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The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd
A Scottish woman's short meditation on the Cairngorms, written in the 1940s, published in 1977: walking into the mountain rather than up it. Beloved and brief.
Read it if…
you want to walk differently.
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Skip it if…
you want summits.
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Three things you will actually use
- Go into the mountain, not up it.
- The body knows.
- Being is the point.
Do this first
Read it in a sitting.
Our verdict
Shepherd's Cairngorms.
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