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Psychovertical
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Psychovertical is the story of what happens to a nice lower-class kid with dyslexia who gains control over his circumstances by clinging to giant stone faces, thousands of feet in the air, for days at a time. In this case, Kirkpatrick uses his 12-day solo climb of the Reticent Wall on California's El Capitan as the experience that helps him understand how growing up poor and struggling with dyslexia and low self-confidence set him on a path of extreme adventure.
Kirkpatrick's writing is gripping and highly entertaining -- even non-climbers will enjoy his raw intensity, gallows humor, and honest, self-deprecating storytelling style. This book is a Boardman-Tasker Prize winner, which is recognition given for outstanding mountaineering literature. From the judges' remarks:
“The book is very cleverly structured....The cuts from scene to scene and climb to climb work wonderfully well -- a sort of mountaineering Day of The Jackal -- as Kirkpatrick comes closer and closer to his nemesis on Reticent Wall. And it is this climb, the running narrative of the book, that grips the most: 14 pitches of aid climbing, unrelieved by conversation with a partner other than himself, should by rights be boring. But it grips the heart further and further.”
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- One Hard work kills horses
- Two Bird rock
- Three The valley
- Four Pebbledashed
- Five A very brave man
- Six Windows
- Seven Max load
- Eight Alpinists
- Nine Solo
- Ten Snow gets in your eyes
- Eleven Robbins’s peg
- Twelve The knot
- Thirteen It’s all easy until you fall
- Fourteen The last time
- Fifteen Black bites
- Sixteen On fire
- Seventeen Expando
- Eighteen Fly or die
- Nineteen For Emily
- Twenty Hell freezes over
- Twenty-One Wino
- Twenty-Two Truths and lies
- Twenty-Three Fearometer
- Twenty-Four Mad youth
- Twenty-Five Music lessons
- Twenty-Six Safe
- Twenty-Seven Masters of stone
- Twenty-Eight Cold war
- Twenty-Nine Psycho
- Thirty Down
- Glossary