Unknown Pleasures

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Published by Vertebrate Publishing, 2018, 1st UK Edition, D/w, Mint.   Signed by the author on the title page.  From the jacket: “Obsessed with climbing and addicted to writing, Kirkpatrick is a master storyteller. Covering subjects as diverse as climbing, relationships, fatherhood, mental health, and the media, it is easy to read, sometimes difficult to digest, and impossible to forget.  One moment he is attempting a rare solo ascent of Norway’s Troll Wall, the next he is surrounded by the TV circus while climbing Moonlight Buttress with the BBC’s The One Show presenter Alex Jones. Yosemite’s El Capitan is ever-present; he climbs it alone – strung out for weeks, and he climbs it with his thirteen-year-old daughter Ella – her first big wall.  His eye for observation and skilled wordcraft make for laugh-out-loud funny moments, while in more hard-hitting pieces he is unflinchingly honest about past and present love and relationships, and pulls no punches with an alternative perspective of our place in the world”.  Both Andy’s previous narratives, ‘Psychovertical’ and ‘Cold Wars’ won The Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature (in 2008 and 2012).