“You’re way more capable than you think you are”
Having recently completed Project282 – climbing all 282 Scottish Munros in a solo, self-supported, continuous round – adventure athlete Emily Scott is an on a new mission: to make adventure accessible for all
Words Claire Chamberlain
Running uphill? I’m so bad at it!” laughs Emily Scott. “I enjoy hiking uphill and I can go quite quickly. But when I try to run, I just feel like I’m dying.”
True as this might be, we suspect she’s being somewhat modest. The 31-year-old adventure athlete is not talking about a gentle incline in a local park. The hills she refers to happen to be Munros – Scottish mountains over 3,000ft in height. There are 282 of them and last summer Emily climbed them all. In one continuous round. Solo. Self-supported. And self-propelled. So, considering she was carrying all her kit and food, and having cycled, canoed or paddleboarded to reach each one, we can forgive her for not going hell for leather up the side of mountains.
In at the deep end
Emily boasts an impressive adventure CV. She has completed everything from marathons to adventure races and Ironman triathlons. Her adventure race in 2013 was “a proper baptism of fire” and still the toughest thing she’s done to date. Competing as a team of four, the race comprised of 10 stages and took six days, on just six hours’ sleep. “It involved kayaking, mountain biking and foot stages, but the lack of sleep – that was the killer,” she remembers.
For me, adventure’s about finding the limits of your comfort zone, seeing what you can do beyond it, and realising that you’re probably always able to do more than you think you can
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