HOW to bag all Scotland's Munro hills was on the agenda at Cowdenbeath Rotary Club on Thursday.

Guest speaker was Lochgelly man Brian Johnston who is a popular community pharmacist in Cardenden, and is someone who has climbed every one of the 282 listed Munro hills.

Brian admitted that it took him 40 years to achieve his goal of successfully tackling Scotland's 3000 feet high hills and he was able to back up his talk with some really graphic pictures.

He said: "I have actually done 284 Munros but two were deleted from the list when the Scottish Mountaineering Club got new measuring equipment and found out that a couple had literally not measured up, but not by much!

"It all started for me in 1968 when I went up Ben Nevis, Scotland's tallest mountain and then it was a case of doing a few each year."

He explained that the name Munros came from Sir Hugh Munro who was an original member of the SMC who undertake to list the Scottish mountains and hills over 3000 feet.

Carrying out such a task in the late 19th century was not an easy one but he succeeded by the mid 1890s.

Brian became keen to climb as many as he could, starting with Ben Nevis and then working his way all over Scotland tackling hills nearer 3,000 feet then all the eight over 4,000 feet.

He added: "I done some on my own, others with small groups and others with mountaineering clubs.

"Some of the views I have been lucky enough to experience have been awe inspiring and I suppose the most hectic spell I had was when I did 11 in two days, but these were closely linked but a real challenge nonetheless. My last was in 2008."

Brian said that the climbing equipment had changed remarkably over the past four decades and was now so very light compared to when he worked his way up Ben Nevis as a 16 year-old.