Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

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Honing his skills as he grew, Leo would travel abroad becoming the first Brit to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park at 18 years of age, which cemented his reputation as a world class climber.

One of Great Britain's finest climbers and adventurers, Leo Houlding started out climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District literally learning the ropes tackling the many peaks and crags the area was famous for. He has since gone on to summit the world’s toughest peaks and explore the most extreme places on our planet. In September 1998, shortly after my eighteenth birthday, I made my first trip to the Yosemite Valley in California and nothing would ever look quite the same again. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

How does he assess risk and judge what level he'll take himself to be successful, and how does he balance this with teaching his own children the lessons he has learnt in some of the world's most dangerous and extreme places. Honest, raw and exhilarating, Closer to the Edge will be a 'warts-and-all' insight into the extreme life of one of Britain's best mountaineer adventurers. He has since gone on to not only summit the world's toughest peaks, but to cross continents to explore the most extreme places our planet has to offer. m. on a Monday and the A1 was full of rush-hour traffic that I noticed were braking dangerously to rubberneck at my display.

p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. he said, attempting to make an ink impression from my granite-ravaged fingertips that left nothing more than a featureless smudge on the page. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The social event of the year for outdoor people takes place across the town from 17th-20th November.Back in North Wales, I enjoyed the rest of summer with Tim, Patch and others, climbing classic test pieces onsight and seeking out ever more difficult and dangerous first ascents on the remaining unclimbed scraps of rock in the Llanberis Pass, unaware that soon my horizons were to be blown wide open and my perception shifted so far that I would never again feel the same way about those precious little crags and that special place that had been so formative. We were on our way to the wedding of a mutual close friend, held at a castle on the way back to Wales. Just decades ago women were unable to compete in traditional mountain races, yet today we see female runners winning ultra distance events outright. How did a working class lad from the north of England scale such heights and avoid the pitfalls and fatal accidents that have struck down so many of his colleagues and friends?