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The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1977
Pages
Pages 108

Near the summit of Braeriach, four thousand feet up, water wells out of bare gravel and becomes the River Dee. Nan Shepherd went to look, and could only report that water so clear cannot be imagined, it must be seen.

To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.
The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd

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