 For many years Brown lived in Kinghorn in Fife and now lives in Burntisland.He spends several months every year in Morocco, a country very close to his heart; having first visited there in 1965 and has returned annually ever since to walk in the Atlas Mountains.In 2006, he released the book "The Mountains Look On Marrakech" an account of a 90-day end to end trek of the Atlas Mountains.