Despite being a Sassenach by accident of birth, Ralph has lived in Scotland since studying psychology at Dundee University. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked in the field of commercial and educational computing, initially as a computer programmer and more recently as a lecturer at Napier University of Edinburgh. He is an experienced hillwalker who has hiked ... Read moreand backpacked extensively around the world. His series of guidebooks to the Scottish Highlands, which includes best-selling 100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains, has become one of the standard reference works on the subject Show Less