A Youth Wasted Climbing

Nonfiction, Sports, Outdoors, Mountaineering, Biography & Memoir
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Author: David Chaundy-Smart ISBN: 9781771600682
Publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books Publication: May 4, 2015
Imprint: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books Language: English
Author: David Chaundy-Smart
ISBN: 9781771600682
Publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Publication: May 4, 2015
Imprint: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Language: English

David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when his high school vice-principal told him he was wasting his youth by climbing. Here, he tells the story of how he and his brother, Reg, spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become, in the words of renowned climbing historian Chic Scott, “one of the leading figures in Ontario rock climbing throughout the 1980s.”

With its vivid accounts of short and nasty climbs, dubious mentors, hapless climbing partners, teenage crushes, bad cars, underage drinking and questionable climbing techniques, this is a memoir of coming of age in a simpler era of climbing, told with compassion, humour and insight.

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David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when his high school vice-principal told him he was wasting his youth by climbing. Here, he tells the story of how he and his brother, Reg, spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become, in the words of renowned climbing historian Chic Scott, “one of the leading figures in Ontario rock climbing throughout the 1980s.”

With its vivid accounts of short and nasty climbs, dubious mentors, hapless climbing partners, teenage crushes, bad cars, underage drinking and questionable climbing techniques, this is a memoir of coming of age in a simpler era of climbing, told with compassion, humour and insight.

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