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A LINE ABOVE THE SKY - HELEN MORT TASCHENBUCH

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ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 'A wonderful book -
exhilarating and taut  fearless in its explorations of wildness  risk  motherhood  and the
inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon McGregor'This book is beautiful' Emma Jane Unsworth
'Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control  just for a while  the tantalising sense
of being able to stay one move ahead of death' As a child  Helen Mort was drawn to the thrill
and risk of climbing  the tension between human and rockface  and the climber's need to be
hyperaware of the sensory world - to feel the texture of rock under their fingers  how their
crampons bite into the ice  the subtle shifts in weather. But when she becomes a mother for the
first time  she finds herself re-examining this most elemental of disciplines  and the way that
we view women who put themselves in danger. Written by one of Britain's most talented young
writers  A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to create what will surely become
a classic of the genre  it asks why humans are compelled to climb and poses other  deeper
questions about self  motherhood and freedom. It is a love letter to losing oneself in
physicality  whether that in the risk of climbing a granite wall solo  without ropes  or the
intensity of bringing a child into the world.

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