TIMES RECORD • September 13, 2022
Last month, after 21 trips across the Atlantic over nearly 28 years, Brunswick resident Peter Chingos became one of just a handful of Americans to complete the Scottish Munros, a collection of 282 mountains of at least 3,000 feet scattered across the Scottish Highlands. The “peak-bagging” bug caught Chingos at a young age. By age 16, he had climbed all 46 high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Over the next decade, he added the 4,000-foot summits of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire to complete the “Northeast 111.” Some 7,000 hikers have completed all 282 Munros, according to the Scottish Mountaineering Club. The organization’s website lists only six Americans “compleators.”