The Climbing Essays

Jim Perrin is Britain’s finest mountaineering and outdoor writer with regular,
outstanding features in the Daily Telegraph, Climber and TGO.
About the author Long recognised as one of Britain’s finest mountain writers,
this collection brings together the best of Jim Perrin’s essays and articles
on climbing. Perrin has selected these from four decades of describing and
commenting on the experience of rock-climbing and the characters of the
climbing community and includes rare, uncollected pieces, substantial new
essays, ones that have been long out of print, and a lengthy and frank
autobiographical introduction from one of the wild and subversive cult and
grassroots figures of the British sport.