Waymaking

Helen Mort is a writer, trail runner and climber who lives in Sheffield. She teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and has published two poetry collections with Chatto & Windus. Her latest, No Map Could Show Them, explores the history of women's mountaineering. She has been shortlisted for the Costa prize and the T.S. Eliot prize, and in 2014 won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection prize. Her first novel is forthcoming from Chatto in 2019. She is also the author of Lake District Trail Running and has written for Alpinist and Climb. In 2017, she was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize, and chair of judges for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. Claire Carter is a writer, filmmaker and creative consultant, based between Sheffield and North Wales where she climbs, runs, and swims. She is the Artistic Director of Kendal Mountain Festival and the Engagement Officer for the Outdoor Industry Association. She has juried for Telluride Mountain Festival, Krakow Mountain Festival and SheExtreme Festival among others, and continues to work on the BMC's Women in Adventure competition. Her first film, Operation Moffat, codirected with Jen Randall, followed the life of the first female British mountain guide and won twenty-one international festival awards. Claire sits on the Nature Connection Index Academic Group, and is investigating how the arts can contribute to our connection to nature and allied empathy through her creative and corporate work. Heather Dawe is a writer, painter, cyclist and runner and lives in Yorkshire with her partner and young family. A data scientist who has founded a leading healthcare analytics consultancy, her first book, Adventures in Mind, was published in 2013 and her second, A Bicycle Ride in Yorkshire, in 2014. Heather's paintings and prints have been exhibited publicly around the north of England. She finds inspiration in the time she spends running and cycling in the mountains and other wild places. As her daughters grow she increasingly shares adventures in the hills with them. Camilla Barnard is an editor for Vertebrate Publishing and loves to climb, walk and generally be immersed in the outdoors. She is a keen dotwork illustrator and also enjoys practising yoga, reading and experimenting with various art mediums. She has worked on many of Vertebrate's most successful titles including There is No Map in Hell by Steve Birkinshaw and The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas.

Introduction by Melissa Harrison



Part 1 VICINITY



I Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



1. Lost in the Light by Tara Kramer



2. Iceberg by Deziree Wilson



3. Steinbock by Anja Konig



4. untitled 1 by Krystle Wright



5. Enchantment Larches by Nikki Frumkin



6. Mountains of the Mourne by Penelope Shuttle



7. Fairfield from Wansfell by Paula Dunn



8. Eglwyseg by Jean Atkin



9. Affric by Alison Grant



10. Moses Trod i-vi by Pam Williamson



11. Murmuration by Judy Kendall



12. Brimmerhead Farmhouse by Paula Dunn



13. Last night I dream we walk up to the point by Imogen Cassels



14. To Reach Green Before Dark by Lilace Guignard



15. La Fuente by Kari Nielsen



16. Titcomb Bay by Lizzy Dalton



17. Los Glaciares by Caroline Eustace



18. Mountain guide dog by Tami Knight



19. She Collects Islands in the Wild Wild Sea by Paula Flach



II Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



Part 2 HEART & SOUL



III Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



20. A Child in These Hills by Solana Joy



21. Squamish by Jen Randall



22. Rewilding by Lee Craigie



23. Leaving for the edge of the world by Kathleen Jones



24. This Ocean Sings by Alexandra Lewis



25. To Follow by Claire Carter



26. Cayton Bay by Genevieve Carver



27. Running by the Quay by Evelyn O'Malley



28. Straggle by Allison Williams



29. Falling by Jo Croston



30. Climber by Hazel Barnard and words by Camilla Barnard



31. No-self by Hazel Findlay



32. Memory 10 by Libby Peter



33. By the Way by Sarah Outen



34. There is No Substance But Light by Heather Dawe



35. When I Lived in a Small by Alyson Hallett



36. Ken the Cross-dresser by Tami Knight



37. Oh by Paula Flach



IV Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



Part 3 WATER



V Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



38. Snow by Bernadette McDonald



39. untitled 2 by Krystle Wright



40. Through the Snow by Judith Brown



41. Ski tracks by Tami Knight



42. Counterflow by Jen Benson



43. Ystradfellte Tree Reflections by Nick Davies



44. Aqueous by Mab Jones



45. untitled 3 by Krystle Wright



46. Taking the Plunge by Anna Fleming



47. Waterfall Series No.5 by Nick Davies



48. Diabaig by Jen Randall



49. Thirsty by Tami Knight



50. Turkey Blue by Sandy Bennett-Haber



51. She Collects the Puddles and Lakes She Swims Each Year by Paula Flach



52. Llanerch Wake by Nick Davies



53. Stormy Mount Baker by Claire Giordana



VI Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



Part 4 UNION



VII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



54. Running on the Roof of the World by Lily Dyu



55. Out There by Ruth Wiggins



56. She Collects the Trees She Climbed in the Month of September by Paula Flach



57. Bouldering by Kathryn Hummel



58. Bouldering at Ardmair Beach by Deziree Wilson



59. Snails by Tami Knight



60. The Grampians by Jen Randall



61. Saying Something by Leslie Hsu Oh



62. untitled 4 by Krystle Wright



63. The Climb by Helen Mort



64. Mad Hatter's Gully in Winter by Deziree Wilson



65. Unmapping by Katie Ives



66. Unshod to Meet the Flints by Polly Atkin



67. She Always Collects Her Starter Number in Stones Along the Trail by Paula Flach



68. The Wilderness by Anna McNuff



VIII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake



Acknowledgements



A Note of Thanks