The book A Dangerous Game
The book A Dangerous Game
The book Dangerous Game is a sincere and moving story about complete dedication to mountaineering, an analysis of the climbing spirit with a strong emotional charge.
It is set in the Thatcherist era, a period of mine and factory closures and the resulting rising unemployment that hit the very social environment to which Pritchard belonged the hardest. Paul Pritchard sought a way out of the hopelessness of life with social support for the unemployed, which amounted to a modest £18 per week, in extreme mountaineering, hard and relentless as life itself in those years.
From domestic logos to abroad
With no money or future, he and his friends devoted themselves to climbing difficult and dangerous routes, installing belays as they went. In North Wales, they made some historically significant first free ascents and championship ascents, which at the time marked a step forward in the development of English free climbing.
With this experience and knowledge, the transition from his home cliffs to the big walls of the world was only a matter of time, and the first routes in the walls of Torres del Paine, Yosemite, the Garhwal Himalayas, the Karakoram and Baffin were the logical continuation of his mountaineering career.
Fellow climbers
The book is a collection of reflections on people and places, experiences of grappling with mortality, tales of adventures where climbing the mountain is only half the experience. The author's sensitive recognition of the character of his friends is captured in stories about other climbers: Pepe Chaverri, Silvio Karo, Philip Lloyd, Teo Plaza, and others.
Paul Pritchard has won the Boardman-Tasker Award, the most prestigious British award for mountaineering literature, for his debut novel.
Characteristics:
- Format 13.3 x 23 cm
- Soft plastic covers,
- color photos
- 208 pages
- Translation by Mira Steinbuch