The Last Hillwalker : A sideways look at forty years in Britain's mountains
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
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From somewhere out in the vast whiteness of the blizzard comes a cry for help. Instinctively turning across the mountainside, three walkers find two men and a woman huddled together in the snow, unable to descend the steep icy slope between them and safety. The woman asks if they are experienced in conditions like this. Having tackled a few winter hills in the Lake District and bumbled up easy rock climbs, but never having been in a full Scottish winter snowstorm before, one of them laughs and assures her that this is nothing to mountaineers like them.
Soon our hills will be empty and one day the last hillwalker will disappear over the horizon. In the 21st century we are losing our connection with the wild, a connection that may never be regained.
From bestselling author John D. Burns comes a personal story of falling in and out of love with the hills. More than that, it is about rediscovering a deeply felt need in all of us to connect with wild places.
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