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“Moffatt is a complete legend. She’s a British mountaineer who had her 100th birthday recently. She was the first ever female mountain guide in the UK. She deserted the army in 1945 when she met a bunch of climbers and became a climbing bum. Space Below my Feet is basically an account of that—of leaving the army, getting into climbing and discovering mountains. So you get all that passion and that love for the rocks, for that way of life—you know, sleeping in barns, washing in lakes. That sense of going into poverty in the name of doing the thing, because that’s the thing that makes sense. You get a brilliant sense of a mountain journey as a way of life.” Read more...
The best books on Mountaineering
Anna Fleming, Memoirist
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Master of the Ceremonies
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The Champion’s Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, And Thrive
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Heads-Up Baseball: Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time
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The Tao of Cricket
by Ashis Nandy
