TV broadcaster Cameron McNeish has good reason for being year late with talk
Newtonmore based outdoor writer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has apologised for being a year late with his charity lecture… but he has a pretty good excuse.
The TV presenter will now given his talk on Saturday 1 February at Boat of Garten Community Hall.
“I was scheduled to give this talk a year ago but an unforeseen appointment with a heart surgeon in Edinburgh caused me to postpone it,” Mr McNeish told the Strathy.
“Open heart surgery sorted out a heart issue and I am now back wandering the hills and wild places as I have done for over 50 years.”
Cameron’s talk entitled ‘Home & Away’ will be broken into two parts.
In the first half he will share his love of the hills and wild places of Scotland and in the second half he will concentrate on some of the mountainous areas he has visited in other parts of the world, including the United States, Nepal and the Middle East.
A former warden of Aviemore Youth Hostel Cameron became a full time outdoors writer in 1981.
He became editor of Climber Magazine in 1985 and was editor of The Great Outdoors magazine from 1990 until 2010.
Mr McNeish also had a 25-year long television career presenting such iconic series as The Edge - 100 Years of Scottish Mountaineering, Wilderness Walks, the Adventure Show and Roads Less Travelled for the BBC.
He has written 22 books on outdoor subjects and contributed his weekly McNeish At Large column in the Strathy for 32 years.
His talk is being organised by the Rotary Club of Spey Valley as a fundraiser on behalf of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
Kinrara Gin will be in attendance offering tastings of Whiteout gin and various raffle prizes have been donated by local outdoor retailers.
