Slatehead: The Ascent of Britain's Slate-climbing Scene

by Peter Goulding

Overview

Join Peter as he ascends Orangutan Overhang, Supermassive Black Hole and Mental Lentils in the disused Dinorwig slate quarries of Snowdonia. Part creative nonfiction, part memoir and sports documentary, Slatehead is set in Thatcher's Britain and the present day. This was Thatcher's lost generation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781916150140
Publisher:	New Welsh Review
Publication date:	06/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	870
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Peter Goulding is a climber from the north of England. He has spent most of his working life in pubs, kitchens and on building sites. He currently works at Center Parcs as an instructor and is an alumnus of UEA.

Table of Contents

1   You Are Now Leaving the Future

2   Mental Lentils

3   Comes the Dervish

4   Turn of the Century

5   Gideon 

6   Flat

7   Opening Gambit

8   Twll Mawr

9   Fresh Air

10  Bluebottle

11  Never Never Land

12  Llanber'

13. Red and Yellow and Pink and Green...

14. The Rainbow of Recalcitrance

15  The Quarrymen

16  The Take Over by Department C

17  Hogiau Pen Garret

18. Avalanche

19  Moving Being

20  The Very Big and the Very Small

21  Dawes of Perception

22  The Quarryman

23  Supermassive Black Hole

24  Mister Blister

25  Time Bandit

26  The End

27  Staying and Leaving

28  Tambourine Man

29  The Meltdown

30  Instructor Job

31  Between the Here and Now

32  Le Grandpere

33  Y Rhaffwr

34  Slippery People

35  Endnotes

36  Climbing Terms

37  Biography & Further Reading

38  Quarry Names

39. Index