Learning to Breathe - From the Depths of the Pit to the Roof of the World

Informationen zum Autor Andy Cave was born into a mining family and is now a cutting-edge alpinist with several formidable first ascents to his credit. He has a PhD in socio-linguistics and is an IFMGA international mountain and ski guide. Klappentext At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit. But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain. Zusammenfassung At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit. But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Andy Cave, Cave Andy
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.03.2006
• EAN: 9780099472667
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947266-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Extreme Sports, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, Extreme Sports, Autobiography: sport, Climbing and mountaineering, SPORTS & RECREATION / Rock Climbing