A group of senior pupils from across the county’s schools have walked 160km to scale every one of Scotland’s 4,000ft Munros.

The group travelled north to Fort William and started off with the round of the four highest tops of the Ben Nevis range.

On a long day with lots of ups and downs, but glorious weather, the highlights were scaling the knife-edge east ridge of Ben Nevis on perfect warm rock, with views out to Skye and Rum from the snow-covered summit.

From here the group then walked and camped across Scotland for five days to the Cairngorms. The next days were over the five highest tops of the Cairngorms to their finish in Aviemore.

During the trip, the group had to contend with extremes of both heat and cold, gale-force winds, disintegrating boots and overcoming some tricky snow cornices that were still around due to exceptionally high snows this winter.

The pupils who took part were Adam Ferguson and Sean Gardner from North Berwick High, Andrew Bell and Euan Macintosh from Dunbar Grammar, and Leon Doig and Angus Riddle from Knox Academy.

The expedition was organised and supported by East Lothian Council’s outdoor learning service.

“The trip was inspired by a similar cross-Scotland expedition I was on when at school in Dunbar,” said Andy Duff, outdoor teacher at the outdoor learning service.

“It was great to have along the help and support of Dave Habgood who had run that trip in the 1970s.

“East Lothian has a strong tradition of providing quality outdoor education and it’s really great to see that today’s youngsters are still up for taking on, and learning from, challenges like this.”