A Lone Enraptured Male
Kathleen Jamie: The Cult of the Wild, 6 March 2008
The Wild Places
by Robert Macfarlane.
Granta, 340 pp., £18.99, September 2007,978 1 86207 941 0 Show More
by Robert Macfarlane.
Granta, 340 pp., £18.99, September 2007,
“... A situation has arisen on Ben Nevis. I don’t mean a rescue, although as it happens the RAF and mountain rescue teams are bringing down a man and two boys who, the report says, ‘didn’t read the weather forecast’. The situation I have in mind has also arisen on Snowdon and Scafell, and it concerns the dead. Apparently, the biggest hills are covered in so many memorials – plaques and little cairns – that it’s becoming an issue ... ”