Go with the flow to learn river’s history
But among the sites to be sighted along a guided walk from Balerno to Currie this Sunday will be the spot where Dougal Haston, the first Scot to climb the south-west face of the mountain, practised.
Helen Brown, manager for the Water of Leith Trust which is running the walk, says: “He was from Currie and he used to practise up the walls on the sides of the old railway line.”
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