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Psycho Vertical

Psycho Vertical is Andy Kirkpatrick’™s award-winning biography that won him the *Boardman Tasker Prize* of 2008. Having already earned a reputation as an accomplished mountaineer and big-wall climber, he took on a thirteen-day ascent of Reticent Wall on California’™s El Capitan (the hardest big-wall climb ever soloed by a Briton), a climb around which he has decided to frame this, his autobiography.From childhood on a grim inner-city housing estate in Hull, the story moves through horrific encounters and unique athletic achievements at the extremes of the earth to the man Kirkpatrick is today in his thirties with young children, and the world quite literally at his feet.This book – by turns gut-wrenching, entertaining and challenging – appeals to the adventurer in all of us.