Mountaineering in Scotland recounts W. H. Murray’s climbing in the Highlands during the 1930s, a period when Scottish winter mountaineering was still developing. The book describes a series of ascents on peaks such as Buachaille Etive Mòr and the Cuillin of Skye, covering rock climbing in summer and snow and ice conditions in winter.

Murray wrote the original manuscript while a prisoner of war during the Second World War. After the first draft was confiscated, he rewrote the work from memory in captivity. It was published in 1947.

Alongside detailed narratives of individual climbs, the book reflects on the physical and mental demands of mountaineering and the character of the Scottish landscape. It is often regarded as a significant work in the literature of the sport and helped shape later writing about Scottish hills.