 The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 15678, in the name of Liz Smith, on the centenary of the death of Sir Human Roe. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put. Can I ask those members who wish to speak in the debate to press the request-to-speak buttons now? I call on Liz Smith to open the debate. Liz Smith, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. It gives me a very great pleasure to present this motion to Parliament this evening. May I extend a very warm welcome to the members of the Monroe Society, who are in the gallery, and I also congratulate them on the outstanding archive exhibition that they have mounted in the A.K. Bell library in Perth, which I had the great pleasure to visit just on Friday, which accompanies the exhibition in Caramure about Sir Human Roe's life. I thank all the representatives of the other groups on whom we depend so much for the preservation of our mountain scenery across Scotland. I also welcome a very special climber, who is also in the gallery, whose name very fittingly is Hugh William Monroe, who is hoping to complete in a few months' time. May I wish him well in that? I was 14 when I was first told about Sir Hugh. At the time, I am not sure that I paid terribly much attention to either him or to his mountains, although I still have an exceptionally vivid memory of walking the Lara Grew and seeing the great towering cliffs of Ben McDewy and Bray Rheik above it, which perhaps subliminally at the time inspired me and I will say more about that inspiration in just a minute. Sir Hugh was born in London in 1856. He was schooled in Creef, Winchester and Cambridge, but it was his early life around the family estate near Caramure, with the scenic backdrop of the Angus Glens, and then specifically a trip to Stuttgart to learn German, which he combined with the trip through the Alps that sparked Monroe's lifelong love of mountains. He spent some time in South Africa working as private secretary to the governor of Natal before returning to Angus to manage the family estate. Later in life, Sir Hugh worked as a king's messenger travelling to Asia, North Africa and Africa itself. What members might not know is that Sir Hugh had a keen interest in politics, standing in 1885 as the Conservative and Unionist candidate in the Cercodi borrher's constituency. Not, it has to be said, with terribly much success, polling precisely three votes for every Monroe that he was later to identify. It was in 1891, in the sixth issue of the Journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, of which he was a founder member, that Monroe published his original list of all the peaks in Scotland with a height of over 3,000 feet. The original list, the outcome of much painstaking research, was drawn up from the Ordnance Survey maps of the time, as well as from Sir Hugh's own vast knowledge gained from his trips to the hills. At the time, it contained 283 mountains, something that came as more than little bit of a surprise to many within the Scottish mountaineering community who believed that the Scottish tops over 3,000 feet were probably only around 30, albeit that the definition of a separate mountain is much clearer today than it was in his time. Of course, the list has undergone several revisions since. Infuriatingly, for some of us who were baggers when we found out that an additional Monroe had suddenly appeared, or one that we had already climbed had disappeared. As things stand at present, there are 282. Sadly, Sir Hugh never quite managed to complete his own list. Three summits eluded him. Those were the inaccessible pinnacle on Skye, and I certainly do not blame him for that, given my own experience on that iconic rock. Karna Fiddler, which is a long trail out into the wilds from Leonard D or Glen Feshey or Glen Tilt, and Karne Clawch Fwllan in Upper D side, which at the same time he believed to be a separate Monroe from Ben Broughton. However, as well as his life, Sir Hugh's legacy is the one that we must be celebrating this week. We should celebrate his contribution not only to our mountains, but to Scotland generally, giving the enormous popularity of Monroe bagging, both within the UK and abroad. He can have had little idea of the influence that he was to exert on later generations of walkers and climbers. He would never have expected that his own name would become synonymous with those mountains, nor indeed could he have foreseen the vast numbers of climbers who, over a century later, would be using his tables as the basis for his leisure activities. He could certainly never have predicted all the books that had been written, the tourist trails that had been set up and the mythology that now surrounds all our Monroe's. The first recorded completionist is believed to be the Reverend A. E. Robertson, who became the first person to climb all the Monroe's in 1901. However, now a quite remarkable list exists. Steve Fallon