“The book that pushed me most into writing was Hamish Brown’s Scottish mountaineering work Hamish’s Mountain Walk, which excited me with the way the author linked bashing about in the hills, reading, and writing into an indivisible unity.” David McVey, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for September, talks to Casey Harding.
“The Glasgow groups were always the hardest work. You couldn’t tell them anything. They thought they knew everything.” Story of the Week (September 18), by David McVey.