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A youth wasted climbing / by David Chaundy-Smart ; foreword by John Kaandorp.

by Smart, David, 1962-

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Rocky Mountain Books, [2015]

796.522092 S636y

Smart, David, 1962- -- Childhood and youth.

Rock climbing -- Ontario -- Biography.

Mountaineers -- Ontario -- Biography.

9781771600675 (pbk.)

1771600675 (pbk.)

xv, 247 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

"David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when he as told he was wasting his youth by climbing. How he and his brother Reg spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become leading figures in Ontario rock climbing throughout the 1980s. With its vivid accounts of short and nasty climbs, dubious mentors, hapless climbing partners, teenage crushes, bad cars, underage drinking and questionable climbing techniques, this is a memoir of coming of age in a simpler era of climbing, told with compassion, humour and insight. David Chaundy-Smart is the founding editor of Gripped, Canada's climbing magazine. He lives in Toronto"--Provided by publisher.

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