Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession: The Classic Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession

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Amazingly the whole book is back to back good bits, so I might have some luck in making everyone else read it too.

Fazit: ein Buch über eine sehr spezielle Spielart des Trail Runnings, der für Nichtläufer wahrscheinlich nur bedingt funktionieren wird.Mark Hartell says that, at thirty-nine, 'I feel my age in terms of having to stretch a bit more, but in terms of speed I seem to be getting faster. With an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots - in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one's own valley.

His quest is not a big part of the narrative, but it drives the book's finish and I'm glad I stuck it out until the end. Feet in the Clouds is a chronicle of a masochistic but admirable sporting obsession, an insight into one of the oldest extreme sports, and a lyrical tribute to Britain's mountains and the men and women who live among them.Besides altocumulus being higher up in the sky, another way to tell them apart is by the size of their individual cloud mounds. in 7 days, starting and ending in Keswick Moot Hall (I did say you need to know a bit about english geography). It's worth reading anyway for his passion, and the parts that focus on his own fell running experiences. This book is one of those where you have to keep reading the good bits out to other people in the room with you! Altostratus appear as gray or bluish-gray sheets of cloud that partially or totally cover the sky at mid-levels.