The Call of the Mountains by Max Landsberg

Author:Max Landsberg [Landsberg, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Walking, hiking, trekking
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Schiehallion from across Loch Rannoch

The Torridonian Giants

CHAPTER 9

Torridon

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

The winds will blow their own freshness into you

and the storms their energy

while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

JOHN MUIR My First Summer in the Sierra

THE TORRIDONIAN AREA of north-west Scotland is all that a geological playwright could wish for. A robust stage-set with a floor of the most ancient rocks in the world, dappled grey-green, and interspersed with black lochans that turn blue or white as the sun’s stage lights are trained on them. A few scattered mounds and ramps for seating. The ingress of Upper Loch Torridon as the doorway. And the ancient actors, standing proud and patrician, wizened of rock-face and Herculean of limb…

These well-bred hills are to be my next trophies: Liathach, Alligin, Slioch, Eighe. Visiting these ‘extreme’ mountains will also surely dull the memory of those last three trips, which were so unproductive. A month after my last trip, therefore, I am back in Scotland again. Having analysed the Met Office data, I can see the trend that local residents have recounted: sunny May and June are the new high season, as July and August have become wetter. Presumably, globally-warmed air is picking up water from the Atlantic sooner these days. From now on I will factor that into my planning.

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