Gwen Moffat
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1924-06-03
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
mountaineer
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The wife of the warden of the Plas Mawr Adventure Centre is missing, and then found dead. There is also the problem of the stolen gelignite from the nearby mines. Miss Pink spend a her time asking questions.
Didn't really find the story that interesting.
Didn't really find the story that interesting.
I was excited to read this book after hearing Ms. Moffat speak on a documentary. However, I found the book a bit dull. She undoubtedly has led an interesting life, but the book has no peaks and valleys (ironic for a book on a mountain climber.) There also isn't any poetry in her telling of her life or her adventures. It reads like just a perfunctory account of events. Not bad but not all that engaging.
Part mystery; part detective story. Slow, very drawn out. Good bones but didn't quite get it right.
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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- 45
- Ook door
- 3
- Leden
- 264
- Populariteit
- #87,286
- Waardering
- 3.3
- Besprekingen
- 6
- ISBNs
- 164
It is a very different world!
On the mountaineering side, the things they do with what feels like basically no protection to modern climbers (climbing in bare feet! Absailing just off the rope! No harnesses!) are terrifying
On the sociological side, it is a very different world! Hitch-hiking and renting cottages in a very ad hoc way. Picking up jobs casually. And all the casual gender stuff. The bit where her landlord doubles her rent because she has 'too many men over' is horrific, as is the bit where she gets sexually assaulted when hitch hiking (not just the assault, but the complete lack of support when she tells her friend what has happened.)
Gwen Moffet is so very very clearly in love with climbing and the hills, and is ready to trample all over anything else that gets in the way of this love - whether that's ignoring conventional gender roles, having a baby on a boat, living completely off grid in a shack...
Her writing about climbing and the mountains is superb, and so multi facetted, the joys of successful hard climbs, the fear when things are going wrong, the exhaustion and tension between climbing partners, all scattered with a sobering list of people she knows dying in the background. An extraordinary book about an extraordinary woman.… (meer)