Archive - About Mountains

Jane Austen Walks

What are men to rocks and mountains? The importance of the Outdoors in the 1810s. [1500 words 7 mins

Jan 1 •

Ronald Turnbull

December 2024

Utah and the Line of Beauty

Canyonlands National Park and the shapes of scenery [2100 words 12-15 min

Dec 25, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

A Quiz for Christmas

Wander lonely as a cloud – or bagging the Wainwrights. What sort of mountain walker are you?

Dec 18, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

spectres, spectra and weird optical effects

Dec 11, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

Jamie Dodd of the Muir

A story of the Southern Uplands [1600 words 7 mins

Dec 4, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

November 2024

Stories about Walking

Fictional treatments of long-distance travel on foot: Harold Fry and 'You Are Here' [1400 words 6 mins

Nov 27, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

Great Aletsch Glacier

The odd thing about a glacier is its ugliness [1300 words, 7 mins

Nov 20, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

WH Auden 'In Praise of Limestone'

His great poem about the North Pennines, plus a bit of Italy [1300 words 8 mins

Nov 13, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

Lovable limestone

and a moment of déja view in the Yorkshire Dales [1200 words 5 mins

Nov 6, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

October 2024

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