Higher Education: A Big Wall Manual
Kirkpatrick's writing is gripping and highly entertaining -- even non-climbers will enjoy his raw intensity, gallows humor, and honest, self-deprecating storytelling style. This book is a Boardman-Tasker Prize winner, which is recognition given for outstanding mountaineering literature. From the judges' remarks:
€œThe book is very cleverly structured....The cuts from scene to scene and climb to climb work wonderfully well -- a sort of mountaineering Day of The Jackal -- as Kirkpatrick comes closer and closer to his nemesis on Reticent Wall. And it is this climb, the running narrative of the book, that grips the most: 14 pitches of aid climbing, unrelieved by conversation with a partner other than himself, should by rights be boring. But it grips the heart further and further.€Â
Country | USA |
Brand | Mountaineers Books |
Manufacturer | Mountaineers Books |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 235449 |
ReleaseDate | 2012-08-27 |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9781594857423 |