Baddeley's guides) to 236 (listed in Robert Hall's third edition of The Highland Sportsman and Tourist, published in 1884).
When the Scottish Mountaineering Club was formed in 1889, one of its aims was to remedy this by accurately documenting all of Scotland's mountains over 3,000 feet.
The best known Munro is Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), the highest mountain in the British Isles at . Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munro's Tables, in 1891.
Furths are mountains in England, Wales or Ireland recognized by the SMC as meeting the Munro classification. == History == Before the publication of Munro's Tables in 1891, there was much uncertainty about the number of Scottish peaks over 3,000 feet.
Sir Hugh Munro, a founding member of the Club, took on the task using his own experience as a mountaineer, as well as detailed study of the Ordnance Survey six inches to the mile (1:10,560) and one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) maps. Munro researched and produced a set of tables that were published in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal in September 1891.
The first continuous round was completed by Hamish Brown in 1974, whilst the record for the fastest continuous round is currently held by Donnie Campbell, who completed a round in just under 32 days in September 2020.
In 1992, the publication of Alan Dawson's book Relative Hills of Britain, showed that three Munro Tops not already considered summits, had a prominence of more than .
In the 1997 tables these three Munro Tops, on Beinn Alligin, Beinn Eighe and Buachaille Etive Beag, gained full Munro summit status.
The 1997 tables promoted five of these to full Munro status. 197 Munros have a topographic prominence of over and are regarded by Peakbaggers as Real Munros.
The Munros, however, lack a rigid set of criteria for inclusion, with many summits of lesser prominence listed, principally because their summits are hard to reach. During May and July 2009 the Munro Society re-surveyed several mountains that are known to be close to the 3,000 ft figure to determine their height more accurately.
On 10 September 2009 the society announced that the mountain Sgùrr nan Ceannaichean, south of Glen Carron, had a height of .
In a Summer 2011 height survey by The Munro Society, Beinn a' Chlaidheimh was found to be and thus short of the Munro mark.
On 6 September 2012, the Scottish Mountaineering Club demoted it from Munro to Corbett status.
The list has been the subject of subsequent variation and as of 26 August 2020, the Scottish Mountaineering Club has listed 282 Munros and 227 Munro Tops. "Munro bagging" is the activity of climbing all the listed Munros.
As of 2 July 2020, 6,768 people had reported completing a round.
The first continuous round was completed by Hamish Brown in 1974, whilst the record for the fastest continuous round is currently held by Donnie Campbell, who completed a round in just under 32 days in September 2020.
On 26 August 2020, the SMC confirmed that Beinn a' Chroin West Top at 938m was deleted as a Munro Top and Beinn a' Chroin East Top became the new Munro Top at 940.1m.
The summit height of Beinn a' Chroin was also changed to 941.4m. As of 26 August 2020, the Scottish Mountaineering Club lists 282 Munros and 227 Munro Tops.
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