In the early 1970s a young red-headed Sydney schoolboy exploded onto the
Australian climbing scene. Michael Law was born in era of dinosaur lines,
etriers and ironmongery but, by a stroke of luck, his appearance also
coincided with the first ripples of the free- and clean-climbing movement that
was soon to become a tsunami.
Young, quirky and tormented, Michael quickly became what many of us believe to
be the most talented of Australia’s now legendary ‹New Wave› generation of the
1970s and 80s. ‹Law Unto Himself› is his climbing story.