Marc Chrysanthou writes, "Would I have perceived
The Hard Years differently if I knew Joe Brown had wild sexual romps with Whillans high on the West Face of the Blaitiere? Would
Touching the Void have the same resonance if Simon Yates had cut the rope because Joe Simpson had rejected his amorous advances?
Had he been a climber Walt Whitman might have written of the sensuality of bouldering -
"I will go to the crag by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in contact with me" – and of the disguised sexual intimacy of a climbing team absorbed in
"love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love-yielding, love-climbers, and the climbing sap."
Read the full review of
Todhra by Dennis Gray at the review section of
UKClimbing.com.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=146