Steve Chilton is the author of four previous books on fell and mountain running, all highly regarded both inside and outside the sport. The first, It’s a Hill, Get Over It, won the Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition. He is a long-time member of the Fellrunners Association. He has run in many of the classic fell races, as well as mountain marathons, and has completed the Cuillin Traverse. Now retired from Middlesex University where he was Educational Development Manager, he is also a former Chair of the Society of Cartographers and of the ICA Commission in Neocartography.
Jasmin Paris is a former a national fell running champion and who has set records for the Bob Graham Round and the Ramsay Round. As a fell and mountain runner she has set formidable records for both the Bob Graham Round and Ramsey Round. She is known and respected throughout the world having set records in both Europe and America. Jasmin works as a small animal vet at the University of Edinburgh.