- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Victor Gollancz (May 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 057503632X
- ISBN-13: 978-0575036321
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From Scree to Shining Scree, Sep 7 2007
By Mountain Charley "knew_4_you" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Climbers (Hardcover)
This brilliant novel caused some controversy at the time given its style and content. It's not so much a book about climbers, as a book about life focused on the interaction between a group of climbers.Retreating from his failed marriage to Pauline, Mike leaves London for the Yorkshire moors, where he meets Normal and his entourage, busy pursuing their own dreams of escape. Traveling from crag to crag throughout the country, they are searching for the unattainable: the perfect climb. Through rock-climbing, Mike discovers an intensity of experience - a wash of pain, fear and excitement - that obliterates the rest of his world. Increasingly addicted to the adrenalin, folklore and camaraderie of the sport, he finds, for a time, a genuine escape. But it is gained at a price... This dark, witty and poetic novel is full of the rugged beauty of nature, of the human drive to test oneself against extremes, and of the elation such escape can bring.
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