Archive - About Mountains

January 2025

Bolt-on emotion: Romanticism part 2

English Romanticism trickles through into mountain writing of today [1300 words 6 mins

Jan 29 •

Ronald Turnbull

English Romanticism: Is it really all over?

The answer is no it isn’t, so long as people keep climbing up Helvellyn – ideally in the dark [1800 words 7 mins

Jan 22 •

Ronald Turnbull

Leslie Stephen climbs Mont Blanc

Leslie Stephen was knighted for his services as a Victorian man of letters, in particular as the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.

Jan 15 •

Ronald Turnbull

The Tertiary Volcanic Province

where else in the UK would you go for your hilly holidays? [1400 words 6 mins

Jan 8 •

Ronald Turnbull

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

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