Peak Rock is a celebration of significant
developments at the cutting edge of rock climbing in the
Peak District, from the day that James W Puttrell first
set foot on rock at Wharncliffe in the late nineteenth
century, through to modern day ascents on the area s
gritstone and limestone crags. Meticulously researched
and written by a team of local authors, this is the
story of the sharp end of Peak District climbing as told
through the words of many of the Peak s and the world s
top climbers, including: James W Puttrell, Jack
Longland, Joe Brown, Don Whillans, Ed Drummond, Tom
Proctor, John Allen, Ron Fawcett, Andy Pollitt, Jerry
Moffatt, Johnny Dawes, Ben Moon, Miles Gibson, Pete
Whittaker, Steve McClure, Ryan Pasquill and many more.
The late Giles Barker first started work on Peak Rock
then titled Peak Performance in the early 1980s, before
progress was halted by his premature death in 1992. It
was almost twenty years before Phil Kelly picked up
where Giles left off, pulling together Giles original
research and interviews, which were stored at the
Mountain Heritage Trust. Phil enlisted Graham Hoey to
work on the book, updating the manuscript with their own
interview material and other primary source information,
writing a number of missing chapters and also adding a
number of chapters, including the significant
developments of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Phil and
Graham brought in a team of experienced Peak District
climbers drawing on their knowledge of specific
developments trad climbing, sport climbing, bouldering,
gritstone, limestone and worked with them to develop
individual chapters. This resulting book on the history
of Peak District climbing is the most comprehensive to
be published since Eric Byne and Geoff Sutton s High
Peak in 1966.
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