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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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Steve Peat- Sheffield’s man of steel….
Mention retirement and Steve Peat looks at you as if you’ve suggested he drink alcohol-free lager. He’s racing as hard as ever and Clay Porter has released a film about the Steve Peat phenomenon. Then there’s the Steve Peat Syndicate, his involvement in all things Sheffield, family life. Then there’s the first time I ever met […]
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Niall Grimes interview on planetFear….
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The ascent of stefan glowacz
This business of meeting your heroes isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I remember bumping into John Cleese on a London street once and finding myself so tongue-tied he must have thought he’d bumped into a Notting Hill Billy. The bigger the hero, the more intense the giblet shrivelling fear of appearing the star-struck, […]
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The Creamer of the crop
I rely on my missus for many things, not least her ability to turn my drivel into something approximating to English. So I thought it might be worth asking her what searching questions I should put to Lucy Creamer, into which nuances of the feminine climbing psyche we should delve. What did she come up […]
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Andy Kirkpatrick, eccentric……
Andy Kirkpatrick is King of the Climbing Lecture. Funny and tangential, his subject matter often strays far from the confines of the climbing world. You never know what’s coming next. On one occasion, he arrived at the venue having left his slides at home and ended up outlining his experiences in Patagonia over someone else’s […]