I’m Adeel. I’m an accountant, a son, a husband and a father of three, living in Leeds. Most of my working week is spent behind a desk. But whenever I get the opportunity, I would rather be outside — running, cycling, hiking, camping or simply somewhere far away from the noise of everyday life.
I haven’t grown up as a mountaineer, and I don’t have decades of experience in the Scottish hills. This project starts from a much simpler place: I enjoy challenging myself, I love being in the mountains, and I want to find out just how far that can take me.
How It Started
Over the last few years, the outdoors gradually became a bigger part of my life.
I started taking on longer runs, rides and hikes. I climbed mountains around the UK, spent time hiking in Pakistan, and in 2026 completed the Lakeland 50 — fifty miles through the Lake District.
None of these experiences made me an expert. If anything, they showed me how much there is still to learn.
Navigation. Weather. Winter conditions. Equipment. Fitness. Decision-making. Knowing when to continue and, perhaps more importantly, knowing when to turn around.
That is where my journey through the Munros begins.
Why 282?
Scotland has 282 Munros — mountains at least 3,000 feet high that appear on the official Scottish Mountaineering Club list.
I want to climb every one of them.
Not as quickly as possible and not simply to tick 282 names off a list.
I expect this project to take years. I’ll travel north from Leeds, often for several days at a time, linking mountains together where it makes sense, camping when practical and gradually building my experience across different parts of Scotland and different seasons.
Some days will probably be spectacular.
Others will involve rain, cloud, wind, tired legs, wrong decisions and mountains I don’t manage to summit.
Those days are part of the journey too.
Mountain 1 to Mountain 282
One of the things that interests me most isn’t what happens on any particular summit.
It’s what happens between the first one and the last.
I want to see what someone can learn by spending years travelling through the Scottish mountains — through summer days, winter conditions, long approaches, failed attempts and hundreds of kilometres on foot.
The person who eventually stands on Munro number 282 should have considerably more experience than the person writing this page today.
Documenting that transformation is part of the project.
Beyond 282
The Munros aren’t necessarily the final destination.
My longer-term ambition is to develop the fitness, mountain judgement and technical skills required for increasingly serious mountain environments. There are bigger objectives I would love to attempt one day, including high-altitude mountains in Pakistan.
But there is no shortcut from where I am today to those mountains.
For now, the challenge is Scotland.
One mountain at a time.
One lesson at a time.
One story at a time.
282 mountains. 282 stories. One journey.