The Shining Mountain is a story about a girl called Pangma-La, and her father, a famous mountaineer. Because Pangma-La father is famous, he has high expectations to his daughter. In school Pangma-La is teased because of her extraordinary name, but her father tells her to be proud of being named after a shining mountain. After training mountaineering skills for a long time Pangma-La and her father set out for the shining mountain. On the plane Pangma-La had a nightmare; she was a white swan flying atop of the mountains, but she couldn’t land on them, so her wings froze and she crashed.
Pangma-La is one of the most important characters of the short story “The Shining Mountain” by Alison Fell. We know little about her physical appearance, but we know that she is Scottish: “Once there was a Scottish girl” Pangma-La’s relationship with her father plays a central role in the story. She hears a lot of good things about her father as a child and begins to idolise him. As a consequence, she becomes determined not to disappoint him for example, Pangma-La learns mountaineering skills and tries to be as tough as her father: “Let her be, she’s tough and hard as nails,’ and Pangma-La was proud.
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