‘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