_523 WHM100: Sport "Sport has always been pursued enthusiastically in the Highlands and participants often take advantage of our unique landscape, whether it be for mountaineering, mountain racing, or hunting. Shinty is still the most popular sport in the Highlands and a Camanachd Cup medal from the second ever final in 1897 is featured in the gallery. Other highlights of the gallery include the Lochaber strongman, AA Cameron\u2019s championship belt, and the Ben Race medal won in 1902 by Lucy Cameron. She ran up Britain\u2019s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, in a record time of 2 hours and 3 minutes." museums@eu-lac.org English Collection TEXT "Sport has always been pursued enthusiastically in the Highlands and participants often take advantage of our unique landscape, whether it be for mountaineering, mountain racing, or hunting. Shinty is still the most popular sport in the Highlands and a Camanachd Cup medal from the second ever final in 1897 is featured in the gallery. Other highlights of the gallery include the Lochaber strongman, AA Cameron\u2019s championship belt, and the Ben Race medal won in 1902 by Lucy Cameron. She ran up Britain\u2019s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, in a record time of 2 hours and 3 minutes." "This was championship belt was won by strong man Alexander Anthony Cameron (1877\u20131951). He was one of the all-time great strongmen and athletes from Dochanassie in Lochaber. He was sometimes known as the Mighty Mucomir and was the greatest heavy of his era. The belt is made from leather and rectangles of silver linked together and set with red, white and blue enamel discs. Inscribed "Won by A.A. Cameron, championship belt of the world". On the back is engraved \u201cDrumblair 1903-1904-1905\u201d." Physical Object "" image/jpeg Alex Gillespie Still Image "This Ben Nevis race medal was won by Lucy Cameron. She won the women\u2019s race in 1902 in the record time of 2 hours and 3 minutes. The first competitive Ben Nevis race was held in 1898. Up until the turn of the century women were banned from the race, but in 1902 Lucy Cameron of Glen Mallie made the attempt and achieved a time of 2 hours and 3 minutes. Just one year later the race was cancelled for the next 24 years. When races resumed women were not permitted to compete. In 1955 Kathleen Connochie, a local 16-year-old runner, entered the race. She was banned from competing, but after public outcry she was allowed to race, but only two minutes after the men\u2019s race has started, and with a chaperone. Duncan MacIntyre, a previous race winner accompanied her." Physical Object "" Physical Object "This is one of the oldest medals in competitive shinty. Shinty, or camanachd as it is traditionally known in the Gaelic-speaking West Highlands, is an ancient game. Introduced to Scotland along with Christianity and the Gaelic language nearly two thousand years ago by Irish missionaries (St Columba is said to have arrived on these shores as a result of some shenanigans at an Irish hurling match). It is a team game played with 12 players per team and the use of a curved stick called a caman, the idea is to hit a small ball along the ground or through the air, using either side of the stick, until you score a goal in the net at the end of the field. This medal was awarded in 1897 to a Brae Lochaber player after the second ever Camanachd Cup Final. Brae Lochaber lost to Beauly 5-0 in Inverness. The photograph is the 1926 Spean Bridge (Lochaber) team." Physical Object "This leather-bound stalker\u2019s telescope has been selected because of its association with the Highlands. It is a typical example of equipment ghillies would use when deer stalking in the hills around the area. This telescope is particularly special as it was presented to Duncan McColl, head gamekeeper on the Mamore estate by King Edward VII in September 1909." Physical Object "This is a MacInnes Massey all metal ice axe. The Massey was one of the first metal-shafted ice axes manufactured in Britain. These ice axes revolutionised the sport of mountaineering. It was invented by Glencoe resident Hamish MacInnes (1930 \u2013 2020). His decision to manufacture this design was taken in the early 1960s after he found two broken wooden axes on Ben Nevis, where two mountaineers were killed in a fall. MacInnes was an icon of mountaineering and is also known around the world as the father of mountain rescue. This axe along with a selection of mountaineering objects are on long term loan to the museum from the Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection." Physical Object "Stretcher invented by Donald Duff (1893-1968) and used by Lochaber Mountain Rescue team (LMRT) whose patch includes Ben Nevis. Duff was a doctor, pioneer of Scottish mountain rescue, inventor, author, and the leader of LMRT in the late 1940s and 1950s. As chief surgeon at the Belford Hospital in Fort William he would often treat the casualties he had just rescued in the hospital still dressed in his mountain attire. Donald Duff invented this stretcher in 1944. It was in common use until it was replaced by the MacInnes Stretcher. The MacInnes stretcher was invented by local mountaineering legend Hamish MacInnes (1930 \u2013 2020) who used some of the features of the Duff stretcher in his design. The MacInnes MK1 came into use in the early 1960s and later versions of it is still used by Scottish mountain rescue teams today." Physical Object 56.81762005887159 -5.111020356416703