num_pages: 389
description: Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van flitting between Llanberis Wales and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides Nicks second book is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes.Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer Nick is free to climb. A lot. Tides is a treasury of his antics and adventures with some of the worlds leading climbers including Steve House Kenton Cool Nico Favresse Andy Houseman and James McHaffie. Follow Nick and his partners as they push the limits on some of the worlds most serious routes: The Bells! The Bells! and The Hollow Man on Gogarths North Stack Wall; the Slovak Direct on Denali; Guerdon Grooves on Buachaille Etive Mor; and the north faces of Chang Himal and Mount Alberta among countless others.Nicks life can be equated to the rhythm of the sea. At high tide he climbs he loves it he is good at it; he laughs and jokes scares himself falls gets back up and climbs some more. Then the tide goes out and he finds himself alone exposed all questions and no answers. Self-doubt grieving for friends or family fearful sometimes opinionated occasionally angry  his writing more honest and exposed than in any account of a climb. Only when the tide turns is he able to forget once more.Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate ones life to climbing.
language: English
title: Tides: A Climber's Voyage
publisher: Vertebrate Digital