The following comments relate to a thread about Jim Perrin’s ‘West:’  on the Walkhighlands website forum

To ‘kevsbald’ re.  ‘West:’ …
We would like to point out that ‘the book details’ —  where our sister, Jac, is concerned are mostly incorrect. We believe that the way in which Jim Perrin has written of her is abusive and mendacious.

‘icemandan’ writes that ‘Perrin is  increasingly incongruous amidst the gear ads in TGO and increasingly the only reason to read it!  Quite scathing really and we cannot help but wonder how the editor himself, Cameron MacNeish, would feel on reading this; it could also be thought to be ‘biting the hand that feeds’, when we consider how instrumental that gentleman has been, with his help and consistent support, for 24 years, in establishing Jim Perrin’s ‘reputation’ as a writer. ‘Caberfeideh’ says in reply to ‘kevsbald’ — ‘I do, they all die in the end.’ Undoubtedly the real tragedy of this book, as surely as it must be in Jim Perrin’s life, is the suicide of his deeply disturbed and unhappy son.

Our sister Jac on the other hand, whose death Jim Perrin chose to denote as the second part of his ‘Triad of Catastrophies’ and with whom he had lived barely 18 months, had grown, as her knowledge of his true nature became ever more apparent to her, to dislike and fear him. She planned to leave him — to tell him to leave her property, and had she not died of her cancer she would certainly have terminated the relationship.

He knows this, and yet knowing it he still wrote her (gratuitously) into his book, his purpose was apparently achieved, books were sold — sympathy flowed in on the strength of this story — his ‘Triad of Catastrophies’.

Triad ? — well, yes — the third part being his own cancer. He told his readers that he had himself been diagnosed with it. So, his third element was in place.

EXCEPT — it has been learned from a completely credible source, that Jim Perrin is not dying; that he does not have cancer at all, let alone ‘terminal lung cancer’.

We now have our own site, ‘jacssisters’, in which we have set out to disprove all the lies he told about our sister and to set the record straight.

We can also recommend readings of the Guardian site, review by Sir Andrew Motion, with all following comments, ditto the Amazon books site as well as the ‘To Hatch a Crow’ website — a fledgling of ‘Footless Crow’ — which is a must for keen walkers and climbers and if not yet discovered is a treat in store.

Jac’s sisters.