大象传媒

An elemental journey into the heart of the Cairngorms following in the footsteps of Nan Shepherd.

The writer and poet Nan Shepherd spent all her life living in the outskirts of Aberdeen in the north east of Scotland close to the River Dee. She had a deep passion for the hills and spent much of her free time exploring the mountains of the Cairngorms. She wrote her iconic love letter to these wild places 'The Living Mountain' during the Second World War, but it lay untouched in a drawer until 1977 when it was finally published. In recent years, it has become one of the most celebrated pieces of nature writing ever to be written.

Nan describes the watercourses of the Cairngorm massif in incredible detail, including her beloved Dee which she followed to its source close to the top of Britain's third highest mountain, Braeriach. Producer Helen Needham undertakes that journey and captures the sounds of the places Nan writes about with readings from 'The Living Mountain'.