Peter Hartley
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Peter Hartley

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Peter Hartley was a fine art restorer specialising mainly in the conservation of paintings from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and he took early retirement more than ten years ago. He has always been fond of foreign travel, having visited over sixty countries around the world and all seven continents at least twice. Very keen on rock-climbing and mountaineering in the European Alps in his younger days, a spectacular fall involving a vertical interval of three thousand feet from near the top of an ice-bound Mount Fuji in Spring 1985, and the ensuing brain haemorrhage among many other injuries, put paid to this. But he continued to walk/trek up other easier mountains like Mont Blanc, Mount Kinabalu and Kilimanjaro. He has always been interested in wild, lonely and desolate places, having visited Antarctica, Spitsbergen, northern Norway, the Faroe Islands and, in the UK, the remote straths of Sutherland. He made several visits to climb all the hills of the Outer Hebrides and to reach their long-deserted villages. An interest in cryptic crosswords engendered a wardrobe-full of prizes, including a seven-foot high stack of dictionaries, of which he already had an inexplicable superfluity, persuading him eventually to call it a day (won more through luck than ability, he hastens to add). A new departure dating only from the past year or so has been writing poetry, and not just poetry but poetry that rhymes, scans and has metre.
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