Peak Rock is a celebration of significant developments at the
cutting edge of rock climbing in the Peak District, from the day
that James W Puttrell first set foot on rock at Wharncliffe in the
late nineteenth century, through to modern day ascents on the
area's gritstone and limestone crags. Meticulously researched and
written by a team of local authors, this is the story of the sharp
end of Peak District climbing as told through the words of many of
the Peak's - and the world's - top climbers, including: James W
Puttrell, Jack Longland, Joe Brown, Don Whillans, Ed Drummond, Tom
Proctor, John Allen, Ron Fawcett, Andy Pollitt, Jerry Moffatt,
Johnny Dawes, Ben Moon, Miles Gibson, Pete Whittaker, Steve
McClure, Ryan Pasquill and many more. The late Giles Barker first
started work on Peak Rock - then titled Peak Performance - in the
early 1980s, before progress was halted by his premature death in
1992. It was almost twenty years before Phil Kelly picked up where
Giles left off, pulling together Giles' original research and
interviews, which were stored at the Mountain Heritage Trust. Phil
enlisted Graham Hoey to work on the book, updating the manuscript
with their own interview material and other primary source
information, writing a number of missing chapters and also adding a
number of chapters, including the significant developments of the
1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Phil and Graham brought in a team of
experienced Peak District climbers drawing on their knowledge of
specific developments - trad climbing, sport climbing, bouldering,
gritstone, limestone - and worked with them to develop individual
chapters. This resulting book on the history of Peak District
climbing is the most comprehensive to be published since Eric Byne
and Geoff Sutton's High Peak in 1966.
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