A youth wasted climbing / by David Chaundy-Smart ; foreword by John Kaandorp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaundy-Smart, David, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Kaandorp, John, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaundy-Smart, David, 1962---Childhood and youth.

Chaundy-Smart, David.

Mountaineers--Ontario--Biography.

Mountaineers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : RMB, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when his high school vice-principal told him he was wasting his youth by climbing. Here, he tells the story of how he and his brother, Reg, spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become, in the words of renowned climbing historian Chic Scott, "one of the leading figures in Ontario rock climbing throughout the 1980s." With its vivid accounts of short and nasty climbs, dubious mentors, hapless climbing partners, teenage crushes, bad cars, underage drinking and questionable climbing techniques, this is a memoir of coming of age in a simpler era of climbing, told with compassion, humour and insight.

Contents:

Foreword: A Foolish and Dangerous Pastime

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Farm on the Hill

Chapter 2: Suburban Rockcraft

Chapter 3: Middle-Earth

Chapter 4: To Chapel Pond

Chapter 5: Little Spiders

Chapter 6: The Thieves' Den

Chapter 7: Sophocles

Chapter 8: The Curse

Chapter 9: Jokers

Chapter 10: Avenue des Pins

Chapter 11: Eastern Bums and Creeps

Chapter 12: Tell Him I Haven't Changed

A Climbing Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77160-069-1

1-77160-068-3

OCLC:

929152650