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Twenty years since it was first published, Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith remains the definitive story of fell-running and a modern sports classic.
Twenty years since it was first published, Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith remains the definitive story of fell-running and a modern sports classic.
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Feet in the Clouds - A Story of Fell Running and Obsession - Richard Askwith - Aurum Press 20th Anniversary Edition

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Feet in the Clouds - A Story of Fell Running and Obsession - Richard Askwith - Aurum Press 20th Anniversary Edition

Season:Previous Season

Brand:Published

Code:CTJ171

Richard Askwith's journey takes him into a world of forbidding rocky hills, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion and stunning natural beauty, as well as one of the sport's purest and toughest challenges: the Bob Graham Round, running 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours. Along the way, he encounters some of the most prodigious - and unsung - athletes that Britain has produced, such as Joss Naylor, who covered the equivalent of four Everests in a single run.

Gripping, funny and moving, Feet in the Clouds is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will understand well: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime. With a fully revised epilogue and an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots - in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one's own valley.

Feet in the Clouds won the Best New Writer prize at the British Sports Publishing Awards (2005). It also won the Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and for the Boardman-Tasker Prize.

What the critics said:
“A minor masterpiece”Sunday Times

“Sports book of the season – a terrific story” Blake Morrison,The Guardian

“A wonderful, funny and surprisingly moving tale”Daily Telegraph

“A lovely little book”The New Statesman

“A beautifully told and at times very personal story”Scotland on Sunday

“One of the best books about the extremes of sporting endeavour that you will ever read”The Independent on Sunday

“A wonderful evocation… I’ve readFeet In The Cloudsfour or five times now… I always end it rallied, inspired, cheered” Robert Macfarlane, author ofMountains of the Mind

“A truly superb book… Inspirational as well as engrossing”Westmorland Gazette



Page Size:129 x 197 mm
No of Pages:352
Publisher:Aurum Press
ISBN13:9780711291928
Author:Richard Askwith
Published Date:July 2024
Edition:PB Reissue , 2024
Binding:Paperback
Illustrations:8 pages of b&w photos
Weight:250g
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