Climbing the Winter Munros with Mountaineer Anna Wells
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Helen Needham speaks with Anna Wells, the first woman to complete the munros in a winter
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| 0:40.8 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. |
| 0:43.9 | I'm Helen Needham. |
| 0:45.3 | Mountaineer and adventure enthusiast Anna Wells has done a number of things in her life |
| 0:50.0 | before she settled on a career as a mountain guide. |
| 0:53.8 | And as you'll hear, it's the spirit of adventure that has motivated her to achieve some |
| 0:58.3 | incredible feats, not least being the first female to complete the full Monroe round in winter. |
| 1:05.4 | That's all 282 Monroe's in the space of one season. |
| 1:10.3 | Learning about her very considered but open-minded approach was fascinating to me, |
| 1:15.6 | especially as Anna is now the mother of Baby Fergus, who she takes up mountains and camps with regularly. |
| 1:22.6 | I met up with Anna and an obligingly sleepy Fergus near Inverness, where she explained her journey so far. |
| 1:32.2 | Professionally, I've done a few different things because I was initially a doctor and then I became a engineering instructor. |
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