Feeding the Rat A Climber's Life on the Edge

by Alvarez, A.; Willis, Clint

• ISBN13: 9781560253273
• ISBN10: 1560253274
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-12
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Feeding the Rat is the story of an extraordinary man: climbing legend Mo Anthoine, who found his greatest joy in adventures that tested the limits of human endurance. That passion for "feeding the rat" made him the unsung hero of dozens of horrifying epics in the mountains, including the famous Ogre expedition that almost killed Doug Scott and Sir Chris Bonington. The book is also the story of the extraordinary friendship between Mo Anthoine and A. Alvarez the distinguished poet, journalist, and critic whose deeply moving portrait of his longtime climbing partner is a classic of adventure literature.

Author Biography

A. Alvarez is the author of the acclaimed Where Did It Go All Right: A Memoir as well as the classic The Savage God: A Study of Suicide, The Biggest Game in Town, and several other works. His work has long appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Llanberis	p. 1
The Dolomites	p. 11
Epics	p. 21
Tyn-y-Ffynnon	p. 31
Road to Roraima	p. 41
Feeding the Rat	p. 49
The Pleasure Principle	p. 67
Snowdon Mouldings	p. 77
The Mission	p. 89
The Old Man of Hou	p. 99
Everest	p. 127
Epilogue	p. 139
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