from Edinburgh holds the record for having completed 15 rounds of all 282 Monroe's, while Hazel Strachan from Bathgate holds the female record with 10 rounds. The record for the fastest round of the Monroe's is held by Stephen Pike of Staffordshire, who, without using any motorised transport, completed the round in precisely 39 days and nine hours. I explained my own conversion to outdoor education in my early teaching years. I learned almost all I know about mountain craft from Ian Murray, who was a senior colleague but also a Monroeist. It was during those early teaching days that I spent numerous school projects at Locosian, for which I have an enduring affection. Along with groups of pupils and colleagues, I made regular assents of the 12 accessible Monroe's around Locosian, but it was not until the later stages of school projects that the Monroe's bug really captured me, completing my own round in 2012. Over the years, that bug has taken me to some of the most wonderful places in Scotland, where I have met some most extraordinary people, where I have tested my own abilities, both athletic and mental, against all the challenges that the elements could throw at me. I have also had the privilege of good companionship, including two of my colleagues, Murdo Fraser and Miles Briggs, who will, I hope, in the not-too-distant future, also be complacent, pretending that their map reading is a bit better as we progress. May I finish this tribute to Sir Hugh by offering some thoughts on what I think that there are three very important messages that we must take forward. Firstly, that we must be doing all we can to pass on his great legacy to the young people of today, a generation for whom it is so tempting and far too easy to stay indoors and ignore the great beauty of Scotland. We owe them our knowledge and our wisdom when it comes to getting the best of the great outdoors. Secondly, Crimin Monroe's brings great enjoyment, but it also brings a great responsibility. A responsibility for ourselves as we embark on challenging adventures in the wilds of Scotland in weather conditions that can really test our judgment at any moment, but also for other people as we guard their safety on the hills. The third message is to respect and assist all those who preserve and enhance their use great legacy in caring for the environment, whether they build and repair the paths, those who look after the mountain bothys, the moors, those who rescue those who get into difficulty and all those who support them. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude, because without them we could not enjoy the Monroe's in a way that we do. I will finish with some words from the great climber Edward Wimper, who, with his ascent of the Matterhorn, inspired Monroe. He said, Climb, if you will, but remember that courage and strength are not without prudence and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Wise words, Deputy Presiding Officer, as we remember the legacy of Sir Human Role. Thank you very much. Just to the gentleman in the gallery, we don't permit applause from the gallery much though you wish to do it. I now open debate Emma Harper, followed by Murdo Fraser. I'm looking forward to Mr Fraser's tales of going up Monroe's now. Emma Harper, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'd like to, first of all, thank Liz Smith for securing this debate and joining her and the rest of the country in celebrating the life and legacy of Sir Human Role, the first person to compile a definitive list of Scotland's mountains 3,000 feet high or higher. As Liz Smith has wonderfully expressed in her speech, Sir Hugh himself was unable to complete them all, sadly passing away before bagging the final three on his list, but his legacy does live on, encouraging thousands of people each year to hike Scotland's highest mountains with the goal of one day bagging them all. But the legacy of Sir Hugh Monroe is not just to encourage people to hike Scotland's Monroe's, it's to enjoy all types of hills and mountains in Scotland. While my South Scotland region isn't home to a single Monroe, not even a single yin, we have plenty of corbitz and donalds to make up for it. My staff member, Ross Cunningham, assures me that hiking Monroe's and the donalds with his dug decks is actually so enjoyable and rewarding. The Scottish mountaineering club describes the Donald as a Scottish lowlands mountain which at its highest is 2,000 feet or higher. There are 89 donalds, most of which are in Dumfries and Galloway, and the greatest of them all is the Merrick, the highest mountain in the south of Scotland. Of course, there are other beautiful mountains and hills in the south west such as White Coombe near Moffat, which is on its lower slopes. It is the home of the beautiful Loch Skeen and Grahamair's Tale, one of Scotland's in the UK's finest waterfalls. The views from the summit of the Merrick are breathtaking, offering panoramic