Alastair Borthwick Quotes

Alastair Charles Borthwick OBE was a Scottish author and broadcaster whose books recorded the popularisation of climbing as a working class sport in Scotland, and the Second World War from the perspective of an infantryman. Wikipedia

✵ 17. February 1913 – 25. September 2003

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Alastair Borthwick Quotes

“Above and beyond were mountains, scarcely touched by the tidemark of humanity at their bases, impervious to pipers and ice cream barrows or to the customers of either, as aloof and untouched as the desert which hems in the airport of Timbuctoo.”

Alastair Borthwick

Always a Little Further (1939)

Mountain

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