In reply to Mick Ryan - Editor - UKC:
I've not read many of the entries but I can see why this won. More or less everyone line was like a honed crimp of climbing essence.
It's a shame it's such a short essay - would have loved it to go on some more and elaborate.
>I don't need to measure my own mortality by stretching it thin against a wall of rock.
>Progression in climbing seems to have its own momentum. Your life played back to you but in rock-time.
>Nuts and wires didn't mean anything to me until I placed one.
Well done Nicola.