To quote from Dickens, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Odd way to start a review but if you consider that I started reading this book at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown here in the UK maybe you’ll understand. It gave me something to read (best of times) but I then couldn’t ...more

Pete Whittaker’s Crack Climbing is both the best and the worst book for me to read during a virus lockdown. The best, because I have time to savour the depth of insight and detail and read it from cover to cover; the worst, because I’m left constantly itching to get stuck into some real cracks and s ...more