The Mountain: Journeys in High Places
The Mountain is not one place, nor one thing. The Mountain is a shape shifter, and to see it from its different angles is to view life in different perspectives.
“This book combines beautiful nature writing with scientific observations to overcome the dichotomy between feelings and rational thought, to encourage a more comprehensive and deeply felt experience of the natural world.”—Edwin Bernbaum, author of Sacred Mountains of the World
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Chapter 1. Montana: Beginnings
Chapter 3. The Tetons: The Scientific Mountain
Chapter 2. New Zealand: The Sacred Mountain
The story begins with my life in Montana and the foundations of my own relationship to mountains.
Chapter 2. New Zealand: The Sacred Mountain
Chapter 3. The Tetons: The Scientific Mountain
Chapter 2. New Zealand: The Sacred Mountain
My trek around the volcano Ngauruhoe provides the setting for this exploration of the Sacred Mountain.
Chapter 3. The Tetons: The Scientific Mountain
Chapter 3. The Tetons: The Scientific Mountain
Chapter 3. The Tetons: The Scientific Mountain
I returned to the Tetons almost forty years after completing the research for Masters in this massif. The trip had me musing about the connections between science and mountains.
Chapter 4. Yosemite: The Romantic Mountain
Chapters 5 and 6. Scotland: The Solo Mountain and Peopled Mountain
Chapter 3. The Tetons: The Scientific Mountain
Following in the footsteps of John Muir, I trekked into Yosemite, considering the role of mountains in the Romantic philosophy.
Chapters 5 and 6. Scotland: The Solo Mountain and Peopled Mountain
Chapters 5 and 6. Scotland: The Solo Mountain and Peopled Mountain
Chapters 5 and 6. Scotland: The Solo Mountain and Peopled Mountain
Scotland's Cairngorm mountains provide the setting and nature writer Nan Shepherd is the muse for The Solo Mountain chapter.
The Peopled Mountain takes place in the Highland region of Assynt, the place I wanted to call home . This is also the place where this chapter was written.
Chapter 7. Norway: The Whole Mountain
Chapters 5 and 6. Scotland: The Solo Mountain and Peopled Mountain
Chapters 5 and 6. Scotland: The Solo Mountain and Peopled Mountain
Many ways of knowing the Mountain merged during my life-changing sojourn in the challenging arctic-alpine environment of Norway. There I camped below Hallingskarvet Mountain, the mountain that influenced deep ecologist Arne Naess. Both place and man were at the heart of my journey.