It is suspected he suffered a heart attack. His family erected a cairn on the spot he died. (latitude 56°51.899’ N; longitude 05°46.195’W). Selected publications Red Peak: A Personal Account of the British Soviet Expedition 1962 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964, 256 pp, with endpaper maps, 12pp b/w & 4pp of colour plates) Scottish Mountains on Ski (1970) The Island of Skye (1975) With Friends in High Places (2004) References 1926 births 2007 deaths Academics of the University of Strathclyde Scottish scientists Scottish mountain climbers Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Human ecologists Scottish National Party politicians