The mystery surrounding a piano unearthed by litter pickers on Ben Nevis was solved yesterday when a Scots woodcutter revealed he had carried it up the mountain 35 years ago in aid of charity.

Kenny Campbell, from Bonar Bridge, spent four days carting what was in fact a church organ to the 1,344-metre (4,408ft) summit near Fort William, mostly on his back.

"When I got there, I played Scotland the Brave," said Mr Campbell, who has also carried a beer barrel and a plough up the mountain. He plans another, so far unspecified, spectacular to mark his 65th birthday this year.