Wales is a country of great geographical and biological diversity, and largely mountainous land whose eastern scarps overlook the richer plains of Mercia.

Editors' preface.

This is a preface to a book which itself is little more than a preface.

Author's preface.

I started to make notes for this book late of an August afternoon on the top of Y Garn, a peak that stands solitary along the Glyder range in Snowdonia.

Chapter 1. Corries, crags and summits.