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Andy Kirkpatrick has climbed the hardest routes in the Alps and has mountaineered around the world, including Patagonia in winter. His film Cold Haul, about his and Ian Parnell’s ascent of the Lafaille Route on the Dru, won first prize at the Graz Festival. He is a popular climbing journalist and his website www.andy-kirkpatrick.com receives thousands of hits every month.

Psychovertical was awarded the Boardman Tasker Prize 2008, the Banff Mountain Festival Grand Prize 2008, and the American Alpine Club Literary Award.

Praise for Psychovertical

“Kirkpatrick’s autobiography sparkles with black humour. . . . He writes with great eloquence on the fears of an extreme craftsman pursuing his crazy self-imposed task.”

Stephen Venables, “Books of the Year,” Mail on Sunday

“Thrilling. . . . Most compelling are his psychological battles, as self-belief and a dry sense of humour ultimately propel him to the top.”

Financial Times

“Always entertaining, often amusing, Psychovertical is all about what has gone into the making of one of the world’s great climbers and a fascinating glimpse into his very vertical world.”

Adventure Travel

“It is his wit and an effusive enthusiasm for climbing and travelling to regions totally inaccessible to the average punter that make this so readable. The man seems to have an insatiable appetite for putting himself in preposterous danger, which rewards the armchair reader very nicely.”

Irish Times

“Psychovertical is a powerful if intensely personal book, well written, sometimes brilliantly so. [Kirkpatrick] is a clear and spare writer, and a highly visual one. The descriptions of climbing are among the best I’ve ever read.”

Ed Douglas, Climber Magazine