views across the Galloway forest and hills, and on a clear day as far afield is the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland. I have been passionate about promoting the south west and bringing more tourists to the region because we really have so much to offer visitors, particularly the region's role in the life of one of Scotland's greatest icons, Robert the Bruce. I encourage any hill walkers planning to hike the Merrick to take in Bruce's stone at the foot of the mountain. It is a massive granite boulder with inscriptions that commemorates Bruce's first victory in 1307 during the Scottish Wars of Independence. Someone who has walked the summit of the Merrick on many occasions is a wheel-kent friend of Galloway, Steve Norris. Steve is an author and journalist for Galloway and a keen hill walker. Perhaps Steve Norris is our south west equivalent to Sir Hugh Monroe. Born and bred in Wigtonshire, he has been climbing the Galloway hills since he was a wee boy. Steve wrote a series of articles on exploring the mountains in the south west, called to the high country. The series prompted many requests from readers to write books about his adventures in the hills, which he now has begun three books. He describes Galloway hills as a magical kingdom. The Cairnsmore range and the Minigaff range published and three more in the pipeline. I think that it is good that Steve is inspiring people to explore and bag Bonnie Galloway and its upland hills and I am sure further afield to bag the Munroes. I follow his hikes and his photos on his Facebook page with his Doug Rourie and his pages as Galloway hills books. Finally, I would like to say a thank you to Scotland's mountain rescue teams. I am aware that many have been called out recently and been kept very busy. In the south west, we have the Galloway mountain rescue team, a charity Newton Stewart providing rescue services in the Dumfries and Galloway in South Ayrshire area. They were formed in 1975 and have responded to over 420 incidents, including one as recently as last weekend. Like other mountain rescue teams, Galloway MRT is a charity run by volunteers who give up their own time when called upon, which can put their life in danger to rescue those who are injured or in distress in our mountains and hills. I would encourage everyone to visit their website to learn more about their work and to read about how to keep safe in the hills, whether they are bagging the Galloway hills or the Munroes. In the centenary of the death of Sir Hugh Munro, whether he is climbing the Munroes named after him or the Donalds doon in Bonnie Galloway, our Scotland is the most beautiful country to explore. Can I start by congratulating my colleague Liz Smith on securing this debate for her motion, which I was pleased to support. There cannot be many individuals who have a whole sport or activity named after them, but Sir Hugh Munro falls into that category. The pastime of Munro bagging, which now attracts many thousands of people to Scotland and many thousands of Scots into the hills every weekend and at holiday time, is a direct result of his efforts in compiling a list of Scottish Peaks over 3,000 feet. As Liz Smith set out earlier in the debate, Sir Hugh was a native of Angus, growing up on his family estate of Llyndirtus near Cirmure. I had the privilege of attending a few years ago an unveiling of a memorial stone to him in the centre of Cirmure, where he was being remembered as one of the town's greatest sons. I have not yet had the opportunity to visit the Munro Society exhibition at the library in Perth, but it is very much on my list of things to do in the coming days. Sir Hugh never managed to complete the round of Munro himself, being driven off-sky by bad weather on more than one occasion, so he never made it to the top of the inaccessible pinnacle. In that respect, at least I have one up on him, having completed all the peaks on the Cullen ridge a few years ago. It was certainly an unforgettable experience, and one far away from the perception many have of Scottish hill-walking just being about trudging over boggy moors infested by vicious midges, although there is a fair bit of the experience that is about that too. Unlike Liz Smith, I have not yet completed the round of Munro's. I think that on my last count I was on 193, so now I have fewer than 100 to go, and I am hoping to get there one day. Last summer I was able to take my son, who was then aged 10, up his very first Munro, which was Ben Hope, in the north of Scotland. I am not sure that I experienced and inspired him to try and climb many others. He did ask me what exactly was the point of the exercise when he got to the top, but I am hoping that one day he will be inspired by the bug that has bitten so many other climbers. What Munro's tables do is set out a list of peaks to climb in the number, which is a substantial effort that most people will complete over an extended period