The Blind Man of Hoy

✍ Scribed by Red Szell

• Book ID: 100251324
• Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
• Year: 2015;1975
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 588 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1910124222

✦ Synopsis

'From the moment I watched a documentary of Chris Bonington and Tom Patey climb the perpendicular flanks of the Old Man of Hoy I knew that my life would not be complete until I had followed in their footholds. That was in 1983 when I was thirteen. Within months I was tackling my first crags and dreaming of standing atop Europe's tallest sea stack with the Atlantic pounding 450 feet below. Those dreams went dark at nineteen when I learned I was going blind. I hung up my harness for twenty years and tried to ignore the twinge of desire I felt every time The Old Man appeared on TV.'