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Feet in the Clouds
The Classic Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
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Winner of 'Best New Writer' - British Sports Publishing Awards.
Winner of the 'Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition' - Lakeland Book Awards
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and for the Boardman-Tasker Prize.
An inspiring insight into one of the oldest extreme sports, and a lyrical tribute to Britain's mountains and the men and women who live among them, this is the definitive story of fell-running.
With an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots - in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one's own valley.
Richard Askwith's journey takes him into a world of forbidding rockscapes, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion and stunning natural beauty, as well as his own attempt at one of the purest and toughest challenges imaginable: the Bob Graham Round, the sport's traditional test of 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours.
Along the way, he encounters some of the most prodigious - and unsung - athletes Britain has produced, such as Joss Naylor, who covered the equivalent of four Everests in a single run. Gripping, funny and moving, this is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will understand well: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
'A minor masterpiece' - Frank Graham, The Sunday Times
'One of the best books about the extremes of sporting endeavour that you will ever read' - Independent on Sunday
'Imagine how strange it feels not only to have read a book about fell-running, but to have enjoyed it so much that I am now contemplating trying the sport myself...a lovely little book.' - Annalisa Barbieri, New Statesman
'A rousingly readable chronicle... The book wants for nothing in terms of rhythm and drama and tug.' - Christopher Bray, The Sunday Times
'Sports book of the season - a terrific story of fell-running and obsession.' - Blake Morrison, The Guardian
'[An] excellent book.' - James Eve, The Times
'One of the most effervescent books about anything - never mind fell-running - that I have ever read.' - Dave Jones, The Fellrunner
'A beautifully written, potted history of fell-running and famous fell-runners. Definitely worth a peep!' - Country Walking