30 November 1926: Chancellor of the exchequer so busy with his argument that he fails to notice that he’s heading uphill
A Highland ghillie’s story of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was told to the annual gathering of the Cairngorm Club at Aberdeen by the Rev AE Robertson, of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. Mr. Churchill (said Mr. Robertson) had gone to visit the historic cave in the wild recesses of the Ceannacroc Forest, Glenmoriston, Inverness-shire, where Prince Charlie sought refuge when hard beset after Culloden. The Highland ghillie who accompanied Mr. Churchill on the expedition told his experience thus:
“Mr. Churchill was a very clever gentleman, a grand speaker, but rather heavy on his legs on the high hills. He was very anxious to see the cave, and I took him to the cave over the ram along the ridge and down into the corrie. I had a rifle with me, for I hoped the gentleman would be able to get a stag after he had seen the cave.
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