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Paul Pritchard gained a reputation as a climber of routes of extreme technical difficulty. In 1998, a horrendous accident left him paralyzed. This text recalls his climbing memories and tells of his fight for recovery.
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Paul Pritchard's first book, Deep Play: A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls, won him the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Ironically, it was the prize money that launched him on the climbing tour that ended on the Totem Pole in Tasmania. His next book, The Totem Pole and a Whole New Adventure, tells the story of that seastack rockfall and its consequences. It won the Boardman Tasker a second time and the Grand Mountain Book Prize at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in Canada.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Autobiographical account of the events surrounding, and the recovery from, an horific accident which changed the course of the author's life. Paul is an awesome writer and pulls no punches in his narrative, showing a skill which is only heightened by the fact that he left school without much of a formal education and has suffered a major brain trauma! (Personally, I know climbers who are incoherent without these added impedances).
This book is inspiring and the content can be rather emotional. Read it and be greatful for the life you have.
If you have not already read Paul's first book (Deep Play), I can highly recommened that also.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Despite the cover and initial descriptions of climbing, this book isn't really about climbing. It's about the lifetime of repercussions arising from one brief and terrible climbing accident. Pritchard describes the process of coming to terms with his physical and mental disabilities without self-pity and he shows amazing courage.
I am a climber, and this makes for sobering but ultimately uplifting reading.
I am a climber, and this makes for sobering but ultimately uplifting reading.
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