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Adrenaline junkies searching for their next death-defying destination are being told exactly where to head.

Adrenaline junkies searching for their next death-defying destination are being told exactly where to head.

Where do Scotland’s ‘king of fish’ go when they leave the river of their birth – and what happens to them?

A shortened version of our columnist Tim Porteus’s new book, Road of Legends, is exclusively serialised each week in the Courier. Here is the next mini-chapter. THE road north from Tyndrum to Bridge of Orchy tingles the senses. The way is guarded by mountains and as they entered the pass between them, Finn looked up towards the giant shoulder of Beinn Odhar. It’s looming presence made the walkers on the nearby West Highland Way look like tiny ants. Then Beinn Dorain took centre stage. “Wow, what a view can we stop aunty, for a photo for my mum?”

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