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INTERVIEW: Mick Fowler - No Easy Way

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UKC Articles 29 Oct 2018

Ahead of his book launch event at Kendal Mountain Festival 2018, we speak to Mick Fowler about No Easy Way...

As one of Britain's leading mountaineers with three Piolets d'Or to his name, Mick Fowler is accustomed to Type 2 fun and suffering. Navigating red tape, surviving car journeys on treacherous roads, herding donkeys and yaks, avoiding bears and sewing clothes at altitude - not to mention the committing climbs and sketchy descents undertaken in remote corners of the Greater Ranges. In 2017, however, Mick was faced with an altogether different challenge: a cancer diagnosis.

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pasbury 29 Oct 2018

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Also check out his Jam Crack podcast with Grimer - excellent.

USBRIT 29 Oct 2018

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Tough lad ,I am a member of his fan club.

Greenbanks 29 Oct 2018

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Inspirational. Thanks

full stottie 29 Oct 2018

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Natalie, that's a very thoroughly prepared and well-structured interview which I enjoyed a lot. I've already read Mick's book and found it an excellent read, warmly understated and humorous, but full of excitement and insight into the places he visits and the climbing action. I had a real surprise, even shock, at the end of the book when he wrote about his cancer diagnosis (as a male in his 70's such things lurk in the background of life). I know its not a film, but as I've just passed the book on to a friend without mentioning the end revelation, I wondered if you considered a "spoiler alert"???

Dave

Chris_Mellor 29 Oct 2018

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This interview just blew me away. The words are so simple - Shit happens - and you deal with it. But the character to live your life that way is not common. Amazing guy.