When second is best

DOUBLE MUNRO SCRAMBLE

Skip Wales’ highest peak and head for the runner-up, CARNEDD LLEWELYN . It’s a mountain with history, with attitude, with views, and with more than a few stories to tell.

From invisible hills to a mountain that might make you mad...

Jim Perrin remembers the giant of Mull, an elegant outlier leaning seaward

BEN HOPE’S status as the most northern Munro on the British Isles is an irresistible draw. It’s a long way to go, true, but this scramble to its summit more than makes up for the effort spent getting there.

■ Distance: 5½ miles/8.5km ■ Time: 6-7hours ■Grade: ...