Ron Fawcett – Rock Athlete – Paperback:: SIGNED COPIES
Description: Book
Code: ISBN: 9781906148300
Publisher: V-Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Shortlisted for the 2010 Banff Mountain Book Awards
Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix.
Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and among the best in the world, part of a new wave whose dedication to training transformed the sport, pushing standards further and faster than ever before – or since. His legacy of new climbs ranks him alongside the very best in the history of the sport.
He was also the first to style himself a professional rock climber, starring in the landmark television documentary Rock Athlete, and appearing on the covers of magazines around the world. But far from enjoying the fame, Fawcett found the pressures of the limelight too much to bear, and at the end of the 1980s he faded from view.
Now, for the first time, he tells his extraordinary story, of how his love of nature and the outdoors developed into a passion for climbing that took him to the top – and almost consumed him.
Ron Fawcett on Cave Route Right-hand (E6 6b), Gordale Scar. Photo: John Beatty (www.wild-vision.com)
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“A great read.”
Neil Parker, The Climber Magazine (New Zealand)
“Muted in tone, the book is a rich pleasure: utterly real and worthy.”
Alison Osius, Rock & Ice Magazine
“A frank and engaging portrait of an unassuming yet remarkable climber; an inspirational subject and a story shot through with honesty and integrity.”
Winner – 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize
“I don't like this book, I love it. I read it twice in a day, and was still reading bits of it out aloud to myself that night.”
Stevie Haston, UKClimbing.com
“For climbers younger than me this book is essential reading; Ron is a connection to the recent past that's so close in time but so distant in terms of climbing culture, attitudes, practices and ethics. He's a living embodiment of the idea that climbing is the best training for climbing.”
Neil Pearsons, Climb Magazine
“By far and away the most engaging autobiography I have ever read – brilliant!”
rockclimbinguk.co.uk
“A fitting celebration of a climbing life well spent, of a decent ordinary man who just happened to be an extraordinary climber.”
John Horscroft, Climber Magazine
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