{"id":287656,"date":"2025-07-24T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287656\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:20:15","slug":"mountain-biker-completes-epic-bid-to-ride-down-all-282-munros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287656\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain biker completes epic bid to ride down all 282 Munros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megan Bonar<\/p>\n

BBC Scotland News<\/p>\n

\"GrizzlyGrizzly Munro Diaries<\/p>\n

Sean Green took his bike to the summit of every Munro in Scotland<\/p>\n

A mountain biker has completed an epic challenge to ride his bike down Scotland’s 282 Munros.<\/p>\n

Sean Green, 36, from Angus, believes he is only the second person in history to have taken a bike to the summit of all the mountains measuring 3,000ft (914m) and over.<\/p>\n

The quest, which ended in Glencoe on Saturday, took the semi-professional cyclist around eight-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n

Like all Munro baggers, Sean climbed to the summit of but with the added weight of a bike on his back.<\/p>\n

During the descent the scaffolder cycled down the narrow paths.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime<\/a> programme the challenge combined his love for the outdoors and mountain biking.<\/p>\n

Sean said: “I’ve always been in and around the mountains growing up and, whenever I was walking them, and there was a good bit of trail in front of me I’d just wish I had my bike.<\/p>\n

“Eventually I just decided I’ll start taking my bike up them.”<\/p>\n

\"GrizzlyGrizzly Munro Diaries<\/p>\n

Sean carried his bike to the top but was able to get on it on the way down<\/p>\n

Sean said he enjoyed putting himself “in the pain cave” and just focused on putting one foot in front of the other.<\/p>\n

The father-of-two said the hardest part of his mission was the logistics and the toll it took on family life.<\/p>\n

He added: “I could be up and down a Munro in sub-four hours, but even then there was likely to be a three-hour drive before and a three-hour drive after.<\/p>\n

“So even the shortest days were still 12,14 or 16 hours.”<\/p>\n

Sean was supported during one of the climbs by Paul Tattersall, who was the first man to complete the challenge in just 81 days.<\/p>\n

He said he had a few more adventures on his radar but had been warned by his wife not to take on anything as extreme.<\/p>\n

\"GrizzlyGrizzly Munro Diaries<\/p>\n

Sean said the gruelling challenge took its toll on his family life<\/p>\n

The phenomenon known as Munro bagging was inspired by Sir Hugh Munro.<\/p>\n

Munro, whose family were Scottish landowners, was born in London in 1856 and brought up at Lindertis, near Kirriemuir in Angus.<\/p>\n

While studying in Germany, he climbed in the Alps and continued his interest in climbing when he settled at the family estate in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Sir Hugh was a founder and president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club which set him the task of listing all the country’s hills of 3,000ft (914m) or more.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that around 8,000 people have officially scaled all 282 peaks – but only two men are thought to have completed it on two wheels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Bonar BBC Scotland News Grizzly Munro Diaries Sean Green took his bike to the summit of every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114907711290637531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}