Between the Sunset and the Sea: A View of 16 British Mountains. Simon Ingram

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      William Collins

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2015

      Text, illustrations and photographs © Simon Ingram 2015

      Image accompanying Chapter 13, ‘Buße Tun’ (‘Doing Penance’)

      by Walter Tafelmaier, reproduced with permission

      The author asserts his moral right to

      be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is

      available from the British Library

      Cover photograph © Justin Foulkes/4Corners 2016

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780007545407

      Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007547890

      Version: 2016-02-25

      To Mum and Dad, for letting me wander;

      and to Rachel and Evelyn, for bringing me back.

      There are more reasons for hills

      Than being steep,

      And reaching only high.

      Norman MacCaig

      ‘High up on Suilven’

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       1 Height

       PART I: SPRING

       2 Space

       3 Legend

       4 Danger

       5 Plunder

       6 Weather

       PART II: SUMMER

       7 Science

       8 Light

       9 Vision

       10 Wilderness

       PART III: AUTUMN

       11 Island

       12 Life

       13 Art

       14 Sport

       PART IV: WINTER

       15 Terror

       16 Summit

       Acknowledgements

       Selected Reading

       Index

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

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