Please read this page before proceeding to the rules and entry system at the bottom.

The Highlander Mountain Marathon is an event for people with a sense of adventure. It follows a traditional mountain marathon format in which teams of two navigate their way around a two-day course in mountainous terrain carrying all provisions and equipment necessary for an overnight camp. A mandatory kit list is specified by the organisers. A range of courses are available which enables the event to cater for elite athletes and yet remain inclusive to a wide spectrum of competitors with a reasonable level of fitness and some good hill experience. ie competitors must be able to navigate in bad weather over rough ground as mountain areas in the British Isles can have very unpredictable and severe weather and the terrain can be very difficult. Should you become aware of the location by accident, we are relying on you to keep it yourself and under no circumstances to spoil the surprise for others by 'spouting off'. Anyone found to be passing this information on will have their entry fee returned and be barred from future events.

Arriving on Saturday Morning

We think that you will enjoy the ambience of the event more if you are able to arrive on Friday. However, if this is not possible, the parking area and registration will be open on Saturday morning. If you are registering on Friday and using accommodation away from the Event Centre or not arriving until Saturday morning, most of you will be given start times nearer to 09:00.

Glasgow/Edinburgh

Do not confuse Glasgow Airport with Prestwick Airport which is one hour further south. If you need to take a flight home from Edinburgh or Glasgow, allow five hours to drive there.

Fly Drive

The deals available from budget airlines are excellent. We have a special page on the website devoted to helping those who arrive by plane on Friday to get in touch with others to share transport. Useful websites are:

www4.flybe.com		www.flybmi.co
www.ryanair.co.uk		www.britishairways.com
www.easyjet.com

Rules and Entry Form

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Organising Team

The crew at Handsonevents are kindly assisted and advised by:

Martin Stone

Martin has organised the LAMM for the past 14 years. It is widely recognised as the most professionally run event in the calendar. He also runs Sportident..

Ray Wilby - Planner

Ray has worked on the resurvey of the Ordnance Survey mapping of the Highlands for 35 years. He has been the main organiser of the Knockfarrel Hill Race for the past 10 years and assists with three other hill and cross country races. He has completed six mountain marathons.

Alec Keith - Controller

Alec is an Inverness solicitor, keen hillwalker, mountaineer, orienteer and hill runner. He has rock/ice climbed widely in Scotland. He has conquered all the Munros (1988) and Corbetts (1991). He has also climbed in the Alps, Himalayas and Andes. He has completed 11 LAMMs (past winner B,A and Elite courses) and 13 KIMMs.

He has run the Highland Cross 4 times and the Great Wilderness Challenge 13 times (5 times winner). Finally, he has competed 6 times in the Hebridean Challenge 3 times winner, 3 times runner up.

Ian Hay (Planner)

Ian worked with the Ordnance Survey for 35 years in the Highlands and spent a lot of his working life in the hills.

He orienteered extensively through the 1980’s and planned numerous events.

In the late 80’s he started doing Mountain Marathons and hill races and was one of the founder members of Highland Hill Runners.

He is still fully active in the hills and enjoys planning challenging courses for the “Highlander”.

General Information