The way that we climbed : a history of Irish hillwalking, climbing and mountaineering /
By: O'Leary, Paddy.
Publisher: Cork : The Collins Press, 2015Description: xii, 324 p., [8] p. of plates (coloured) : ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781848892422(pbk.); 9781848892422:; 184889242X(pbk.).Subject(s): Hiking -- Ireland -- History | Mountaineering -- Ireland -- HistoryDDC classification: 796.52209415Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 796.52209415 OLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0089271 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Glossary of mountaineering terms -- Climb gradings -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1 : a break in a day's walk -- 2 : Comrade Lysenko and the Affables -- 3 : where does the fugitive prince lie? -- 4 : west face of the Dru -- 5 : distant ranges and domestic strife -- 6 : Fianna warriors and hillwalking challenges -- 7 : the walking spur and Freney Pillar -- 8 : coastal tour -- 9 : on five continents -- 10 : a shift sideways -- 11 : FMCI/MI rescue training -- 12 : winter on Eiger Nordwand -- 13 : Ama Dablam, Manaslu, Everest -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Hillwalking is Ireland's most widely practised leisure activity today. Rock climbing has developed to a level of technical excellence with crags in almost every county and numerous indoor climbing walls. Irish mountaineers have completed a winter ascent of the Eiger's North Face, scaled the highest Himalayan peaks and other previously unclimbed giants, and explored hitherto unknown valleys. Paddy O'Leary recounts the history of hillwalking and mountaineering in Ireland, and shows that the early climbing scene was a reflection of, and not escape from, wider social issues: from the early activists some were involved in gun running, others died at Gallipoli to the turn of the millennium, when mountaineering in Ireland was no longer the preserve of the middle class.