num_pages: 296
description: David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when his high school vice-principal told him he was wasting his youth by climbing. Here he tells the story of how he and his brother Reg spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become in the words of renowned climbing historian Chic Scott one of the 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 clim ing told with compassion humour and insight.
language: English
title: A Youth Wasted Climbing
publisher: Rocky Mountain Books