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