Carro
Carro asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

In Curse of Chalion you have scenes of crossing a mountain pass and Penric likewise crosses a pass. You make it all very vivid and immediate. I've never been up in such a place and was wondering what experience and research you'd based this on? (This question was prompted by watching a documentary on a team of scientists looking for Hanibal's route across the alps - and seeing mountain passes.)

Lois McMaster Bujold
I've been across a few passes by car, in the Rockies and the Alps. And I've ridden horseback. Not at the same time, but it isn't hard to meld the two experiences together. (And the Cascades and in New Zealand, come to think, though the latter were later. Travel is good for a writer/future writer...)

Ta, L.

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