“To pit oneself against the mountain is necessary for every climber; to pit oneself merely against other players, and make a race of it, is to reduce to the level of a game what is essentially an experience. (…) What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.”
Nan Shepherd – The Living Mountain (Cannongate, 2014).
Writer Between Worlds 