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Echoes : one climber's hard road to freedom
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14851
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 B85 E24
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- xv, 231 pages, plates [colour], ill. [colour]
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Scotland
- Wales
- ISBN
- 9781906148539
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 B85 E24
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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TIDES : a climber's voyage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25044
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not identified] : VERTEBRATE Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 T53 B85
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- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not identified] : VERTEBRATE Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Autobiography
- Travel
- Abstract
- Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick’s second book, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes. Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb. A lot. Tides is a treasury of his antics and adventures with some of the world’s leading climbers, including Steve House, Kenton Cool, Nico Favresse, Andy Houseman and James McHaffie. Follow Nick and his partners as they push the limits on some of the world’s most serious routes: The Bells! The Bells! on Gogarth’s North Stack Wall; the Slovak Direct on Denali; Guerdon Grooves on Buachaille Etive Mor; and the north faces of Chang Himal and Mount Alberta, among countless others. Nick’s life can be equated to the rhythm of the sea. At high tide, he climbs, he loves it, he is good at it; he laughs and jokes, scares himself, falls, gets back up and climbs some more. Then the tide goes out and he finds himself alone, exposed, all questions and no answers. Self-doubt, grieving for friends or family, fearful, sometimes opinionated, occasionally angry – his writing more honest and exposed than in any account of a climb. Only when the tide turns is he able to forget once more. Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- Prologue - living scared
- love and hate
- immortal?
- nothing more
- the cutting lap
- the rain
- the emotional tightrope
- bad shit
- deception
- the web
- cravings
- death or glory
- slave to the rhythm?
- bittersweet desire
- strange eden
- how soon is now
- you only live twice
- the cathedral
- trapped
- evening redness in the west
- into the shadow
- similar to a scottish quarry
- best before
- death of paradise
- the pitfalls of a peroni supermodel
- what were his dreams?
- balloons
- that's rowdy, dude
- over the top
- flames
- dreams and screams
- just beneath the surface
- the light of the moon
- the mountain soundtrack
- please queue here
- dawn to dusk to dawn
- threshold shift
- postscript
- acknowledgements
- Notes
- Signed by author
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival winner for Mountain Literature (non-fiction) Jon Whyte award
- ISBN
- 9781911342533
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 T53 B85
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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