Rocky mountain high: Alastair McIntosh climbs Ben Nevis with the BBC

‘A mountain in a tempest sets our lives in greater context.’

‘In the transfiguration accounts, it was on the mountain that the transcendent and the immanent converged.’

Given how few Quakers there are in Britain, we get generous exposure in the media. And you don’t get more exposed than on Ben Nevis when the winter’s moving in.

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