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Seven Climbs

Finding the finest climb on each continent


£ 11.96 £11.96 each £ 14.95 full price
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-912560-85-1
192 pages
Author
Charles Sherwood
Publication date
7 May 2020
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'Even the most casual reader among you will by now have worked out that the whole thing is little more than a delightful ruse for having a very good time.'

Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on a quest to find the best climb on each continent. He eschews the traditional Seven Summits, where height alone is the determining factor, and instead considers mountaineering challenge, natural beauty and historical context, aiming to capture the diverse character of each continent and the sheer variety of climbing in all its forms.

The author's ambitious odyssey takes him to the Alps, the Himalaya, Yosemite, the Andes, Kenya, New Zealand and South Georgia. His goal is neither to seek glory nor to complete a box-ticking exercise, but simply to enjoy himself in the company of his fellow climbers, including Mark Seaton, Andy Kirkpatrick and Stephen Venables, and to appreciate the splendour of his surroundings. On classic routes like the North Face of the Eiger and the Nose on El Capitan, it is hard not to be swept away by Sherwood's unfaltering enthusiasm.

Also featuring fascinating historical detail about each route, Seven Climbs is a compelling account of Sherwood's efforts to answer a much-debated question: which are the world’s greatest climbs?

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Charles Sherwood has combined a thirty-year career in the risk capital industry with a love of adventurous outdoor sports. His passion for climbing began at Cambridge, where he furtively scaled the university buildings; and subsequently grew to embrace traditional rock climbing in the UK and the Alps, aid climbing in Yosemite, ice climbing in the Andes, mixed climbing in the Himalaya and ski mountaineering all over the world. His adventures have taken in everything from the Old Man of Hoy and El Capitan to the North Face of the Eiger and a ski descent of Mont Blanc. He is an occasional paraglider (which is probably not a smart thing to be), a PADI Divemaster and a fully certified cave diver, although he has retired from that last activity owing to issues around life expectancy. Charles is grossly overeducated with master’s degrees from Cambridge, Harvard and LSE. He lives in London and the French Alps with an extraordinarily long-suffering wife and three troublesome children. Seven Climbs is his first book.

  • Title: Seven Climbs 
  • Subtitle: Finding the finest climb on each continent
  • Author: Charles Sherwood
  • Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing
  • ISBN: 978-1-912560-85-1
  • Rights: World
  • Publication date: 7 May 2020
  • Edition: First
  • Size: 234mm x 156mm 
  • Extent: 192 pages
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Weight: 400g
  • Retail price: £14.95

Also available as an ebook:

  • Imprint: Vertebrate Digital
  • ISBN: 978-1-912560-86-8
  • Publication Date: 7 May 2020
  • Price: £14.95

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