Salt Return

71 min

Best for: falling asleep to a story

A blizzard traps six strangers in a disused seismic station high on an alpine ridge, the radio dead and the valley out of reach. To call for help they have to coax sound from the mountain itself, striking a slab of diorite, driving iron bolts into the cabin wall, sounding an old brass whistle into the snow. A patient story of people reading rock, weather, and one another until the valley below finally answers.

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About this session

Salt Return is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.