Mount London

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An invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and at over 1, 800 metres, it is Britain's highest peak.This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of 'Mount London' by a team of writers and urban cartographers, each scaling a smaller hill within the city - from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m). The essays and stories in Mount London unpeel London's history and geography, reimagining the city as mountainous terrain and exploring what it's like to move through the urban landscape.Ascents of natural peaks are offset by expeditions to the city's artificial mountains - The Shard (306m), the chimneys of Battersea Power Station (103m) - the search for 'ghost hills' in the back streets, and a descent into the deepest part of the Tube. Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city.-CONTRIBUTORSMatt D. Brown, Sarah Butler, Tom Chivers, Liz Cookman, David Cooper, Tim Cresswell, Alan Cunningham, Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Katy Evans-Bush, SJ Fowler, Bradley L. Garrett, Edmund Hardy, Justin Hopper, Martin Kratz, Amber Massie-Blomfield, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Helen Mort, Mary Paterson, Gareth E. Rees, Gemma Seltzer, Chrissy Williams, Tamar Yoseloff.-REVIEWSUnflinchingly original ... Tom Chivers and Martin Kratz, with the help of an eclectic mix of contributors, have reinvented and redefined London as a space that is not simply sleepless and overwhelming, but also remote and beautifulJAMES READER, THE GREAT OUTDOORSA lovely read full of lots of interesting historical and geographical snippetsJANE'S LONDONIn London, no matter how high we climb, we will never escape from each other, and from other hillsPETER WATTS, THE GREAT WENA catalyst for assessing a city that can mean so many different things to different people ... Any new resident within a London borough is strongly recommended to read it.ANDREW HERBERT, WILD CULTURE