Hi all:
I'm a California-based climber headed to Scotland in late Feb to check out the winter climbing. I'm wondering if you might have some reading recommendations for me. Not guidebooks--I've already got all of those--but books about climbers and climbing. I've read Tom Patey and Hamish MacInnes, and I've read the 2 volume history of Scottish Mountaineering. And the book by the same author on Ben Nevis.
I've just ordered Crazy Sorrow, a book I've only just heard of here on UKC. We just don't have much in the way of Scottish / UK-based climbing literature here in the states, probably because we're a bunch of philistines.
Anyway, do let me know if books come up for you. I'm a novelist by trade and love armchair climbing. Keeps my stoke up for the snows to come in.
From California, where it is currently 75 degrees and sunny. Bleh.
Christian Kiefer