#iain cameron

[johndburns]

Iain Cameron: Vanishing Ice

Iain Cameron: Vanishing Ice listen to Iain talking about exploring the remnants of winter and finding where Ccotland's glaciers could be.

Save 20% – get your copy direct from Vertebrate Publishing Early one morning in May 1983, nine-year-old Iain Cameron looked out of the living room window and glimpsed a shining patch of brilliant white on distant Ben Lomond. This sparked a fascination with snow patches that would become a life’s work. A citizen scientist, Iain has written more than twenty scientific papers for the Royal…

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[benvironment]

I’ve just noticed I’ve not put links through to my last few Walkhighlands articles, so here’s August’s!

“Last week I found myself accompanying fellow lifelong snow enthusiast Iain Cameron to Creag Meagaidh for a second time. Our first visit (and indeed our first meeting) had been back in October 2014 when we headed to Raeburn’s Gully, high up in Coire Ardair in search of an unusually long-lasting patch of snow. That encounter inspired me to write an article for Walkhighlands about Scottish snow patches – the semi-permanent remnants of winter that last all the way through the summer months until the first lasting snow covers them up again in the autumn. But the article was also about the people who study them, people like Iain, for whom the waxing and waning of snow on our hills is the most intriguing of Scotland’s natural rhythms, and whose lives are in no small part governed by the annual appearance of fragmented and scattered white blotches on the hills.”

Click on the title to read the article.

[stolligaseptember]

i am so sorry, but this was just too good of a comment to ignore;

“ …such questions as sexual equality, transsexualism, the decriminalization of homosexual conduct and the equality of legitimate and illegitimate children - matters which most swedes nowadays take for granted. but public attitudes have changed more slowly, or much more slowly, in other european countries. the convention system has contributed to the task of dragging certain european states, kicking and screaming, into the twenty first century.”

-iain cameron, “an introduction to the european convention on human rights”

[benvironment]

Come autumn, the hills in Scotland look as empty of snow as anywhere else in Great Britain. And yet, there are some special places hidden from view where winter stubbornly hangs on despite the passage of summer. And, quite unexpectedly, the snow that falls in those places only rarely melts.

In my latest article for Walkhighlands I accompany self-confessed chionophile, Iain Cameron, to one of the few patches of snow in Scotland that have survived the heat of summer.  If you've ever wondered where, how and why snow lasts all year round in Scotland, this is the piece for you :)