of time, perhaps a lifetime. However, for those who do, there is not just a sense of great achievement. What they will have done is experience Scotland in comprehensive fashion, seeing all different parts of the country from the Angus Glynes and the Cairngorms in the east to the wild north west, and experiencing no doubts the extremes of weather and on occasion push themselves beyond the limits of what they think they could accomplish. I know that there are some climbers who get rather snooty about Munro bagging, but it is a popular and challenging way to experience Scottish hills, and many who start climbing the Munros have gone on to greater exploits elsewhere. We should not forget that the tremendous contribution that the sport of climbing Munros makes to the Scottish tourist economy. There are now thousands of people on the Munro trail, something that is evident by the well trodden paths that lead to the top of even the most remote peaks, and the whole industry of providing hotel beds, self-catering, meals, drinks and outdoor shops has been built around the existence of Munro's tables. Finally, climbing Munros is about fresh air and exercise, a relatively inexpensive hobby helping people to get fit and something that we all need to be doing more of. In closing, I am pleased to support the motion, and I encourage those who have not yet had the experience of climbing Munros to get out there and do it. I am sure that we will all be celebrating Sir Hugh Munro's legacy for many years to come. I thank and congratulate Liz Smith on tabling the great motion and on securing the very enjoyable debate. I also congratulate her on being a Munroist. I really take my hat off to her and also to Murdo Fraser's impressive total of £193. I have to say that mine is slightly less than £50, but there is no less joy in that. I do not know if I will ever complete them all, but it is certainly one of the most enjoyable pastimes and something that I have enjoyed since being a young teenager. It is a particular honour for me to speak in this debate, because I am a member for the north-east and represent the area of Carimure, which is Sir Hugh Munro's birthplace, and I hope to manage to visit the exhibition before it closes, I believe, later this year. I was interested to hear also that Liz Smith mentioned Steve Fallon. Steve Fallon's Twitter feed gives me a lot of encouragement on a dark morning on my way into this Parliament, knowing that I will not make it out again during daylight, because some of the pictures that he tweets from the beautiful light and some of the gorgeous scenes across our country on it, I wish he would do it even more regularly on my Twitter feed, because it gladdens my heart every time I see them. I have spoken here before on the importance of access to the outdoors, and Liz Smith and I spoke in a debate on the importance of outdoor education just a few weeks ago. I feel particularly passionate about that, because we know that there are so many children still in Scotland today who are brought up in cities that have never even been to a beach, let alone a mountain. I think that some of the organisations that are doing work across Scotland to encourage this deserve to be marked today and deserve our thanks and praise. I would like to mention Duke of Edinburgh in that. Duke of Edinburgh has traditionally, and when I was younger—I am not a Duke of Edinburgh participant—it was never available when I was at school. However, what they are doing now is making a concerted effort to go into communities that perhaps do not have as much access and the resources to fund and facilitate access to the outdoors. I would like to mark our thanks to them and hope that the whole Parliament can give encouragement to them as they go forward with that project. I also take the opportunity to echo Emma Harper's thanks to our mountain rescue. We saw just last week how important that service is. Liz Smith's thanks to all those organisations across the Scotland that maintain the pathways and infrastructure that we need. I also think that Murdo Fraser's point about the impact of the economy. I do not quite have the words to articulate that, but of course there are people who are a bit snooty about the Monroe's bagging project. Murdo Fraser's right to point out that the human role really made it a thing and, once something becomes a goal to achieve, then it becomes an accessible challenge for people. I do not think that there is anything wrong with that if it is about encouraging people into the outdoors. Let me finish by drawing the Parliament's attention to a project in memory of Sir Hugh Monroe. It is being launched next week, I believe, by the University of Dundee, and it is called the Monroe table project. It is asking members of the public experienced mountaineers or people who have never climbed a mountain before to sign up to climb one Monroe by the end of this year and to remove a small bag of rubbish as