ON TOP OF THE WORLD
THE HIGHER UP MONT Blanc you walk, the more otherworldly the landscape becomes. I’m beyond the tree line, at 2,400 metres, close to the refuge of the Nid d’Aigle, where the grass peters out and the rocks take over. A fellow hiker comments that it feels like a set from – I half expect a White Walker to appear through the mist hanging over the glacier of Bionnassay, an
