Formation dancing with space blankets – and other wild ways to climb a mountain

They impersonate flowers, they trill like birds and they marvel at ant-hills. Our writer dons her boots and heads for the Highlands – to meet the artists taking the macho out of the mountainA cloud is touching the tip of the mountain up ahead and, even though it’s the end of May, pockets of snow still dot the horizon. The rain, which is falling steadily, runs off Simone Kenyon’s jacket sleeve, landing in fat drops on the pages of the book she’s holding. And yet we sit, th