topic:"climbing" found 2 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: This collection of stories, articles, reflections and more offers insight into the life of an iconoclastic business leader and itinerant adventurer. Like sitting around the campfire, sharing a bottle of wine while telling stories, Some Stories is an eclectic portrait of a unique life well lived. (from Patagonia website)

Contents: North America Wall, Yosemite Valley -- Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley -- Yosemite Valley, California -- Patagonia -- Doug Tompkins -- Flamingos, Patagonia -- Sandhill cranes, Nebraska -- Fiordo de las Montan~as, Chile -- Headwaters of Lago Inexplorado, Chile -- Bonefishing in the Bahamas -- Hatchery fish being released into San Francisco Bay -- Coastal wolves, British Columbia -- 12,000 young voters, Washington, DC.

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Physical Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

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

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