“The beauty of Snowdonia’s rainy climate is that all the dips and clefts in the saturated green overflow with pure water. It glistens, wind-whipped, in mountain cwms [hollows], rushes over into waterfalls and sits silently on huge valley floors.
“You can find electric blue (reflecting a hot, clear sky), green (lots of plant life), black (deep), brown (storm-stirred), matt white (icy) or a shivering upside-down landscape (windless) — water amplifies whatever is around it. That’s partly why I go; as Nan Shepherd, the Scottish poet and intrepid Cairngorms hill walker, said, “To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
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