With any sculpture, the first tools to be used are the big hammer and chisel, to rough out the general shape or form before a more delicate touch brings the work of art to life. So it was with the forces that carved and formed this beautiful region: from the forces of continents colliding, which lifted the region out of the sea as the continental plate folded and buckled; to a procession of glacial and inter-glacial times, that carved and formed the valleys under an immense weight of ice.

This webpage hopes to describe this process, and to explain how the landscape was formed.

The information on this page will be updated soon, as we are investigating the geography of the region.