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The Black Ridge - Amongst the Cuillin of Skye (Paperback)
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The Black Ridge - Amongst the Cuillin of Skye (Paperback)
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List price R334
Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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'Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically
magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland'
Cameron McNeish, The Herald Rising a kilometre out of the
storm-scoured waters around Scotland's Isle of Skye is a dark
battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin. Plagued by
ferocious weather and built from rock that tears skin and confounds
compasses, a crossing of the Cuillin is the toughest mountaineering
expedition in the British Isles. But the traverse is only part of
its lure. Hewn from the innards of an ancient volcano, this
mountain range stands like a crown on an island drenched in
intrigue. While nineteenth-century climbers flocked to the Alps,
the ridge lay untrodden and unyielding. When a generation of
mountaineers did come, they found a remarkable prize: the last
peaks of Britain to be climbed - peaks that would be named after
those who climbed them. Along the way, many others, from artists
and poets to mystics and wanderers, have been lured by the
Cuillin's haunting beauty and magic. Those who have been seduced by
the deadly magic of these mountains attest to the complexity of
humans' relationship with the intrigue of our wildest, most
dangerous places. The Black Ridge is a journey through the history
and into the heights of the Cuillin of Skye - from the ridge's
violent birth to the tales of its pioneers, its thrills, its myths
and its monsters. From a night spent in a cave beneath its highest
peak to the ascent of its most infamous pinnacle, this is an
adventure on foot through all seasons across the most mesmerising
mountain range in Britain.
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