Author:Clare Balding,Clare Balding
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Walking Home, by Clare Balding.
In Clare Balding's family, walking just took too long - she galloped through the countryside and she galloped through life. Then, in 1999, Clare took a call from a BBC producer looking for a presenter for a new radio series. 'Do you walk?' she asked. 'Well, I walk the dog . . .'
That series, Ramblings, is still going strong - and Clare's caught the walking bug. Now she wants her family to share some of that pleasure. Her and her brother Andrew are determined to conquer the Wayfarer's Walk, a 71 mile route. What could possibly go wrong?
Brilliant, magical, unmissable
—— Daily MailWho needs politicians agonising about national and regional identities? Clare Balding has effortlessly encapsulated all we love best about Britain
—— TelegraphClare Balding would be the ideal surrogate sister or auntie. The joy of this book is Balding's sheer rapture for life, movement and never shutting up about it
—— The TimesBalding has won over the literary world with her two volumes of autobiography
—— Evening StandardEven the most reluctant of walkers will be tempted to don wellies after reading Clare's wonderful descriptions... effortless charm
—— ExpressIn this balanced account of the greatest mountaineering disaster in Alaskan history, Andy Hall allows the full tragedy of that episode to emerge. In resisting the facile urge to lay blame, his narrative captures with gripping immediacy the intersection of seemingly small human decisions with one of the most powerful storms ever to descend on Denali.
—— David Roberts, author of The Mountain of My Fear and Alone on the IceA haunting, meticulously-researched account of twelve men’s encounter with the awesome fury of nature.
—— Amanda Padoan, author of Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest DayThe ill-fated Wilcox expedition to Denali finds an able chronicler in Andy Hall's gripping account of mountain majesty, mountain gloom, and human doom.
—— Maurice Isserman, co-author of Fallen Giants: Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of ExtremesOne of those couldn’t-put-it-down books! This harrowing story of a more than 40-year-old mountaineering tragedy is raw and immediate as it marches relentlessly towards the final, devastating end.
—— Bernadette McDonald, author of Freedom Climbers[An] exciting account of a 1967 climbing debacle. It was not Krakauer’s Into Thin Air (1997) but Maurice Herzog’s Annapurna (1952) that launched the genre of mountaineering expeditions that end in disaster, and Hall delivers his own skillful, heartrending contribution.
—— Publishers WeeklyA well-researched, vivid account of what the climbers endured ... a fitting tribute to the boys who still lie buried on the tallest peak in North America, where the snow never melts.
—— Anchorage PressThe most controversial incident in Denali history ... [a] convincingly fast-paced narrative
—— The Wall Street JournalEngaging ... Denali's Howl is a gem that any mountaineer would benefit from reading
—— Alex Kosseff , The Outdoor Safety Institute
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