Climbing Days
eBook - ePub

Climbing Days

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eBook - ePub

Climbing Days

About this book

In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained mysterious to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir, Climbing Days, leads him on a journey. Perhaps, in the mountains, he can meet them halfway?

Following in the pair's footholds, Dan begins to travel and climb across Europe, using Dorothy's book as a guide. Learning the ropes in Wales and Scotland, scrambling in the Lake District, scaling summits in Spain and Switzerland, he closes in on the serrate pinnacle of Ivor and Dorothy's climbing lives, the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais.

What emerges is a beautiful portrait of a trailblazing woman, up to now lost to history - but also a book about that eternal question: why do people climb mountains?

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9780571311941
Edition
0
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Hope
  7. Cambridge
  8. The Pinnacle Club
  9. The Cairngorms
  10. Barcelona and Catalonia
  11. Switzerland
  12. The Lake District
  13. The Dent Blanche
  14. Epilogue
  15. Appendices: I Obituaries
  16. II
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Abbreviations
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. By the Same Author
  22. Copyright