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Johnny Dawes – Moving On
Interviewing Johnny Dawes is both fascinating and challenging, as much intellectual joust as interview. Compared to discussions I’ve had with some other climbers, it’s like listening to free-form jazz rather than some anodyne boy band, the melodies obscure, sometimes dissonant and prone to sudden tangents, but never, ever boring. The challenge with Dawes is to […]
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Johnny Dawes interview….
Johnny in full flow explaining the motivations behind and the challenges of writing his superb autobiography.
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Johnny Dawes – Full of Myself
This reviewing lark is about objectivity I’m told, about presenting you, dear reader, with the unvarnished truth. However, this book is written by Johnny Dawes and how can anyone from my generation be objective about Johnny Dawes? A climbing colossus, he bestrode the eighties and those of us climbing at the time were bewitched by […]