Climbing Down
Graham Wilson, illustrated by Gerry Dale
Travel Book of the Week in The Guardian
Long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills — but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an entertaining companion. Once fit enough for the Bob Graham Round (see Macc & the Art of Long Distance Walking), he’s now the victim of a crumbling hip. So, he breaks the walks into sections and, instead of calling on a shuttle-service of friends with cars, takes to public transport. [Click to read more]
The walks include an Alternative Snowdon Horseshoe, a Scottish Coast to Coast and the Yorkshire Centurion, as well as several Peak District rounds. And a new, gentler activity is proposed for the compulsive list-ticker: island-bagging. [Click to read more]. Wilson’s experiences are recounted in his own inimitable style, with the usual eccentric digressions into topics such as coffin roads and cut-hopping, Munros and mobile phones, solo climbing and slippered pigs.
| cover | hardback | |
| dimensions | 170x120mm, 160 pp, 8 route drawings | |
| price | £13.95 (list) | £12.50 (website) |
| ISBN | 1 902173 120 | |

