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Cold Wars

'I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. 'I was freezing to death.'

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'What does it take to solo one of the most intimidating climbs in the world, pushing through fear, self doubt and the knowledge that you had already failed the same climb three times previously. Andy examines the fine line between adventure and obsession. '

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Cold Wars wins the Boardman-Tasker prize

"Andy’s effortless narrative takes the reader into parallel worlds of parenthood and extreme climbing with the reader emerging unsure which is the scariest or more demanding. He is acutely observant of people: his peerless portrayal of the leading characters only matched by his depiction of alpinism at the highest level. There are lighter moments of course, this is Andy Kirkpatrick after all, and his mastery of irony and self deprecation shines through with satisfying regularity."

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Andy Kirkpatrick

The US magazine Climbing once described Andy as a climber with a “strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, with a reputation “for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the Alps and beyond, sometimes with partners and sometimes alone.”

More succinctly, Metro magazine claims that he “makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton”

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Nice little film about Vanessa François, who wants to climb El Cap this year (I lent her the gear that Karen and Phil Packer used on their climbs).  If you want to help her then send any dontions via paypal to francoisvanessa00@gmail.com. ... Read more
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El Cap with Phil Packer

In 2009 I helped Major Phil Packer climbed El Cap, helping him to hit his target of one million pounds for Help for Heroes.

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