Fundraising guide dog Travis and owner to do the West Highland Way again – this time from north to south, ending at Ibrox

Scott Cunningham is a Larkhall man who lost his sight in 1993 and has already raised over £60,000 for Guide Dogs by walking long distance trails with his dog, Travis.

So far they’ve taken on The West Highland Way – South to North; The Pennine Way; the Southern Upland Way and the Speyside Way.

In April they will again do the West Highland Way – part of which runs through Argyll. But this time they will start in the north – the first man and guide dog to do the walk in this direction. They will finish, not at the usual point in Milngavie on the north-western approaches to Glasgow – but south across the Clyde at Rangers Football Club stadium, Ibrox. The intention is to get there in time for the club’s match against Motherwell on 11th April.

There’ll be an incentive to make the time since Scott and Travis will have some former Rangers players as well as two Royal Marines keeping them company on the trail.

The Guide Dogs organisation celebrates Scott’s and Travis’s achievements not just for the number of guide dogs trained with the money the pair have raised – but for the inspirational example set to others with sight impairments of all kinds. Gillian Moffitt, fundraising manager for Guide Dogs sees their successes as ‘a shining example of how blindness needn’t prevent people from achieving their goals’.