{"product_id":"psychovertical-9781594857423","title":"Psychovertical","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andy Kirkpatrick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mountaineers Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mountaineers Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mountaineering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePsychovertical\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of what happens to a nice lower-class kid with dyslexia who gains control over his circumstances by clinging to giant stone faces, thousands of feet in the air, for days at a time. In this case, Kirkpatrick uses his 12-day solo climb of the Reticent Wall on California's El Capitan as the experience that helps him understand how growing up poor and struggling with dyslexia and low self-confidence set him on a path of extreme adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirkpatrick's writing is gripping and highly entertaining -- even non-climbers will enjoy his raw intensity, gallows humor, and honest, self-deprecating storytelling style. This book is a Boardman-Tasker Prize winner, which is recognition given for outstanding mountaineering literature. From the judges' remarks: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is very cleverly structured....The cuts from scene to scene and climb to climb work wonderfully well -- a sort of mountaineering \u003cem\u003eDay of The Jackal \u003c\/em\u003e-- as Kirkpatrick comes closer and closer to his nemesis on Reticent Wall. And it is this climb, the running narrative of the book, that grips the most: 14 pitches of aid climbing, unrelieved by conversation with a partner other than himself, should by rights be boring. But it grips the heart further and further.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mountaineers Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47596632211607,"sku":"9781594857423","price":1981.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781594857423.webp?v=1774994536","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/psychovertical-9781594857423","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}