the Munros
/ðə mənˈrəʊz/
/ðə mənˈrəʊz/
- the 277 mountains in Scotland which are all over 3 000 feet/913 metres high. In 1891 a man called Hugh Munro published a list of them, and since then people have had the aim of climbing all of them. Munro himself died with only one of them left to climb.
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