A few kind words:
“I think it's brilliant and what a huge amount of
work/research you've put
in. It's a good laugh but there are also a lot of useful nuggets
of information.
Naturally I immediately turned to my entry and I must say I think you've
been very fair and accurately and humorously catch how I'm perceived by
my fellow climbers and at the same time you are kind enough to give me
credit where it is due. As the great Tom Patey said, it's much better
to be
laughed at than ignored.
It's all a great read and at the same time very useful.”
Sir Chris Bonington
"Book arrived safe and sound - thank you very much for a
very efficient and speedy service with a lovely personal touch."
Marion Boulton
"Just a brief note to thank you for the speedy delivery of
Colin Wells's book which arrived safely this morning -- two days after
I posted the order -- I was well impressed.
I am very pleased with the book which is in fine condition and on first
glance looks to be full of interest and promises to be a good laugh.
Thank you for your kind attention and excellent service."
Robin Gay
This is a book that no enlightened mountain book collector
should be without, and any household with climbers should have to hand.
It reinvigorates new lines of interest and enquiry. Wells has been a
tireless researcher and his commentaries I found delightful, inspiring,
infuriating and enlightening in equal measure.
Ken Wilson, Climb
Magazine review
If you're a climber yourself or a lover of mountaineering
literature and history with its inter-crossing cast of names, WWIBC is
a brilliant way of looking up precised life and career histories, but
essentially it's an ideal way of killing idle moments - bathroom
moments? - with bite-sized biographical chunkettes.
Jon Doran, Outdoorsmagic.com
review
A good old-fashioned
Boys' Bumper Book of British Climbing.
Marc Chrysanthou, UKC review
This is an amusing and enaging book, and one which should be
beside everyone’s water closet.
Alan Heason, PlanetFear
review
Who's who on the cover?
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The Biggest Book of the Decade
Selected mini-biographies of nearly 700 British climbers – many are
dead, some are still alive!
Who’s Who in British Climbing contains nearly 700
mini-biographies of climbers – the romantics, eccentrics and buffoons
that have made British climbing what it is: dissolute and hungover most
of the time, with the odd unexpected burst of brilliance.
They form a world-class cast of eccentrics ranging from the most
virtuous to the most hedonistically barbarous characters one could ever
hope to meet.
At one end of the moral spectrum we have Archdeacon
Hudson Stuck solemnly tutoring his native charges on ecclesiastical
history while making the first ascent of Denali. At the other there's
Satan-loving Aleister Crowley
pleasuring himself in his tent on Kangchenjunga while his helpless
avalanched companions were crying for help a few yards away.
In between are the usual sprinkling of psychotic nut jobs, consummate
show-offs and infuriatingly brilliant athletes. Indeed, an appropriate
alternative title for this tome might be The Good, The Bad and The
Ugly. But which are which?
Ah, now that would be telling. You, dear reader, must decide.
Click here to see who's in Who’s Who in British Climbing.