Climbing all 282 Munros in 2025 to support survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

282 Munros, 2,000 kilometres, 140,000 metres of ascent

The Munros Project

  • Why?

    Ricky has experienced lifelong severe anxiety that has signifcantly affected every area of his life. He has suffered low self-esteem, social isolation, self-sabotage & suicidal thoughts. For the past 20 years he's been on a journey of self-awareness to understand the root cause and try to overcome his anxiety. In late 2020, he suffered flashbacks of childhood sexual abuse. In 2021, he was supported by the Moira Anderson Foundation (MAF) to help him better understand and manage his anxiety. MAF are dedicated to supporting children and adults affected by childhood sexual abuse.

    Learn More about MAF

  • How?

    Ricky has been climbing mountains for over 30 years. He's a qualified Mountain Leader & has guided thousands of clients on the UK's highest peaks. His mountain adventures & expeditions have had a dramatic effect on transforming his mindset. Now, he plans to climb every Munro within 12 months to support other survivors of childhood sexual abuse. A Munro is a mountain in Scotland over 3,000ft (914m) and there are 282 scattered all over Scotland, from Ben Lomond in the South to Ben Hope in the north, and Sgurr na Banachdich in the west to Mount Keen in the east.

    learn more about the munros

  • When?

    Ricky's attempt begins on New Year's Day 2025 and he plans to climb all 282 Munros by 31st December 2025. That means that throughout 2025 he'll need to climb a Munro on average every 1.3 days while holding down a full-time job! Those who climb all the summits are known as 'compleaters', with completions recorded with the Scottish Mountaineering Club. Compleaters also become eligible to join The Munro Society. If he completes his ambitious task, he will join the currently over 6,000 people who have registered as ‘compleaters’, and he hopes to raise as much as possible for MAF.

    Donate on JustGiving

The Plan

Together we can change survivors’ lives.

282 Munros, 3,000 kilometres, 140,000 metres of ascent

There are a number of Munros that can be climbed in combination with others on the same day for Multi-Munro outings. Ricky plans to focus on these longer days during the main summer season from start of May to end of September during longer daylight hours and (hopefully) better weather. These longer routes typically include a big climb followed by a series of smaller ascents that link Munros in a chain. These include:

Other than this he’ll choose which peaks to climb on weekends on holidays depending on the best weather forecast. Ricky works fulltime compressed hours Monday to Thursday in a remote role for a global humanitarian charity, so in theory he has Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays available to work his way through the Munros in 2025. Nevertheless, it will require extraordinary commitment & a lot of good luck to ‘compleat’ the Munros on time.

You can track Ricky’s progress while he’s on the hills using the live tracker link on the map above/left. You can view a map of all 282 Munros on the interactive map below.

Ricky will be posting stories & posts regularly on The Munros Project instagram so please do consider following & sharing those updates to help extend the project reach and maximise the fundraising for MAF to help them support many more survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Munros Map

Support The Munros Project

While the primary focus of The Munros Project is to raise as much as possible for the Moira Anderson Foundation to help survivors of childhood sexual abuse, you can also support the project directly to help Ricky achieve his goal of climbing all 282 Munros in 2025.

Click on the button below if you’d like to make a small financial contribution to help offset the project costs.

 FAQs

  • The Munros – and the 227 subsidiary ‘Tops’ – were originally listed by Sir Hugh Munro, who published his first tables of mountains over 3,000 feet in 1891. Sir Hugh did not manage to complete an ascent of all the summits on his list; instead the Rev. A. E Robertson became the first person to complete 'The Munros' in 1901. Now, over a hundred years later, there are over 6,000 people who have registered as ‘compleaters’, with completions recorded with the Scottish Mountaineering Club. Compleaters also become eligible to join The Munro Society.

  • The Munros are scattered all over Scotland, from Ben Lomond in the South to Ben Hope in the north, and Sgurr na Banachdich in the west to Mount Keen in the east.

  • The effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse are many and varied and affect survivors in different ways. Some of the effects include:

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Substance abuse

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.