Capture Me, Myself I: The Dark Arts Of Big Wall Soloing Originated By Andy Kirkpatrick Provided As Digital
Me, Myself I the forbidden dark art of roped soloing, for climbers who either need to know in order to make the ultimate climb come true, or those who just like technique 'nerdiness'.
Me, Myself I draws on fifteen years of experience on these solo projects, as well as nearly thirty years of general climbing experience, to bring the most specialised big wall instruction book ever written for climbers.
Rope soloing will be undertaken by less thanof climbers, yet these skills open up the potential for the equivalent of an 'Iron Man' for climbers, to scale the biggest walls alone and safely.
Andy Kirkpatrick is a world class author and climber, The unique knowledge contained in this book on the rare art of solo climbing can be found nowhere else but in this book.
La obra que cualquier escalador que quiera ir en solitario debería leer Great book with good diagrams, just a bit too expensive.
Good read if you are considering soloing at any level, This is the book of dark arts, solo climbing with a rope, Entertaining and many useful Kirckpatricknessy techniques, Wait for his next book something big wall climbing or get this book before, The chapter about how to descent really made me feel the pain in Andys legs and feet, Highly recommend it as a entertaining instruction book, Not very useful though if you are not inspiring on big wall solo climbing, but all the same, very entertaining!
I havent climbed Everest, skied to the poles, or sailed single handed around the world.
The goals I set out to accomplish arent easily measured or quantified by world records or firsts, The reasons I climb, and the climbs do, are about than distance or altitude, they are about breaking barriers within myself,
Andy Kirkpatrick was born and raised on a council estate in Hull, one of the UKs flattest cities, and suffered from severe dyslexia, which went undiagnosed until he was.
Thriving on this apparent adversity, Andy transformed himself into one of the worlds most driven and accomplished climbers, and an award winning writer.
The US magazine Climbing once described Andy as a climber with a strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult, with a reputation for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the Alps and beyond, sometimes with partners and sometimes alone.
Andys specialty is big wall climbing and winter expeditions, which involves pitting himself against a vertical climbs of over one thousand metres almost three times as high as the Empire State Building, often in temperatures as low as minusC.
Andy has scaled Yosemites El Capitan one of the most difficult rock walls in America over ten times, including two solo ascents, One of these ascents was
aday solo of the Reticent Wall, viewed at the time as perhaps the hardest climb of its type in the world.
Inhe undertook one of the hardest climbs in Europe: aday winter
ascent of the West face of the Dru, This one thousand metre pillar pushed him and his partner to their limits and was featured in the award winning film Cold Haul.
Andy has also taken part in three winter expeditions to Patagonia, The stories that Andy has brought back from these expeditions have become modern classics in the climbing world and have brought new meaning to the words epic and cold.