TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY EXTREME SPORT WALL AND ROOF CLIMBING
(1905)
"(Including illuminating Appendices on Furniture, Tree and
Haystack Climbing)"
Five years after successfully launching the original in the
Night Climbing series, The Roof-Climbers Guide to Trinity, on an
unsuspecting world in 1900, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young penned an
astonishingly erudite parody of the literature guides of the time.
With extensive stegophilic references and quotations drawn from the
literature of the the last two thousand years and more, he nearly
manages to prove that Catullus and Aristophanes, Shakespeare and
Longfellow - amongst very many others - were avid enthusiasts and
exponents of roof climbing...
THE FIRST NIGHT CLIMBING TITLE
In several inter-connected sections GW-Y explores and explains
the different ages and types of building and the necessary
differences in materials used prompting the alternative ways of
tackling said. He examines the rich literary history of the sport
in global proverbs, poetry and prose. The varied costumes, the
prevalence of women roof-climbers and geographic differences in
thought are all woven together in an almost exhaustive expose of
this sport that remains so popular today but has a philosophy as
difficult to define now as then: ""The change of centuries has
brought no cessation in the perennial pestering as to the nature of
this climbing infatuation. The unenlightened still press with
old-time pertinacity for a logical exposition of the instinct which
induces rational beings to spread themselves over knobby countries
or polish uncomfortable walls; mountaineers have long abandoned the
attempt to answer, and wallers may imitate their compassionate
shrug. What philosophic system could congeal into frigid words this
harmonious exaltation?""
We have no doubt the guide will be as useful now as then but
concur with the contemporary reviewer when he notes:
""As it is probable that this review will lead to a large demand
for the work in big cities by professional and business men, it is
fair to point out to intending purchasers that the book is
theoretical only, and not intended to take the place of a local
climbers' guide, such as the Roof Climber's Guide to Trinity.""
If you're a fan of free-running, parkour, buildering and, of
course, wall and roof climbing, then this fascinating book will
make your day.
OTHER UNMISSABLE NIGHT CLIMBING TITLES FROM OLEANDER: The Bible
of All Climbing Disciplines - The Night Climbers of Cambridge by
Whipplesnaith (Cut and Paste 9781909349551 to search)
The Original Night Climbing title - The Roof-Climber's Guide to
Trinity - Omnibus Edition (Cut and Paste 9780900891922)
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