Chasing Fog

<P><B>‘A delight for anyone whose heart thumps at the sight of dawn, dusk and hazy light’ Nell Frizzell</B><BR/><BR/><I>At first, I didn’t find fog – fog found me</I>.<BR/> <BR/> Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive – far from a simple cloud of water droplets, fog is a state of mind. As mist drifted through a copse of trees, turning a familiar place strange and otherworldly, Laura Pashby snapped a photograph and an obsession began.<BR/> <BR/> Pashby hunts for fog, walks and swims in it, explores its often pivotal role in literature, mythology and history, as well as its environmental significance. There has been a 50 per cent drop in 'fog events' in the past fifty years, fog is drifting away without us noticing and the ecological impact could be calamitous.<BR/><BR/> As she journeys to the foggiest places she can find, Pashby immerses herself in Dartmoor’s dangerous fog, searches for the Scottish haar, exper