completion.
