‘He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow’ -Lord Byron, Childe Harold ‘The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seem’d a vision—I would ne’er have striven’ – Shelley Watercolours painted in the Yellow Mountains, Huangshan Province, China November 2015 © Christian Furr