Cold Wars

Andy Kirkpatrick

ISBN 10: 1906148465 / ISBN 13: 9781906148461

Published by Vertebrate Graphics Ltd, 2013

About this Item

2013. 2nd edition. Paperback. Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize. Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on his toughest climbs yet in the depths of winter, but the savagery and danger of these encounters comes at huge personal cost. Num Pages: 272 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DFHA; 1KLS; BGA; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold Wars
• Publisher: Vertebrate Graphics Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906148465
• ISBN 13: 9781906148461
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut, Psychovertical, Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on his toughest climbs yet on big walls in the Alps and Patagonia in the depths of winter. Kirkpatrick has more success, but the savagery and danger of these encounters comes at huge personal cost. Questioning his commitment to his chosen craft, Kirkpatrick is torn between family life and the dangerous path he has chosen.

About the Author

Kirkpatrick has taken up the baton on behalf of Generation X and, at just the right moment, has said 'Yes I can'. Winner, Boardman Tasker Prize 2008 Andy Kirkpatrick has a reputation for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the Alps and beyond. He was born and raised on a council estate in Hull, one of the UK's flattest cities, and suffered from severe dyslexia, which went undiagnosed until he was 19. Thriving on this apparent adversity, Andy transformed himself into one of the worlds most driven and accomplished climbers, and an award-winning writer. In 2001 he undertook an eleven-day solo ascent of the Reticent Wall on El Capitan, one of the hardest solo climbs in the world. This climb was the central theme of his first book Psychovertical, which won the 2008 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Cold Wars is his second book. Andy lives in Sheffield with his two children.