This is a constantly surprising and fascinating look at not just the mountains but about the people who work, play, live and travel there, through history and in the present day.... this books a was delight throughout

Rich in memories and beautifully written, Ian Crofton’s account of a lifetime walking the hills and mountains of Scotland, England and Wales makes for a delightful book

A fascinating and lyrical exploration of what the hills mean to those who have lived and worked among them, and to those who walk and climb among them today . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion

A wonderfully evocative ode to the high places of Great Britain

Ian has a well-honed knack of weaving a literary web linking man and the landscape . . . a tome to engross yourself in whether you are an armchair mountaineer or a tough guy reliving past glories

This book is written—beautifully—from the stance of a walker and historian

Crofton draws on a lifetime of walking and climbing across Britain and takes us on a unique journey through time and the hills

beautifully crafted and captivating... Crofton proves to be an insightful and genial guide

Skilfully weaves together personal and family stories, prehistory and history, literature, art, geology, nature and more in a glorious mix of everything the hills have to offer. This rich mix of subjects is wonderful... excellent with much to enjoy and to learn' 

Informative, evocative … a welcome addition to the nature-writing bookshelf

Upland draws on a lifetime's hillwalking and climbing, and yet it's so much more than a simple memoir. Mining rich seams of culture and natural history, it ranges far and wide in its exploration of hills as a human experience - mountains not in the abstract, but as places we've lived and worked in, climbed and dreamed about for millennia

A delightful and unusual book, both personal and impressively wide-ranging in its scholarship … wonderful … elegiac … a very fine book that will stand the test of time