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INFO Molly Lefebure's Scratch & Co., illustrated by A. Wainwright, is a witty send-up of a mountaineering book - complete with "Alpine Club" type characters, hair-breadth rescues and all the tensions and pompous tones of a Himalayan expedition. Join Scratch & Co. on their assault of the H.K.P. - a clearly undisguised Scafell Pike. Suitable for readers from eight to eighty.
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INFO Millican Dalton's eccentric existance during the first half of the 20th century is often mistaken as a grand parody. However, he really did exist and his amazing life as the modern-day Caveman of Borrowdale and self-styled Professor of Adventure is well chronicled in this established mountaineering biography.
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INFO Stanley Watson's 1935 movie High Hazard was Britain's first complete record of rock climbing. Although faced with scepticism and indifference, he created a picture that professional moviemen were forced to accept. Watson's groundbreaking filming techniques set the standard for which all subsequent mountaineering films had to follow.
