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Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music

Life Examined

CHAPTER

A View Loving Mountains

The first book i write is 20 years next year, which does nd make me gasp a littleit s call mountains of the mind. It came out in two thousand and three, which was the fiftieth anniversary of the first ascent of everest. And i remember one day when i was just out of it with altitude sickness, on this glace c the inalchet glacier, under this incredible seven thousand meter peak of pink marble called cantangre wandering up the glacier to find an improvised mountaineers cemetery. Just looking at the placks with ther names scratched on them of the people who died on those mountains around me,. Suddenly had this kind of view in from the outs

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