Sorry but it just seems to be the written verbatum of E11. Claire says of this period, “You can tell [Dave’s] not really talking to you. He’s going through moves in his head, and he’s just kind of glazing over. Every waking moment, almost every sleeping moment. ... It takes over my life, as well as his.” Claire and Dave MacLeod first met when they went to see the same band in high school; he was 16, and she was 15. By early 2006, they had been together for a dozen years, married for five, but they had never faced a challenge like Rhapsody. Their tiny flat, says Claire, filled with “unbearable tension.” She was the breadwinner, commuting into Glasgow to a job she didn’t much like.

Congratulations - you've managed to pick two very small sections which do repeat some of the elements of E11. Hardly surprising when it's such a milestone in his life. I thought it was a really good article. It's only a shame that none of the British mags manage anything remotely similar - why does it take an American mag to produce a decent profile of one of our best climbers?

Really? I thought the article covered a lot more than the film.

Its one of my bug bears of Brtish climbing mags that they seem afraid to publish profiles of climbers. Presumably we, the UK climbing public, think its all about the climb than the climber. I've read few interesting profiles in British climbing media.