High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Tim
π Fiction
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2004
π University of Illinois Press
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Mountain: exploring Britain's high places
β Scribed by Jones, Griff Rhys
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2008;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Griff Rhys Jones was a mountain virgin. So when it was suggested that he might like to go up a few of Britain's peaks, he rightly asked: isn't there someone better qualified?
Apparently not. So Griff was duly dispatched across the rooftops of England, Scotland and Wales to explore some of the roughest, most arduous - not to mention most beautiful - terrain, and to meet those who live daily in such thin-aired wilds.
Climbing the big mountains like Snowdon, Ben Nevis and Scafell Pike and many others besides gave Griff an insight into the passion and devotion our high places inspire - and turned a mountain virgin into a mountaineer. Well almost .
β¦ Subjects
Mountain life;Mountain life--Great Britain;Mountains;Mountains--Great Britain;SPORTS & RECREATION--Mountaineering;Travel;TRAVEL--Europe--Great Britain;;Jones, Griff Rhys -- Travel -- Great Britain;Mountain life -- Great Britain;Mountains -- Great Britain;Great Britain -- Description and travel;TRAVEL -- Europe -- Great Britain;SPORTS & RECREATION -- Mountaineering;Jones, Griff Rhys;Great Britain
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