WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there.
In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world\'s highest places..
Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride.
In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there