Climbing Days

Author(s): Dan Richards

Sports and Outdoors

In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained a mystery to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir leads him on a journey. Perhaps, in the mountains, he can meet them halfway? Climbing Days is a beautiful portrait of a trailblazing woman, previously lost to history, but also a book about that eternal question: why do people climb mountains?


Product Information

A thrilling travel book, following in the footsteps of a pioneering mountaineer.

Dan Richards was born in Wales in 1982 and grew up in Bristol. He has studied at UEA and the Norwich Art School. He is the co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, first published in 2012 as a limited run of 277 books - Letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence in his Oxford workshop - followed by a general edition by Faber & Faber in 2013. He is also the author and editor of The Beechwood Airship Interviews.

General Fields

  • : 9780571311934
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.317
  • : July 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 24mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Dan Richards
  • : Paperback
  • : Main
  • : English
  • : 796
  • : 400