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    Mountain Man

    Jul 17, 2020 4 minutes
    by James Forrest

    pb Canongate Books, £9.99

    Record-breaking adventurer James climbed all 446 2000ft peaks in England and Wales in six months. Mountain Man is the story of that epic undertaking

    What was your overall impression of the book?

    I ended up finding it quite inspirational. At first I thought it was going to be a bit boring – he seemed to start out by writing a list of things he’d done – but the tone relaxed more as he wrote. He’s more experienced than he makes out at the beginning, but he sends himself up a lot and I think for people with less experience that would give them a bit of a confidence boost to say:

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