Country diary: An ocean of cloud obscures the valley and villages | Carey Davies
27. prosinece 2022 11:00
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Beamsley Beacon, Wharfedale: The legacy of vast ice leviathans is still vividly evidentWharfedale is dreaming of the ice age again. The shape of the glacier that once scraped its way through the valley is recreated in the form of a river of cold cloud that, for today at least, has eradicated 10,000 years of human civilisation.Everything below the 200-metre contour is lost under the blanket of freezing fog, but the tops of the surrounding hills and moors poke free, and from Beamsley Beacon I look out across an archipelago of upland islands above an ocean of cloud. The "sea" has momentarily obliterated the pastoral patchwork of the valley below, the villages, the Augustinian abbeys, the A59; Leeds and Bradford, to the south-east, have been swamped too. Continue reading...
Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/country-diary-an-ocean-of-cloud-obscures-the-valley-and-villages
Zdroj: The Guardian
