Non-highlanders will have to look up the term, no doubt.
The wind is rising and ice cold rain is starting to lash the face of the middle-aged lady climber as she looks desperately for shelter. Daylight is fading fast and a storm is obviously on the way. Conditions can change fast in the mountains and this is a radically different situation from the clement circumstances reigning when the climbing party first set off from the village below - a party, husband included, with which she has lost contact.
She has no tent or survival equipment - the climb was only supposed to last the afteroon. Panic is just beginning to make itself felt when, on cresting a rise, she makes out the unexpected shape of something man-made - a mountain hut.
Filled with sudden hope, she rushes over the intervening bumpy ground, stumbling and falling precisely as she nears salvation. As she rises wearily to her feet, bruised and soaked, she suddenly notices there is a flickering light in the hut's solitary window...
The wind is rising and ice cold rain is starting to lash the face of the middle-aged lady climber as she looks desperately for shelter. Daylight is fading fast and a storm is obviously on the way. Conditions can change fast in the mountains and this is a radically different situation from the clement circumstances reigning when the climbing party first set off from the village below - a party, husband included, with which she has lost contact.
She has no tent or survival equipment - the climb was only supposed to last the afteroon. Panic is just beginning to make itself felt when, on cresting a rise, she makes out the unexpected shape of something man-made - a mountain hut.
Filled with sudden hope, she rushes over the intervening bumpy ground, stumbling and falling precisely as she nears salvation. As she rises wearily to her feet, bruised and soaked, she suddenly notices there is a flickering light in the hut's solitary window...