The Book, The Art And The Bothy

The Shelter Stone project is bringing joy to remote places

AN innovative Scottish project that combines art and the mountains is being enjoyed by keen walkers across the country. The Shelter Stone – The Artist And The Mountain has been responsible for creating and distributing more than 100 publications, filled with landscape-inspired writings and artworks, to remote shelters and huts in Britain. At least 80 of the 66-page booklets can be found in Scotland.

The locations have not been advertised by the initiative, a partnership between artists’ institution The Strict Nature Reserve and The Mountain Bothies Association (MBA).

So far there have been reports – and photos – of findings in bothies as far afield as Aberdeenshire and Dumfries and Galloway, the Cairngorms and Argyll and Bute.