Proms Plus: Mountains
Historian Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to writer Abbie Garrington & climber Dan Richards about the appeal of mountains & wild landscapes & how they have inspired creativity
The Alps have loomed large in the artistic imagination since the Romantic poets explored them in search of 鈥榯he sublime鈥�. Historian Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to writer Abbie Garrington and climber Dan Richards. His book Climbing Days tells the life of his Great-Great Aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a pioneering woman climber, and reflects on the appeal of the mountains and how the landscape can be a force for creativity, in music and literature. Abbie Garrington, from Durham University, has a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a literary history of mountaineering.
Producer: Zahid Warley
