Waymaking
An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
Published on 4. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-910240-75-5 (ISBN)
Description
Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019
Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.
Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn't about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure.
The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan's legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity.
With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore.
Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.
Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn't about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure.
The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan's legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity.
With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
34 Illustrations, color; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
745 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910240-75-5 (9781910240755)
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Helen Mort | Claire Carter | Heather Dawe
Waymaking
An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
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10/2018
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Persons
Helen Mort is a writer, trail runner and climber who lives in Sheffield. She teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and has published two poetry collections with Chatto & Windus. Her latest, No Map Could Show Them, explores the history of women's mountaineering. She has been shortlisted for the Costa prize and the T.S. Eliot prize, and in 2014 won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection prize. Her first novel is forthcoming from Chatto in 2019. She is also the author of Lake District Trail Running and has written for Alpinist and Climb. In 2017, she was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize, and chair of judges for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. Claire Carter is a writer, filmmaker and creative consultant, based between Sheffield and North Wales where she climbs, runs, and swims. She is the Artistic Director of Kendal Mountain Festival and the Engagement Officer for the Outdoor Industry Association. She has juried for Telluride Mountain Festival, Krakow Mountain Festival and SheExtreme Festival among others, and continues to work on the BMC's Women in Adventure competition. Her first film, Operation Moffat, codirected with Jen Randall, followed the life of the first female British mountain guide and won twenty-one international festival awards. Claire sits on the Nature Connection Index Academic Group, and is investigating how the arts can contribute to our connection to nature and allied empathy through her creative and corporate work. Heather Dawe is a writer, painter, cyclist and runner and lives in Yorkshire with her partner and young family. A data scientist who has founded a leading healthcare analytics consultancy, her first book, Adventures in Mind, was published in 2013 and her second, A Bicycle Ride in Yorkshire, in 2014. Heather's paintings and prints have been exhibited publicly around the north of England. She finds inspiration in the time she spends running and cycling in the mountains and other wild places. As her daughters grow she increasingly shares adventures in the hills with them. Camilla Barnard is an editor for Vertebrate Publishing and loves to climb, walk and generally be immersed in the outdoors. She is a keen dotwork illustrator and also enjoys practising yoga, reading and experimenting with various art mediums. She has worked on many of Vertebrate's most successful titles including There is No Map in Hell by Steve Birkinshaw and The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas.
Content
Introduction by Melissa Harrison
Part 1 VICINITY
I Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
1. Lost in the Light by Tara Kramer
2. Iceberg by Deziree Wilson
3. Steinbock by Anja Konig
4. untitled 1 by Krystle Wright
5. Enchantment Larches by Nikki Frumkin
6. Mountains of the Mourne by Penelope Shuttle
7. Fairfield from Wansfell by Paula Dunn
8. Eglwyseg by Jean Atkin
9. Affric by Alison Grant
10. Moses Trod i-vi by Pam Williamson
11. Murmuration by Judy Kendall
12. Brimmerhead Farmhouse by Paula Dunn
13. Last night I dream we walk up to the point by Imogen Cassels
14. To Reach Green Before Dark by Lilace Guignard
15. La Fuente by Kari Nielsen
16. Titcomb Bay by Lizzy Dalton
17. Los Glaciares by Caroline Eustace
18. Mountain guide dog by Tami Knight
19. She Collects Islands in the Wild Wild Sea by Paula Flach
II Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Part 2 HEART & SOUL
III Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
20. A Child in These Hills by Solana Joy
21. Squamish by Jen Randall
22. Rewilding by Lee Craigie
23. Leaving for the edge of the world by Kathleen Jones
24. This Ocean Sings by Alexandra Lewis
25. To Follow by Claire Carter
26. Cayton Bay by Genevieve Carver
