For Scott Montgomery (21) from Carrickfergus, it was the history of the hills that added another dimension to the experience – both human history, as fairs have been held on Cave Hill, and history on a longer time scale.<\/p>\n
“It’s interesting from a geological point of view if you think about its formation with the caves,” he says.<\/p>\n
“You can actually see on it the layers of where was what and what was covered in ice way back when.”<\/p>\n
There is history of another recent sort as well.<\/p>\n
Polly has found many prayer cards scattered across the hills during her hikes.<\/p>\n
“And people put up a lot of, like, memory plaques and things like that, because I think people get that it’s a beautiful space.<\/p>\n
“So it becomes really significant for people.”<\/p>\n
That significance is something Scott hopes the photos will help convey.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t been outside of the country much, but when I have, it makes you realise that these sort of grand green areas and all our hills and things – they’re few and far between elsewhere.<\/p>\n
“We have to appreciate what we have and make sure we defend it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Scott Montgomery (21) from Carrickfergus, it was the history of the hills that added another dimension to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-54488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}