Mountaineering

Mountains of the Heart

By The Voice Editor   Posted in Issue 133
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By Sue Brooks, published on Caught by the River on 8th April 2022 In the company of Robert Macfarlane and W.H. Murray, Sue Brooks traverses icy terrains of the heart and mind. In the deep midwinter of 2022, Robert Macfarlane returned to Rannoch Moor to commemorate the 75th year of the publication of a book …

Is it time to stop climbing mountains? Obsession with reaching summits is a modern invention

By The Voice Editor   Posted in Issue 114
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By Dawn Hollis, published in The Conversation, 21st August 2020. Dawn Hollis is a Research Fellow, School of Classics, University of St Andrews. Featured image: Engraving from John Chardin’s Travels into Persia and the East Indies, 1686, showing Mount Ararat, Turkey As a historian of mountains in Europe, I have been struck by the environmental …