A View from the Ridge: Mountaineering Anecdotes from Scotland and America

by Ian R. Mitchell, Dave Brown

Fed up of anaemic books about mountains, about being poor and happy and mystical fulfilment? Then this is the book for you, tearing the veil from the culture clashes and conflicts on the hills. What happens if you go in search of the American Dream in Colorado, or Celtic Twilight in the Cuillins? And how do the mountains alter the pattern of male/female sexual behaviour? This book presents a different approach, but one that aims to answer just why the mountains exert such fascination over so many people.

Genres: Nonfiction

225 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Ian R Mitchell hails from Aberdeen but has lived in Glasgow most of his life. For the past 20 years he has been writing full time and his works range widely over mountaineering, travel, fiction and history. He has won both the Outdoor Writers' Award for Excellence and the Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.

Reviews

[Paul Cooke]

Funny, full of rare history, well written, makes you learn some Highland!!

[adam]

I am very glad there's an apology for sexism at the start of this book