It’s now less than 3 weeks to go until the The Living Mountain Book Club, so here’s some more information.
– Meet outside the lower station of the funicular railway for 4pm.
– Walk up to the plateau and head to the water source, Feith Buithe.
– Hopefully we’ll have lovely views over Loch Aan. Bring your tea / picnic / stove with you for an open air book club.
– Either bivvy out on plateau, continue for another adventure or return back to the car park (ETA back at car park would be 10pm).
– All of this is weather dependent and the route below may vary slightly.
For more information and to sign up for updates on the meet, please email Lauren.
“In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.
Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the ‘essential nature’ of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.”
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