On 21 January 2006 my wife and I wandered to the top of Pressendye, a lovely hill a few miles north of Aboyne, accompanied by some friends and several dogs, including our 15-year-old border terrier Pepper (carried in my rucksack for most of the way). This was the last of the Grahams. I had previously climbed all the Munros, Munro Tops, Corbetts, Welsh and English Furths, and about half the Donalds. My guess is that there isn't another German who has managed this.
However, I did not miss out on peaks and climbs further afield, having made ascents of almost 500 alpine peaks higher than 3000 metres (many by hard and demanding rock and ice climbs), over 50 peaks higher than 4000 metres in the Alps, South America and central Asia, some 5000m peaks, Aconcagua (6959m) in Argentina by the Polaco route, and Pik Lenin (7134m) on the border of Kyrgysztan and Tajikistan. I am in hot hot Queensland until May and unsure what my first Marilyn was, and even more unsure what the 600th was, but I could go through my fairly accurate diaries once back in Kilmun and let you know for a future newsletter.
