UKClimbing.com have today published an exclusive excerpt from Rock Athlete - the forthcoming autobiography of legendary rock climber Ron Fawcett. The excerpt features Ron talking openly about soloing - at Tremadog, Gogarth and the Peak District.

Visit UKClimbing.com to read the full excerpt, but here's a one-liner that sums up Ron's career as a climber:

"I just had this unquenchable appetite to be moving up rock."

Rock Athlete will be published in early March.