'Sidney Webb's expression 'the inevitability of gradualism' succinctly describes the cumulative progress of the glacier,the crowd, the sand on the beach and long distance walking; tiny steps adding up mile by mile, day by day, to make a journey.'

'For me, it takes about ten days to get my mind and body into gear - tobecome a different animal. At the outset of this particular walk I was still a part of the frenetic, wheel borne world we all live in, but a week later with a hundred miles or so behind me, a metamorphosed Lambert was imperceptibly becoming an outsider, looking on from within the real, natural world of clouds, plants and insects.'

'Months later, I would occasionally enjoy that extraordinary sensation of detachment from the physical business of placing one foot in front of another. It was as though I was looking out from a conning tower (my head), through windows (my eyes), able to swivel from side to side, dtached from the locomotive engine below (my feet); as though I was on automatic pilot and enjoying a fascinating ride through the countryside.'

'My journal started out as just another part of my impedimenta, and the early sketches reflect this. But as I slowly emerged from the crysalis to become this different person, the importance of being able to talk to my journal developed. It popped constantly in and out of my rucksack as events demanded, and I gradually began to take more trouble over the way I juxtaposed writing and drawing.'

'There's no doubt that a sort of madness comes over you after a few weeks.'

The startlingly blue flower which accompanied me the entire way was idetified for me, much to his parents' delight, by an Italian boy as Chicorum Intybus (Chicory).