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Feet in the Clouds

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Feet in the Clouds

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Winner of 'Best New Writer' – British Sports Publishing Awards. Winner of the 'Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition' – Lakeland Book Awards Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and for the Boardman-Tasker Prize. An inspiring insight into one of the oldest extreme sports, and a lyrical tribute to Britain’s mountains and the men and women who live among them, this is the definitive story of fell-running.   With an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots – in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one’s own valley.   Richard Askwith’s journey takes him into a world of forbidding rockscapes, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion and stunning natural beauty, as well as his own attempt at one of the purest and toughest challenges imaginable: the Bob Graham Round, the sport’s traditional test of 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours.   Along the way, he encounters some of the most prodigious – and unsung – athletes Britain has produced, such as Joss Naylor, who covered the equivalent of four Everests in a single run. Gripping, funny and moving, this is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will understand well: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
47
Release Date:
2013-05-09
Publication Date:
2013-07-04
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781310564
ISBN13:
9781781310564
Weight:
262 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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