The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd (Paperback)

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In the Cairngorms, Merryn Glover brings two ways of knowing mountains into conversation. Drawing on her upbringing in the Himalayas and her gradual adaptation to Scotland’s hills, she writes from the lived shift between scales of height and distance, and what it means to settle into a landscape that asks different things of the body and the mind.

Set alongside her own experiences are those of Nan Shepherd, author of the nature classic The Living Mountain. Moving through the same range, and circling similar themes, Glover uses the Cairngorms as a place to pay attention and to question, rather than to claim.

By tracing these parallel presences in the hills, she invites fresh ways of seeing the mountain range and thinking about what it holds, and what it might mean in contemporary Scotland.