they walk. It sounds like a good project and it is an environmental project, and I hope that anyone who has listened to the debate might go and explore it further. Andy Wightman, last speaker in the open debate. Mr Wightman, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I thank Liz Smith for bringing this debate. She is probably the first Monroe-completist MSP. I do not know if there have been any before. This is also my second member's debate on two topics that I am interested in. Who won the Monroe's yesterday and the Monroe's themselves today? My diary indicated that I was meant to be a faculty of actuaries event this evening, but I had a meeting earlier with Murdoff Fraser and he is offering me a place in his taxi, so I do not run away so that we can get to that on time. As a new member of the Parliament, I am not sure who among our number shares this obsession, and if nothing else coming to this debate reveals some of them. I should add that I am not a Monroe bagger as such, although I have probably climbed more than 200 of them, but as a teenager I had been a member of the Oakles mountaineering club and members there were starting to complete. In fact, I climbed regularly with someone who was a 99th completer, but I decided at university in Aberdeen to stop counting, because that was a cool thing to do. I was in the Larran club, which was the university mountaineering club that was present in fact, and there was another club called the exploration society, and we regarded them as pond life. They just went and walked, and they also went up Monroe's. So it was cool, therefore, to distinguish yourself by not being a Monroe bagger because if you are a Monroe bagger you are meant to be in the exploration society. Nevertheless, I continued to enjoy, in winter and summer, wandering up hills by some very strenuous routes, and was content to keep climbing them. However, by this time it had become too late to achieve a goal, I would have quite liked to set myself. In Bob Scott's Bothie and the Cairn Gorms, I committed myself to being the first person not to complete them in rows. Of course, all bar 6000 people have in fact achieved this, including I imagine many people here—in fact, everyone Barless Smith. However, my goal was to be the first to actually climb them but to stop 10ft short of the summit, which was rather a bizarre goal, but I cannot achieve that now. However, in recent years, my family members have been quite enthusiastic. I got my Monroe's tables out and I saw the pencil ticks and dates that petered out in the 1980s. As members have said over the past 20 years, the outdoors have become much, much more popular, and that is, of course, extremely welcome. In particular, I was climbing Ben Cluch—actually, not Monroe, but Nice Hill—a few weeks ago, and I was quite surprised, in fact, and delighted to see so many young women out walking on the hills. When I started going to the hills, I thought that Bob Scott shares this, it was very much a male pursuit. Indeed, too many men went out with their way to discourage women and young people. I find the modern obsessions around Monroe's a bit baffling but also quite fascinating. I was delighted to read a recent blog on the Fiona Outdoors website by Monroe Bagger and Butler, which is based on an article that she wrote for the Monroe Society Journal in 2016. I didn't even know there was a Monroe Society, but there you go. I apologise for my ignorance. In September 2018, Anne became the first full-house finisher—a full-house being the completion of not only the Monroe's but the Monroe Tops, the Corbettes, the Graham's, the Donalds and the Firth's—whatever they are. She is now planning to complete another full-house, as well as her sixth and seventh round of the Monroe's. Her article was entitled, There Are No Rules, and she asked some thorny questions about Monroe's that have to be reclassified and whether she needs to go back up a Monroe that has been elevated to that status. She also drew her attention to the first person to have completed the Monroe's without a beard was a J. Dow in 1933. She also has a very interesting section on how do you count yours? An age-old problem, she says, that many would welcome a ruling on is between the on-going debate between golfers and bankers, so the purest are golfers, as they are known, believe that you don't start a second or subsequent round until you've finished the last. And then there's the bankers who apply the cumulative mode of counting and simply start the next round on whatever total of repeater sense that has already been achieved. And you can see how this kind of gentle obsession can occupy people in many, many hours of entertaining conversation, which is perfectly delightful. To conclude, Scotland has probably blessed to have had human rows in his famous tables that's given a generation of folk a very demanding target for what otherwise might be a less demanding pastime. A good