Robert Forster

Which I interrupted to read The Electric Hotel, which I'm about probably 200 pages in.

And that's about mountains and mountain climbing and the development of mountain, alp climbing,

through the 17th and 18th and 19th century.

And so that's going on, but also it's about how people in Europe reacted to landscape and to the mountains and how the mountains were once something that was avoided and then became romantic places

And people started to wander mountains in the 18th and 19th century.

And he writes very, very beautifully written.

So it's like the Hugo Vickers book.

I just sort of tend to go to things that I don't do.

And I just sort of, if they're well written, I'll follow a writer where they want to take me.

He can take mountains and go into art and literature and science, you know, like he's, this knowledge comes through, like you were saying with the underworld, you know, underground.

He does the same where he can, it's just not, you know, hiking boots on and going up and down mountains.

He sort of puts it in fantastic context.

Absolute pleasure.

Absolute pleasure.

Thank you very much for inviting me.