London, Unwin Hyman, 1988, 1st edition. 201 pp, 70 b/w photographs, and index. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine.
The author, Paul Nunn, has climbed for thirty years - from rock climbing in Britain, through an Alpine apprenticeship to a decade of Himalayan mountaineering, he is also widely known for his climbing journalism. This thoughtful, fascinating and sometimes funny book is a selection of Nunn's writing about climbing.
He has been rock climbing in Britain, through an alpine apprenticeship to a decade of Himalayan mountaineering. Some of the contents are: The Peak, Gwynedd, The Lake District, Scotland, The Alps, A Global Scale, Mirrors on Men and Events, Film illusion, Back to the Hills and Around Everest, plus an Index.