WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008
Andy Kirkpatrick has climbed the hardest routes in the Alps and has mountaineered around the world, including Patagonia in winter. His film Cold Haul, about his and Ian Parnell's ascent of the Lafaille Route on the Dru, won first prize at the Graz Festival. He is a popular climbing journalist and his website www.pyschovertical.com receives thousands of hits every month.
Psychovertical is a powerful if intensely personal book, well
written, sometimes brilliantly so. It charts Kirkpatrick's
fractured upbringing and subsequent escape to a life of extreme
climbing and close calls... He is a clear, spare writer, and a
highly visual one. The descriptions of climbing are among the best
I've ever read... Kirkpatrick chooses words with the same care that
he chooses a wire.
*Climber*
Kirkpatrick's autobiography sparkles with black humour...He writes
with great eloquence on the fears of an extreme craftsman pursuing
his crazy self-imposed task
*Mail on Sunday*
Thrilling ... Most compelling are his psychological battles, as
self-belief and a dry sense of humour ultimately propel him to the
top
*Financial Times*
Andy is one of the funniest of Britain's top climbers and
represents what is best in modern British climbing: boldness,
innovation, sense of humour, irreverence, commitment, and an
appetite for risk.
*Chris Bonington*
Entertaining, funny and a bit mental
*Zoo*
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