The Great Outdoors

MYNYDD ENLLI

“…we are all in the danse macabre, the fatal play of life and death. The stained bones underground feel our dancing measure. The brisk feet leap over our own future grave plots… on this small stage, this microcosm, in the middle of a scene, the shadow of death falls on the players.”
Brenda Chamberlain, Tide-race (1962)

T’S ONE of the most widely visible hills in western Britain, and one of the most difficult to access. An island peak dominant over its tiny sliver of land. You can see it from Wicklow, from Penmaen Dewi, from Drygarn

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