In reply to UKC Gear:
Some great climbing books on the list and above, but it HAS been an especially bumper year or two for biographies and autobiographies - McLure, Boysen, Livesey, Lines, McIntyre to add to a fine collection in recent years - Fawcett, Radtke, Dawes, Moffatt, Hill, Cave, Pritchard etc all of which have generated a mix of emotions in this reader: regret (not trying hard enough and wasting good climbing years); envy (at aptitude and ability), admiration and respect (at determination, commitment and motivation, sweaty palms (at some of the blow by blow accounts) and now and again, exasperation (when basic biographical info and context is simply omitted).
I've estimated that over the years I've read upwards of 60 biographies and autobiographies of individual climbers, and wonder what 2015 will bring. Or WHO should it bring? When does a climber write their story, or have it written? In celebrity world it seems that being 21 is old enough, but what about climbers? Whose story are you looking forward to hearing?
Dave