My Favourite Map For Life, Not Just For Christmas
Give someone a map and you're passing on the gift of imagination, says Norman Hadley. Four decades after receiving a Lake District set - now torn and crackly, but still much loved - he has never stopped dreaming of the fells. Maps are for life,...
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Looks a tremendous place, Richard. And beautiful cartography.
Makes me want to visit Glarnerland. I'd never heard of it
It's a lovely region Norman, and the Swiss maps are works of art!
It's a great place to visit in any season of the year. Really accessible from Zurich, and very quiet!
Just been looking up the geology - not 'strata' actually (which are, basically, successive layers of rock laid on a seabed or similar) - I think we're talking about the Glaurus Thrust, where a slice of landscape (a nappe) has been shoved sideways across the top by the tectonic movements – in this case Italy being shoved northwards by the arrival of Africa. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glarus_thrust has a great pic of what I think is your 'magic line'. Equivalent in Scotland is the much older Moine Thrust shoving central Highland schist in over the top of the Torridonian. And while I'm being a know-it-all, the Tschingelhörner will be named after the dog Tschingel, climbing companion of English explorer William Coolidge.