friend of mine from university was Andy Nisbott, who tragically died a few weeks ago. He's a good example of people who he completed in Monroe's by the time he was 19, but his wide experience of the hills developed an interest, a skill and a talent to go on to be arguably Scotland's most prolific and successful winter climbing with more than 1,000 new routes across the country. May folk from Scotland to the UK and across the world continue to enjoy all our hills that we have to offer. Much of that will be found on Monroe's, but a good deal will not be. I'm absolutely delighted to be here and to have the opportunity to close the debate tonight celebrating the life of Sir Human Row, because it's been one of the best-natured debates that I've sat in on in the past while. I really want to thank Liz Smith for bringing forward this motion and for allowing us the opportunity to celebrate the life of Sir Human Row and everything that he achieved and the lasting legacy that he's left in Scotland. As I say, I'm excited to do that tonight, particularly because of the Angus connection. I don't quite represent Cary Muir—that's in Angus South. Cary Muir is home to quite a few famous sons between Human Row, Bond Scott and J.M. Barriots. Angus is quite the home for talent. I also want to welcome the visitors that will have in the gallery tonight as well, so I'm really disappointed to hear about Willie Monroe not quite completing it yet, so I look forward to hearing about when he's completed that challenge. I want to thank Liz Smith for all the background that she provided in the history on that tonight. I didn't realise that Sir Human Row had been a Conservative candidate and stood for the election as well. I was like, there's jokes in there about Tories and elections, but I won't go there tonight. It's been relatively good-natured, so I'll leave that one well alone. I was really looking forward to this because our Monroe's, our hills and wider landscape are something that I'm really passionate about. My constituency of Angus North and Merhins is actually home to Scotland's most easterly Monroe in Mankheen, which I go to often. If you visit it from the Glen Esk side, you pass the Queen's Well, which is a crown-shaped structure built in Granite, to commemorate the site where Queen Victoria passed by on an outing from Balmoral. I would like to think that I have ambitions to be a Monroe bagger, though in saying that, it does seem quite competitive in terms of the numbers of Monroe's that people have scaled tonight. From Murdo's, 193 Liz Smith has completed them all. Jenny Marra around 50, Andy Wightman, Cudodon 200, Cudodon them all. He's too cool to count, so who really knows. It makes my paltry eight sound a little bit pathetic, but saying that, I have done some of them a lot more than once, but I think that I really have had some of the most special and memorable moments of my life have been those days when I've been up climbing the hills. Especially when you do it on your own, though I'm something of a springtime walker only to do it in the good weather. That's really when you can see the whole of Scotland laid out before you. It really does make your heart swell when you see just what a fantastic and incredible landscape you live in. In terms of some of the most memorable moments in my life, I think that one of them was when I was up climbing Meir and Drish, the snow came down, I lost my car key at the top and only discovered that at the bottom. Sorry, it was my mum's car key because I'd borrowed her car, had to go up with a metal detector two days later to get a phone call at the top from the ranger base at the bottom. Somebody had sat down next to it that day and found it and brought it back down, so that was a bit of good luck. Enough about my personal attachment to it, because I think that it's important that we take a moment to reflect on how far we've come in Scotland since devolution, because one of this Parliament's earliest successes was the National Parks Act in 2000. Our two national parks, Loch Lomond in the Trossacks and the Cairngorms, are thriving areas that showcase some of the best of natural Scotland. The Cairngorms has some of the highest mangroves in Scotland, too. If you take a walk up through Baloch, Bewy Forest, to Loch Niggar or up to the west side of the Larragrew to Cairntool, by the side of Loch Lomond is one of the most often climbed mangroves in Ben Lomond, which now commemorates those that died in the war at the Ben Lomond national memorial landscape. It's probably quite a poignant reflection that Sir Human Roam himself just lived to see the end of the First World War, and no doubt that he would have seen the Ben Lomond national memorial landscape as a fitting tribute to the death and suffering of so many of that time, having served with the Red Cross himself. In 2003 came the Land Reform Scotland Act, and I have no reservations in saying that probably all of our mangrove