Among the Summer Snows

'A glorious little book, beautifully produced by an independent publisher'

'This ravishingly lovely book is about thought-snow, summer snow, flight, falling, stillness, memory, loss, mountains, Time, death, survival and everything in between. It is an intense scrutiny of minute worlds, a roaming gaze into the vastness of space, intimate, introspective and questioning'

'This is the kind of beautiful writing that transcends form – in this case nature writing – to arrive somewhere improbable and compelling'

'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world... full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour'

'What shines through is a love of wild places without the need to conquer summits or tick lists. It is a love affair that is addictive... and [Nicholson] expresses it in such a beautiful way in this unusual and evocative narrative'

'His moving journey makes compelling reading. Occasionally amusing, seldom maudlin or self-pitying, and ultimately uplifting, this quest for meaning offers solace for anyone with a penchant for pondering the mysteries of life, love and loss during solitary wanderings through the wilderness'

'Made me laugh and cry within just a few pages... left me humbled as he revealed a range of other interconnected wonders I never knew about'

'Lyrical and elegiac, this debut is a tender account of an unusual fascination with the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands. Nicholson offers us a wry, self-aware take on the relationship between humans and the changed (and changing) natural world'

'Strange, beautiful, eerie and unique, this is the best mountain book I've read in years'

'A startlingly beautiful book... Mortality, aesthetic beauty, deep time and loss are themes never far from the surface in this exquisitely written book... Among the Summer Snows is at once haunting, moving, silent, and profoundly beautiful' 

'Beautifully written, it is both elegiac and optimistic, a meditation on life and death. The descriptions of the snow patches are wonderfully detailed, the determination involved in reaching them familiar to anyone who walks in the hills... Among the Summer Snows is, I think, destined to become a classic of mountain literature. Superb'

'It’s the story of a personal journey triggered partly by grief, but it’s also a study in what nature, and getting out into nature, means to us all. Nicholson’s writing on wildlife, flora and the mountain environment is detailed and immediate'