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"When 4c is just not that hard , and 4b is approaching a rest"
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"Which cupboard are they in?"
A tale of looking for my dusty, moth eaten rock boots.
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"Psychohorizontal"
One man's quest to get out of bed early enough on a Sunday to get a space in the Stanage car park.
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"The Epic Adventures of a Bumblie"
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I chose to - drink beer, mainly.
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“Touching cloth”, travels in high places for a military man.
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It would have been 'Downward Bound' if Warren Harding hadn't nicked it already...
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"A high price to pay".
The day I managed to get into the carpark at Pen-Y-pass to climb Snowdon.
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"Touching the 'roid"
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You beat me to that by one minute
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Preposterous Bails - stories of failing to get up routes around the world.
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Stone Donkey
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"Rock Aesthete" (the legend of a climbing story) - by one who appreciates the pure beauty of contemplating hard climbs he'll never do.
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A brief history of trying.
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"Eager Dreams"
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"Into thin Hair"
This narrative of the 1996 first attempt to climb Everest by a group of trainee hair stylists ended in disaster.
'A superbly written first-person tale of loss.' The times.
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"Have a rest the Hard Way"
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I'm working on a sequel to the "The Lard Years"
"Savage Ribena"
How flasks of overly concentrated hot blackcurrant drink over too many years, have wrought havoc on my teeth.
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The Molehill of my Fear
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"Learning to Breathe" - how I learnt to control my anger whilst browsing UKC
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"Diffhanger"
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"Bunk off the Gym"
How to make the break through into climbing Hard Severe
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Savage Aroma - an account of high altitude latrines in the big ranges.
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Feeding the prat.
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Useless Conquistador
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Memoirs of a Rock Punting Man
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The Shite Spider
-impressions from a lax sphincter on the '38.
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"Alone on the A14: One man's battle to escape Cambridge"
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My Ass, Your Face. An ode to failed bouldering attempts.
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1001 Climbers’ Excuses, The Essential Bailers’ Guide
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Conquistador of the Uterus. The memoir of a climbing playboy.
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The bod delusion. In which a mid life crisis manifests itself in taking up bouldering, tops off (for power)
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'Could have done better'
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"Dumb and dumber"
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My Climbing Memoir.
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The Joy of Crux.
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"The peaks grit- the epic tale of my university climbing clubs trip to birchens edge"
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"Mountains of my Wife" - A tale of pizza, sugary drinks and type 2 diabetes.
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Space below my feet ... A sad and unfulfilled life working in a half empty office block.
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'Dope boy' - yet another epic, off-route experience
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The baaad years ... The period spent sheepshagging
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"Wot Me - Scared?"
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"Fear and Self Loathing About halfway up a Hard Severe"
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"My Years Resisting the Bosch Invasion"
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The impecunious mountaineer.
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Old. Fat. Scared. A life in well protected bimbles
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The Last Poo Mountain - Great pre-route dumps.
The Hate Years - Great UKC Brexit threads.
The Playboy of Europe - In my dreams.
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“The Tokenpole”
An Eastern Europeans 10 year quest to loose his shirt and break into the bouldering community.
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20 shades of grit
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"Shambles Amongst The Alps in the Years 1966 to 2018", by A Whimper
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One Thousand Days as a Sheep
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In reply to tom_in_edinburgh:That is actually quite poignant
> "Alone at the wall : a memoir of EICA Autobelay routes 2010 - 2018."
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The Lard Years? Mitch
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Dumb Poodle - tales of climbing with a tart of a crag dog
Numb and Number - Scottish winter climbing
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"Pull of myself".
Tales of choosing to knock one out, rather than going climbing.
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> That is actually quite poignant
The cover art is good too. The hero boldly standing on a big blue volume a full 15m up a double height 6c: back to the wall and gazing out over the arena.
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9 out of 10 climbers - did better than me
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> The cover art is good too. The hero boldly standing on a big blue volume a full 15m up a double height 6c: back to the wall and gazing out over the arena.
Yes, a lone sad figure while all around are having fun and banter. But I think the title needs changing - I don't think there were any autobelays in 2010.
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The Top-Ropers Tale
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Stoned Monkey
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"A Crawl Down the Offie"
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Climb Britain - Making It Happen
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On Edge on the Crux
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"Emptied myself."
"Crock Athlete"
"Punk on the gin"
"Touching the haemorrhoid"
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A Chance on a Pillion - Biking to the Alps with a Girl-friend
Welsh Ruck - Trevor Jones definitive book on Welsh Rugby
One Day as a Pussycat - The Life of a Top-rope Climber
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'Let's Go Faffing!' a charmless tale of naive enthusiasm and indecision.
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Just remembered one from Sophie G of this parish: "Crookrise to Grindleford"
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The Endless Knot - memoirs of my worst rope management f*** ups.
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Dogging in the UK
Could be marketed to multiple audiences, though one specific audience would not be happy with the content.
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Touching the bar
One man's story of taking hours to get down from Idwal slabs and the desperate struggle to make last orders.
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If you were an Irish hillwalker I guess Wind in the Wicklows would do OK.
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"I Chose Not To Climb"
The memoirs of a climber for whom discretion was the better part of valour.
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Into Wet Air
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