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The Bumper Book of Climbing Fun Written by Dave Hume and Mike Blood
Reviewed by Karin Magog
The Bumper Fun Book of Climbing is an really
entertaining mix of short stories, poems, problems pages and other bits and
pieces all climbing related. There's even a photographic guide for aspirant
bumblies, a year's training plan and a psychometric test to determine your
climbing stereotype. I loved the new British Climbing Dictionary e.g. Areete:
(Geordie Sl. ) climb when ready; Avoid: don't look down, and the Shortly Before
The Incident quotes e.g.''Of course it'll pull down clear of that crack.'' The
short stories were my favourite though and really made me laugh, they're a
'slightly' exaggerated version of a real-life climbing situation. My other
favourites were The Rock Doctors problem pages which certainly provided some
extremely useful advice for common climbing situations (what do you do with that
second who is always leaving your gear behind in the crack? You'll have to buy
the book to find out!) It's a great book for dipping in and out of or for taking
away on holiday and had me sitting laughing away. The two authors have done a
great job and I can't recommend it highly enough.
You can buy The Bumper Fun Book of Climbing from
www.cliperati.com or it
is also available via Amazon Marketplace and from
www.lulu.com , as an ebook on Amazon Kindle store,
and now as an epub version to work on other non-Kindle readers from
www.ivanovella.com/books.
The basic price is £9.99 for paperback
(+p&p), and the Kindle ebook is £3.44 (not the £3.99 on the poster).
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