Kinder Scout

Born in 1966, Ed Douglas began walking and climbing in the Peak District as a boy. Since then he has travelled to mountain regions all over the world, particularly the Himalaya, reporting on stories as diverse as the occupation of Tibet and climate change, as well as to climb in the mountains. He is an award-winning author of eleven books about mountains and their people, including Rock Athlete, the memoirs of rock climber Ron Fawcett, which won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2010, and The Magician’s Glass, which was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award in 2017. A contributor to The Guardian for over twenty-five years, he writes a column for the paper’s Country Diary. He lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate, a science editor. John Beatty is outstanding among contemporary British nature, travel and adventure photographers, his international reputation securely based on a vast portfolio of extraordinary images from around the world that celebrate the beauty, variety and magnificence of landscape and nature. John shoots for a range of national and international commercial clients and his work appears frequently in British and international media. His books include The Pure Land: A Celebration of Wild Places, Sula: Seabird Hunters of Lewis, and Wild Vision. Passionate about wilderness experience and its value, he publishes the annual Wild Nature Diary for the John Muir Trust, the leading wild land conservation charity in the UK. John has lived in Bamford, in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District, for over thirty years with his wife Jan and two children. He walks and cycles every day among his home moors when he’s not travelling more distant parts of the globe.

• Sand; Sheep; Flight; Grouse; Moss; Hare.

'An exceptional book. The writing is rich with original research, the photographs glitter with strangeness and beauty, and the whole book rings with the passion, knowledge and vision of two people who have explored their subject for most of their lives, and fallen into profound acquaintance with it.' – Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words and Mountains of the Mind