The last, ice-cold cry: “Wild Wellness” in the seven-degree warm water of the Ey Burn mountain stream
Image: Andreas Lesti
A beach holiday in the Scottish Highlands is a bizarre pleasure, one thinks. Until you dip into one of the mountain streams around Braemar.
Nafternoon in the Scottish Highlands, near the town of Braemar in the Cairngorms National Park. We overlook two mountain streams, the Allt Connie Fall and the Ey Burn, which lap in a deep pool between the rocks. There is still snow on top of the Munros.
“How cold is the water?”
“It’s seven degrees warmyesterday it was five.”
“And if I go in, how many years younger will I come out?”
“What do I have to say to get you in? Five?”
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