Archive - About Mountains

Stories about Walking

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

Nov 27 •

Ronald Turnbull

Great Aletsch Glacier

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

Nov 20 •

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 •

Ronald Turnbull

Lovable limestone

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

Nov 6 •

Ronald Turnbull

October 2024

Egdon Heath – a fictitious moorland in Dorset

It takes a hardy soul to cross the bleak moorland – a Thomas Hardy soul… [1500 words 7 min

Oct 30 •

Ronald Turnbull

Just how pleasing are trees? From Sir Gawain to Stephen Sondheim [1300 words

Oct 23 •

Ronald Turnbull

Alexander von Humboldt climbs on Chimborazo

Me, a mountaineer? I'm only here for the barometric readings...

Oct 16 •

Ronald Turnbull

Leadership contest AD1306: Badenoch brutally eliminated...

Hillwalking meets high politics in southwest Scotland [1500 words 7 mins

Oct 9 •

Ronald Turnbull

Getting passionate about volcanic ash [1100 words 5 mins

Oct 2 •

Ronald Turnbull

September 2024

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