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Who's who in British Climbing
Colin Wells
其他書名
Bite-sized Biographies of Dead Climbers - and Some that are Still Alive
出版
Climbing Company
, 2008
主題
Sports & Recreation / General
Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering
ISBN
0955660106
9780955660108
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FmieGQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Who's Who in British Climbing contains nearly 700 mini biographies of climbers - the romantics, eccentrics and buffoons that have made British Climbing what it is: dissolute and hungover most of the time, with the odd unexpected burst of brilliance. They form a world class cast of eccentrics ranging from the most virtuous to the most hedonistically barbarous characters one could ever hope to meet. At one end of the moral spectrum we have Archdeacon Hudson Stuck solemnly tutoring his native charges on ecclesiastical history while making the first ascent of Denali. At the other there's Satan-loving Aleister Crowley pleasuring himself in his tent on Kangchenjunga while his helpless avalanched companions were crying for help a few yards away. In between are the usual sprinkling of psychotic nut jobs, consummate show-offs and infuriatingly brilliant athletes. The selection of folk gracing the pages has been anything but scientifically objective. The intention has been to include anyone who was born in Britain who happened to do something significant or interesting anywhere, not just in the UK.