{"product_id":"feet-in-the-clouds-by-richard-askwith-9781781310564","title":"Feet in the Clouds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of Best New Writer - British Sports Publishing Awards. Winner of the Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition - Lakeland Book Awards. Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and for the Boardman-Tasker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn inspiring insight into one of the oldest extreme sports, and a lyrical tribute to Britain's mountains and the men and women who live among them, this is the definitive story of fell-running. With an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots - in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one's own valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeet in the Clouds\u003c\/em\u003e by Richard Askwith takes readers into a world of forbidding rockscapes, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion, and stunning natural beauty, alongside his own attempt at one of the purest and toughest challenges imaginable: the Bob Graham Round, the sport's traditional test of 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Askwith encounters some of the most prodigious - and unsung - athletes Britain has produced, such as Joss Naylor, who covered the equivalent of four Everests in a single run. Gripping, funny and moving, this is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will well understand: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486064099564,"sku":"9781781310564","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/754e9452eda0503c44c72594356490ff.jpg?v=1775788921","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/feet-in-the-clouds-by-richard-askwith-9781781310564","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}