Saoirse Hanley: Ladies, if your man is willing to ‘alpine divorce’ you, make sure you don’t take him back when you get down the mountain
“Alpine divorce is the rather glib name given to a phenomenon whereby one partner takes the other hiking, and then leaves them there.” Photo: Getty
The most beautiful sundown I ever did see in all my nearly 29 years of life was one I could not take pleasure in for lengthy. I used to be in the first leg of a multi-day trek throughout the Scottish Highlands with my boyfriend, and the sundown, whereas lovely, was a blazing orange, pink and yellow reminder that we had been operating out of daylight.
There was a variety of floor to cowl earlier than we might arrive at our unmanned campsite for the night time, and I wasn’t totally comfy about the hill snaking into the darkish woods. My boyfriend, a really succesful open air man, was entrusted with getting us from A to B safely (and erecting our tent when we bought there, however I held the torch).
