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Do you want to climb a big wall, wake with a start in the dark clipped to a ledge the size of a dustbin lid? Do you have dreams of nailing pin scar cracks a kilometre up, or maybe hand jamming your way to victory? Have you read other books, watched endless videos, asked around but still dont have a bloody clue how to go about it? Yes you can climb 5.12 but youve been shut down by hauling? Maybe youve never even set foot on a big wall because the weight of questions cannot be resolved, even though youve read all the books. If only there was a way to long jump some of that learning curve. Behind the book Last year, sat on the El Caps East Ledges descent, someone asked me how many days Id spent up on big walls in my life. I did a quick count, my brain a bit fried after nineteen days soloing South Seas, thinking about the walls and faces, totting up the numbers on battered fingers. The rough answer was about three hundred days, maybe over a year if I included bivys and camps at the bases of walls. If I threw in just being in the mountains then it would be twice as long. You must understand rock at the granular level? they said. I thought back to the last two weeks, where placing a cam

Author

Andy Kirkpatrick

Publisher

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781999700591

Rating

4.9 / 5 (75 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14