Another World

On Saturday I climbed over the Cairngorms in the snow. It was grey and cloudy until 3000ft and then our heads popped up from the clouds like an athsmatic dolphin leaping from the sea for air. I have never experienced anything like this in all my life. It felt like the moon. A silver blanket over the world, silence, circled by dominant merciless peaks, a sculpture spanning 100 miles in all directions. A part of me will always dwell up there...