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I want to read more about climbing from people who approach it from a more philosophical viewpoint, not from just a technical pov.

JR style— seeing it as a way of life, or taking a different perspective on the stone massaging. Philosophising about life and climbing all in one. 
 

anyone pamphlets or novels or blogs i should know? 
any authors I should know of? 

I'm assuming you've watched the film.

I think possibly the finest discussion about the philosophy of climbing mountains can be found here

youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ&

You could try David Craig's 'Native Stones'

"freedom comes on a rope"!

You could do worse than start with the two classic anthologies, The Games Climbers Play and Mirrors in the Cliffs. Pick your way through them, and you'll find all kinds of perspectives on the climbing life.

Maybe have a wander around the Footless Crow blog?

Yeah good shout

the Kathleen turner one?

Anything by Johnny Dawes should fit the bill.

You might find a book called 'Climbing, Philosophy For Everyone, Because It's There' edited by Stephen E Schmid and published by Wiley-Blackwell useful/interesting

I didn't even need to click the link to know what would be. 

Cant find Stone monkey, want to watch it again so bad. 

Up for reading his book. is it worth it? 

This is too high fallutin for me. way over my head

Yeah, I enjoyed his book. Written in his usual enigmatic style, so possibly not to everyone's taste, but some great writing in there. Interesting to see the background that he came from too. The family home wasn't exactly your average 3 bedroom semi.

'Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain. Why is he climbing the mountain? Because he's in love.'

I agree, it's at the cerebral end of why we climb but persevere with it

Can’t grasp it 

Johnny's 'rants'

I'm not a rock star - the rock is the star.

I enjoyed his book too. The way he describes how the slate was formed. He definitely loves the rock on a level that most of us don't.

You might be interested in these two blog posts by Cursed Climbing:

https://cursedclimbing.substack.com/p/terminology-breaking-technology

https://cursedclimbing.substack.com/p/technology-shocks

The works of W H Murray for the romantic viewpoint.

John Long is good value too.

The Dawes book is indeed brilliant.

Any of Jim Perrin's essay collections.

Niall Grimes Jam Crack podcast site contains some absolute gems.