After a long career in education, information technology and academic publishing, Jacquetta became interested in long-distance walking and trekking. After completing the West Highland Way, her first long walk, in 1998 she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she has summited four times by different routes (1999-2008).
In 2000 she devised the waterproof, open-flat Rucksack Reader format with dropdown maps for walking guidebooks. She published the first two titles, The Speyside Way (jointly with Jim Strachan) and The West Highland Way the same year. She has since written or co-authored a further nine Rucksack Readers.
In late 2007 she walked the Arran Coastal Way for her new guidebook, returning to Arran in May 2008 for the book's launch – a joint walk by the Rotary Clubs of Stirling and Arran. In early 2008 she re-walked the Wicklow Way collecting updates for its 2nd ed. In June 2008 she returned to Kili to summit by the Lemosho route.
In April 2007 she was among the 200+ volunteers who trekked to Everest Base Camp (5300 m/17,225 ft), undergoing medical tests daily en route. For more info, read the feature in the Scotsman (17.2.07, Magazine p.38) or listen to the Radio Scotland item on Out of Doors.
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