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A youth wasted climbing / by David Chaundy-Smart ; foreword by John Kaandorp

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Chaundy-Smart, David, 1962-
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[Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB, 2015.
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1 online resource : portraits (chiefly colour)
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Contents
Foreword : a foolish and dangerous pasttme -- Acknowledgements -- chapter 1. The farm on the hill -- chapter 2. Suburban rockcraft -- chapter 3. Middle-Earth -- chapter 4. To Chapel Pond -- chapter 5. Little spiders -- chapter 6. The Thieves' den -- chapter 7. Sophocles -- chapter 8. The curse -- chapter 9. Jokers -- chapter 10. Avenue des Pins -- chapter 11. Eastern burns and creeps -- chapter 12. Tell him I haven't changed -- A climbing glossary.
Summary
"David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when his high school vice-principal told him he was wasting his youth by climbing. Here, he tells the story of how he and his brother, Reg, spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become, in the words of renowned climbing historian Chic Scott, "one of the leading figures in Ontario rock climbing throughout the 1980s." With its vivid accounts of short and nasty climbs, dubious mentors, hapless climbing partners, teenage crushes, bad cars, underage drinking and questionable climbing techniques, this is a memoir of coming of age in a simpler era of climbing, told with compassion, humour and insight"--
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9781771600699 (EPUB)
1771600691 (EPUB)
9781771600682 (PDF)
1771600683 (PDF)
1771600675 (paperback)
9781771600675
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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