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Damn straight: the walkers who took on Britain’s ‘longest line’

WHAT’S THE LONGEST LINE you can walk along in Britain without having to cross a paved road? In 2018, Ordnance Survey officially blogged an answer to this intriguing question – it was, they said, in Scotland: a 78.5km (49-mile) route between the Pass of Drumochter and Corgarff in the Cairngorms.

At the end of last summer, adventurer and broadcaster Calum Maclean teamed up with record-breaking round-the-world cyclist Jenny Graham to attempt this fabled

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