What should happen to a Glen Coe cottage tainted by Jimmy Savile?

Davy served as a volunteer in Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team alongside Hamish.

He describes his old friend as a generous man with a dry sense of humour, but who could appear dour to those who did not know him.

Davy says Hamish would have been uncomfortable with the idea of a house being named after him.

“Hamish wouldn’t want a museum or a plaque. His legacy was in his writing and mountaineering achievement,” he says.

“Naming something after him is the antithesis of who he was.”

Davy also says Hamish’s story should be kept separate from the planning application, and he blames the media for stirring up anger around Savile’s ownership of the cottage.

“The papers call it ‘Savile’s lair’, but he didn’t live there all that much and when he did he usually slept in a van outside the cottage.

“The women in the area didn’t like him (Savile). He kept to himself.”

Davy adds: “The best thing to do is just to flatten the site.”