baggers must be grateful for that ground-breaking legislation that brought Scotland's access rights into the 21st century. The access rights are climbers and walkers now benefit from our world leading in terms of the extent, scope and the clarity of them. The Scottish outdoor access code leaves a legacy of inclusion of which I would like to think that human law would be justly proud, and our core path plans also provide for access closer to where people live. Later in 2006, in the planning act, that secured our best landscapes as the suite of national scenic areas, and their special protection within the planning system to ensure that they will always remain attractive to our global visitor markets. Even those who don't go on to become full-blown mountaineers can get huge physical and mental health benefits from getting outdoors and challenging themselves, including by walking our men rows. As Emma Harper highlighted, it's not just about them and rows, but getting out and about in general and enjoying our scenery right across Scotland, whether that includes the Corbets and the Donalds, too. The Scottish Government has a vision of Scotland where more people are more active and active more often. Physical activity, of course, is about getting people moving. Walking in Scotland's natural environment is free, and we know that being active outdoors is good for both physical and mental health. Emma Harper also mentioned Ross Cunningham in her office, who has talked about this recently, and I believe that he's done pieces with the BBC about that. In 2017, the Scottish Household Survey showed that recreational walking has consistently been the most common type of physical activity that adults participate in. That's risen from 57 per cent in 2011 to 70 per cent in 2017. We're working with partners to promote green exercise, support local green health partnerships and maximise investment in green infrastructure. Playing, learning and having fun outdoors helps to improve wellbeing and resilience. It's associated with a wide range of health benefits in children and really allows children to use the natural world to help develop the curiosity and science skills. There's a growing body of research and also shows a positive impact on educational attainment as part of that, too. The right to play outdoors every day has been enshrined in the Scottish Government's national health and social care standards, and we are a signatory to Scotland's outdoor play and learning coalition position statement. Liz Smith was absolutely right when she talked about the three great lessons that we should heed towards the end of her speech. The first of those being to pass on to human rose legacy to our young people and encourage that spirit of adventure. To myrdo Fraser, I wouldn't worry too much that your son may have not picked up the bug yet or get them in row bug. This is from somebody who feigned illness to get out of their bronze due to Edinburgh, and it's only a bug that hit me later on in life in which I'm very much hooked on and addicted to it now. That takes me on to Jenny Marra's point in the absolutely vital point that she made about the work of Duke of Edinburgh and what they're trying to do with our young people and also about the environmental project that she talked about that's happening in Dundee at the moment. I think that that's a challenge that we should probably set to people right across this chamber as well, and hopefully one man row by the end of the year shouldn't be too much for anybody to manage or to try and do. Now, we also heard about the massive impact on tourism, and Visit Scotland's visitor survey showed that about 50 per cent of respondents cited Scotland's scenery and landscape as their top reason for visiting. This is the number one reason for visiting Scotland in all markets, whether that's people who are resident in Scotland, from the rest of the UK, European visitors and long-haul visitors too. Nature-based tourism, including activities based on Scotland's landscapes and wildlife, makes a substantial contribution to the tourism sector. Tourist spending on nature-based activities is worth nearly 40 per cent of all tourism spending, and its value to Scotland's economy is £1.4 billion per year, and it supports 39,000 jobs. Just to wrap that up, I would say that Scotland's natural environment is, of course, a huge asset, and our man rows are a key part of that. That's again why I want to thank Liz Smith so much for bringing this forward to the chamber tonight so that we get the chance to celebrate and remember Sir Human Row, who, unknowingly at that time, created one of the great challenges to hill walkers in Scotland across the UK and internationally, and I would simply encourage people in this chamber and out with it to get outside, get out, explore and enjoy Sir Human Row's fantastic legacy to Scotland. Thank you. That concludes a very entertaining debate, and I close this meeting.