A Year in the Life of Glencoe

Enclosed by sweeping bastions of rock that stretch a thousand metres to touchhe sky, the North West Highland's Glencoe plunges from the wilds of Rannochoor to the burial isles of Eilean Munde. Shaped by ancient volcanoes, Icege glaciers and the attrition of wind and rain, it is a raw landscape ofwesome proportion - one of the most spectacular in Britain. Carrying on fromis breathtaking "A Year in the Life of the Langdale Valleys", noted climber,hotographer and writer Bill Birkett turns his attention to the seasonalhanges in this most famous of mountain glens. The challenging heights, inhe main protected and conserved by the National Trust for Scotland, are therovince of the rock climber and mountaineer, while down below scatteredarms and the little communities of Glencoe and Ballachuilish functionhrough the extremes of the seasons as they have done since the Bronze Age.he magical rowans bear blossom, unfurl their leaves and hang red witherries before the deep savage snows of winter blanket all. Above, beyond thenow-capped peaks, the golden eagle rules the air. On the slopes, the red