Alan Rowan Bücher

Moonwalker is a unique story, the memoir of a man whose love of Scotland's mountains would override his body-clock and all conventional notions of health and safety. When Alan Rowan finished his shifts as a sub-editor at a national newspaper at midnight, he knew he was too jacked up on deadline adrenaline to attempt sleep. At the same time, he was starting to worry if he would ever complete his ambition to reach the summit of every Munro in Scotland those peaks of over 3000ft. One crazy night, he decided upon a single solution to both problems. He would begin his ascents in the middle of the night, see the sun rise above the clouds and then come down the mountain just as everyone else was going up. We see Alan's transformation from desk jockey to midnight mountaineer, meet dodgy car salesmen, rabid sheepdogs, charging deer, superstitious Germans and crooked confectioners - all the while seeing the best of Scotland in a unique light. Moonwalker is funny and touching; at once a deeply personal memoir and a riotous travelogue.

The Munros may have been conquered, but that does not mean the passion for night ascents of Scotland's mountains has been diminished for Alan Rowan. Fresh from seven years of nocturnal peak-bagging in Moonwalker, Alan now has his sights set on a new mountain list, the Corbetts. Cue more midnight dashes across the country and more tales of madness and mayhem. There are car crashes and roads that don't exist; wild pigs and staring goats; the temporary loss of both feet and supermodel posties, giant chickens and snake-infested hillsides. A Mountain Before Breakfast is the second and concluding part of the Moonwalker saga. It is filled with passionate tales of Scotland's wild lands and high places, laced with a healthy dose of humour, some of it bordering on the surreal.