27. Running by the Quay by Evelyn O'Malley
28. Straggle by Allison Williams
29. Falling by Jo Croston
30. Climber by Hazel Barnard and words by Camilla Barnard
31. No-self by Hazel Findlay
32. Memory 10 by Libby Peter
33. By the Way by Sarah Outen
34. There is No Substance But Light by Heather Dawe
35. When I Lived in a Small by Alyson Hallett
36. Ken the Cross-dresser by Tami Knight
37. Oh by Paula Flach
IV Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Part 3 WATER
V Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
38. Snow by Bernadette McDonald
39. untitled 2 by Krystle Wright
40. Through the Snow by Judith Brown
41. Ski tracks by Tami Knight
42. Counterflow by Jen Benson
43. Ystradfellte Tree Reflections by Nick Davies
44. Aqueous by Mab Jones
45. untitled 3 by Krystle Wright
46. Taking the Plunge by Anna Fleming
47. Waterfall Series No.5 by Nick Davies
48. Diabaig by Jen Randall
49. Thirsty by Tami Knight
50. Turkey Blue by Sandy Bennett-Haber
51. She Collects the Puddles and Lakes She Swims Each Year by Paula Flach
52. Llanerch Wake by Nick Davies
53. Stormy Mount Baker by Claire Giordana
VI Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Part 4 UNION
VII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
54. Running on the Roof of the World by Lily Dyu
55. Out There by Ruth Wiggins
56. She Collects the Trees She Climbed in the Month of September by Paula Flach
57. Bouldering by Kathryn Hummel
58. Bouldering at Ardmair Beach by Deziree Wilson
59. Snails by Tami Knight
60. The Grampians by Jen Randall
61. Saying Something by Leslie Hsu Oh
62. untitled 4 by Krystle Wright
63. The Climb by Helen Mort
64. Mad Hatter's Gully in Winter by Deziree Wilson
65. Unmapping by Katie Ives
66. Unshod to Meet the Flints by Polly Atkin
67. She Always Collects Her Starter Number in Stones Along the Trail by Paula Flach
68. The Wilderness by Anna McNuff
VIII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Acknowledgements
A Note of Thanks
Part 1 VICINITY
I Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
1. Lost in the Light by Tara Kramer
2. Iceberg by Deziree Wilson
3. Steinbock by Anja Konig
4. untitled 1 by Krystle Wright
5. Enchantment Larches by Nikki Frumkin
6. Mountains of the Mourne by Penelope Shuttle
7. Fairfield from Wansfell by Paula Dunn
8. Eglwyseg by Jean Atkin
9. Affric by Alison Grant
10. Moses Trod i-vi by Pam Williamson
11. Murmuration by Judy Kendall
12. Brimmerhead Farmhouse by Paula Dunn
13. Last night I dream we walk up to the point by Imogen Cassels
14. To Reach Green Before Dark by Lilace Guignard
15. La Fuente by Kari Nielsen
16. Titcomb Bay by Lizzy Dalton
17. Los Glaciares by Caroline Eustace
18. Mountain guide dog by Tami Knight
19. She Collects Islands in the Wild Wild Sea by Paula Flach
II Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Part 2 HEART & SOUL
III Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
20. A Child in These Hills by Solana Joy
21. Squamish by Jen Randall
22. Rewilding by Lee Craigie
23. Leaving for the edge of the world by Kathleen Jones
24. This Ocean Sings by Alexandra Lewis
25. To Follow by Claire Carter
26. Cayton Bay by Genevieve Carver
27. Running by the Quay by Evelyn O'Malley
28. Straggle by Allison Williams
29. Falling by Jo Croston
30. Climber by Hazel Barnard and words by Camilla Barnard
31. No-self by Hazel Findlay
32. Memory 10 by Libby Peter
33. By the Way by Sarah Outen
34. There is No Substance But Light by Heather Dawe
35. When I Lived in a Small by Alyson Hallett
36. Ken the Cross-dresser by Tami Knight
37. Oh by Paula Flach
IV Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Part 3 WATER
V Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
38. Snow by Bernadette McDonald
39. untitled 2 by Krystle Wright
40. Through the Snow by Judith Brown
41. Ski tracks by Tami Knight
42. Counterflow by Jen Benson
43. Ystradfellte Tree Reflections by Nick Davies
44. Aqueous by Mab Jones
45. untitled 3 by Krystle Wright
46. Taking the Plunge by Anna Fleming
47. Waterfall Series No.5 by Nick Davies
48. Diabaig by Jen Randall
49. Thirsty by Tami Knight
50. Turkey Blue by Sandy Bennett-Haber
51. She Collects the Puddles and Lakes She Swims Each Year by Paula Flach
52. Llanerch Wake by Nick Davies
53. Stormy Mount Baker by Claire Giordana
VI Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Part 4 UNION
VII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
54. Running on the Roof of the World by Lily Dyu
55. Out There by Ruth Wiggins
56. She Collects the Trees She Climbed in the Month of September by Paula Flach
57. Bouldering by Kathryn Hummel
58. Bouldering at Ardmair Beach by Deziree Wilson
59. Snails by Tami Knight
60. The Grampians by Jen Randall
61. Saying Something by Leslie Hsu Oh
62. untitled 4 by Krystle Wright
63. The Climb by Helen Mort
64. Mad Hatter's Gully in Winter by Deziree Wilson
65. Unmapping by Katie Ives
66. Unshod to Meet the Flints by Polly Atkin
67. She Always Collects Her Starter Number in Stones Along the Trail by Paula Flach
68. The Wilderness by Anna McNuff
VIII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake
Acknowledgements
A Note of Thanks