Email: Grandma’s birthday. Loves music, cooking. (Scotland)
Happy Birthday!
Author: Creatively Curious
Conversations are deep, have promises to keep! ✍️
Tribe…
The living mountain…
Email: Cousin’s birthday. Loves travel, nature, books. (UK)
Happy Birthday!
In this exquisite, poetic piece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes the incredible journeys she made into the regal Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. Written during the Second World War, The Living Mountain is a powerful meditation on solace & strength to be found in nature, on the vast importance of cultivating, cherishing our relationship with the wilderness.
She encounters a world that’s breathtakingly beautiful. A wonderful prose explores the rocks, rivers, creatures, hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. A classic on the magnificence of mountains, on our imaginative relationship with the wild world.
Request…
A note to seek patient support in response to email queries in December. The author is trying to clear messages, as much as realistically possible, while recovering from a recent knee surgery. Apologies for delays.
Thanks, appreciated.
A humble request from the Blog’s Intern.
Classics…
Favourite things…
Mountains of the mind…
Basis for documentary, Mountain: Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combines accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of forays into the wild, high landscapes. Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery, pride of world’s highest places perennially draws adventurers up the most perilous, pristine mountain slopes.
Mountains of the Mind – Amazon
The story begins 3 centuries ago when mountains were feared. In 1700s, attention of science & poetry sparked a passion for mountains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lord Byron extolled sublime mountain experiences. Macfarlane reflects on the fears, shattering beauty of ice & snow, competition & contemplation of the climb, strange alternate realities of high altitudes. The book magically envelopes us in the allure of mountains at every level.
