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Wallace Stevens meets the mountain

The mountain, treecovered and somewhere in New England, meets Wallace Stevens [1000 words, 4 mins

Jan 1 • Ronald Turnbull

December 2025

Quiz: Hills and Literature

Not all our literary heroes are mountaineers. But some of them are… A quiz to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of this Substack, not to mention Christmas…

Dec 24, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Plase note: this short story does not display the proper Christmas spirit. [1300 words, 5 mins

Dec 17, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Romantic chasms

Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Somerset Coast Path [2200 words 15 mins

Dec 10, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Enid Blyton hikes

I was going to post about Coleridge again. But then I stopped at my local café for a haggis-and-cheese toastie. [1000 words, 4 mins

Dec 3, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

November 2025

Celebrating the Zinalrothorn

Never mind Mont Blanc: here’s a proper Alpine mountain [1800 words, 6 mins

Nov 26, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Down Dunnerdale with William Wordsworth

Walking the full length of a Lakeland river, in 22 miles and 34 sonnets [ 2200 words, 10 mins

Nov 19, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Does dying on high mountains have survival value?

Then again, there’s leaping off high platforms with stretchy vines tied to your ankles. A look at the land divers of Vanuatu and other death-defying…

Nov 12, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Bacterial sludge: Stromatolites

A tale of two planet-destroying organisms [1700 words 7 mins

Nov 5, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

October 2025

Scotland's Mountains

Celebrating my 100th Substack post with a words-and-pictures gallery of my home hills

Oct 29, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Howard Somervell

He sat down to die on Everest in 1924, then came down again and painted it all in oils. If you happen to be in Grasmere, then grab this exhibition at…

Oct 22, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Gordale Blimey!

At the end of October, putting back the clock by a full 200 years, while walking from the limestone to Lancashire [1600 words 6 mins

Oct 15, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

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