11 December: International Mountain Day

Today is International Mountain Day. Here are 10 quotes about mountains.

1. Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. David McCullough Jr.
2. You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way! Dr Seuss
3. The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir
4. It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Edmund Hillary
5. Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake
6. Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous. Reinhold Messner
7. Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. Anon
8. Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. Barry Finlay
9. Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac
10. Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjold

Golden Thread

Terry Kennedy is inexplicably and inexorably drawn to the small town of Fiveswood as a place to live and work after university. He is sure he has never visited the town before, but when he arrives there, it seems oddly familiar.

Fiveswood has a rich and intriguing history. Local legends speak of giants, angels, wolves, a local Robin Hood, but most of all, a knight in golden armour. Fiveswood's history also has a dark side - mysterious deaths blamed on the plague, a ghostly black panther, and a landslide which buried the smugglers' caves.

Terry buys an apartment in The Heights, a house which has been empty for decades, since the previous owner disappeared. Now he has finally been declared dead, developers have moved in and turned it into six flats. Terry has the odd feeling he has lived in this enigmatic house before. But that is not all. Since childhood, Terry has had recurring, disturbing dreams which have been increasing in frequency so that now, he has them almost every night. To his dismay, the people from his nightmares are his new neighbours.

Except, that is, for Eleanor Millbrook. She is refreshingly unfamiliar. After Terry saves her from a mysterious attacker, they become close. However, Terry's nightmares encroach more and more on his waking life, until they lead him to a devastating discovery about who he really is.

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