Winner, Mountain Literature (Non-Fiction) Award, Banff Mountain
Book Festival 2018 Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small
green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the
French Alps. Tides, Nick's second book, is the much-anticipated
follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes. Now retired
from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb.
A lot. Tides is a treasury of his antics and adventures with some
of the world's leading climbers, including Steve House, Kenton
Cool, Nico Favresse, Andy Houseman and James McHaffie. Follow Nick
and his partners as they push the limits on some of the world's
most serious routes: The Bells! The Bells! and The Hollow Man on
Gogarth's North Stack Wall; the Slovak Direct on Denali; Guerdon
Grooves on Buachaille Etive Mor; and the north faces of Chang Himal
and Mount Alberta, among countless others. Nick's life can be
equated to the rhythm of the sea. At high tide, he climbs, he loves
it, he is good at it; he laughs and jokes, scares himself, falls,
gets back up and climbs some more. Then the tide goes out and he
finds himself alone, exposed, all questions and no answers.
Self-doubt, grieving for friends or family, fearful, sometimes
opinionated, occasionally angry - his writing more honest and
exposed than in any account of a climb. Only when the tide turns is
he able to forget once more. Tides is a gripping memoir that
captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one's life
to climbing.
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