"What I've Learned in the Mountains," with Andy Kirkpatrick

Join us  for a special online chat with elite climber Andy Kirkpatrick. Andy's  climbing career has specialized in winter climbs and big walls – Chamonix, Antarctica, Patagonia, Greenland, Alaska, and, his first love, Yosemite’s El Capitan, which he has climbed more than 30 times, including 5 solos and 2 one-day ascents. In this edition of the Mountaineers Books Web Series, Andy will discuss climbing tips that he has collected in his book 1001 Climbing Tips – the “stuff that works for me . . . those little things that can make a tiny, or massive, improvement to your climbing.”

Climbing magazine 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.”

In addition to 1001 Climbing Tips, Andy is the author of the adventure tales, Psychovertical, which won the 2008 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, and Cold Wars, which won the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize. He has also authored a technical book on soloing titled Me, Myself and I, as well as Unknown Pleasures, a collection of his works. 1001 Climbing Tips includes advice for big wall, ice, mixed, and alpine climbing, as well as safety, training, packing and travel and much more.

Andy will be joining this web event from his home in Ireland. His presentation will run about 30 minutes, followed by a 30 minute question and answer period. Feel free to register for the event even if you can’t attend on March 21, because in the days following Mountaineers Books will email you a link to the recorded presentation. Click below to register.

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