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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Our main desire was to be genuinely successful philosophical tramps.

Back in the 1930s in Central Belt Scotland, there was a lot of heavy industry.

It was dark, it was smoky, it was dingy, if you had a job at all,

because obviously it was the time of the

depression at the same time. It was not an easy place to actually live. So lots of young men

found freedom and fun in the Scottish mountains. They basically fled the dirty, noisy cities of

Glasgow and Edinburgh and all the central belt towns by bicycle and trains at the weekends.

Their activity really paved the way for Scottish mountaineering as we know it today.

These were tough, adventurous, clever, working class guys who went on to climb in the Alps and the Himalayas.

I'm Mark Stephen and in this edition of Scotland Outdoors, we're delving into the BBC Scotland

Archive

to bring your highlights from a programme first broadcast way back in 1980.

It was called Odyssey Mountain Men.

In interviews collected by Billy Kay,

you'll hear accounts from people like Tom Weir,

Jock Nimlin, Robert Greve, Alistair Borthwick,

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