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By Jeff Connor

ISBN-10: 0948153547

ISBN-13: 9780948153549

whilst John Cunningham used to be swept to his loss of life off storm-tossed Anglesey in 1980, British mountaineering misplaced certainly one of its maximum exponents and so much forceful, but enigmatic personalities. Born in an elemental a part of Glasgow in 1927, Cunningham's existence used to be formed by means of his historical past in an East finish tenement, a operating existence in Glasgow shipyards and an eventual break out to the crags and ice gullies of Scotland, the wastes of Antarctica and the peaks of the Himalayas and the Western Alps. Drawing on interviews together with his contemporaries, associates within the mythical Creagh Dhu hiking membership and his relatives, and containing formerly unpublished pictures of first ascents, Creagh Dhu Climber is the tale of a guy whose character and achievements proceed to motivate yet that have, previously, remained untold. chiefly this ebook is a checklist of a manner – and philosophy – of existence that not exists.

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