Coast to Coast

Last summer, a walk from Ennerdale Bridge to Rosthwaite on the Coast to Coast path put me in sight of Great Gable. It got me thinking about the Fell and Rock Climbing Club’s mountain memorial there. I imagined that plaque, up in the cloud, paying silent but steadfast tribute to those who fell during WWI and WWII.

Mountain memorial

I’d had some ideas on my mind for a while about why and how mountains become such special places. In particular, I’d been thinking about the connections between high places and memorial. It is something I have noticed, in almost every country I have been to – that the high places are the sacred places.

Sacred places

In this podcast, I take you on an audio journey to Nepal, Mongolia, China, Tanzania and of course, the Lake District as I bring together the threads, connecting landscape, people and memory.