{"product_id":"mountaineers-books-psychovertical","title":"Mountaineers Books Psychovertical","description":"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePsychovertical\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The book is very cleverly structured....The cuts from scene to scene and climb to climb work wonderfully well -- a sort of mountaineering\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDay of The Jackal\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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":"Default Title","offer_id":43705296617643,"sku":"9781594857423","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ascent-testing.myshopify.com\/products\/mountaineers-books-psychovertical","provider":"Master Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}