THE EXCITEMENT and intensity of mountaineering has always inspired great writing and now the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is looking for authors to blend their writing skills with their mountain experience for its long-running literary competition.
Entries are now open for the MCofS annual Mountain Writing Competition, which seeks the best writing – prose or poetry, fact or fiction – to emerge from the climbing and walking scene. With more and more people taking part in outdoor activities, there should be no shortage of people ready to share what makes mountains, or the act of walking or climbing so special to them.
Entries should have some connection with mountains and mountaineering, rock or ice climbing, walking or ski-mountaineering, and winners will receive a cash prize and the chance to see their entries in print in the Scottish Mountaineer, the quarterly MCofS magazine, and published on the MCofS website.