Graham Wilson's Climbing Down, selected as a Travel Book of the Week
in The Guardian, features long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh
and English hills — but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an
entertaining companion; once he was fit enough for the Bob Graham
Round, now he's the victim of a crumbling hip. So, he breaks the walks
into sections and, instead of calling on a shuttle-service of friends
with cars, takes to public transport. The walks include an Alternative
Snowdon Horseshoe, a Scottish Coast to Coast and the Yorkshire
Centurion, as well as several Peak District rounds. And a new, gentler
activity is proposed for the compulsive list-ticker: island-bagging.
Wilson's experiences are recounted in his own inimitable style, with
the usual eccentric digressions into topi such as coffin roads and
cut-hopping, Munros and mobile phones, solo climbing and slippered
pigs. Wonderfully illustrated with drawings by Gerry Dale.
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ISBN
9781906148966
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Vertebrate Digital
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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