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Moving the Needle

How an Average Climber Can Do the Hardest Route in the World

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Moving the Needle

Written by: Dave MacLeod
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How can an average climber do the hardest route in the world? Dave MacLeod wasn’t even the best among his fellow rock climbers in Glasgow, until a sequence of key decisions and influences catalysed his progression from an unremarkable intermediate to one of the best all-round climbers in the world. Dave shows that much of his advantage came from easily trainable skills or behavioural traits that could be replicated by any climber.

Moving the Needle is a story of the ups and downs of a struggle to answer a deep curiosity and its side effect of making the first ascent of Rhapsody at Dumbarton Rock, then the hardest trad climb in the world and the first to earn the grade of E11. Through an autobiographical exploration of his apprenticeship as a climber, the book is intended to function as a guide to transform your own climbing. Foreword by Dave Cuthbertson, and edited by Deziree Wilson.

©2024 Dave MacLeod (P)2024 Dave MacLeod Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Extreme Sports Outdoors & Nature

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surprisingly personal

I came into this book expecting more of a training and sport psychology approach, but I was (pleasantly) surprised at how personal and autobiographical it ended up being. I ended up with a good few things to think about in my own approach to climbing. great stuff!

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Great read

I think it’s very cool that Dave did the read aloud himself. It’s cool hearing him tell his story in detail. I enjoyed hearing his perspective on climbing and training and his reflections on his career as a climber on the cutting edge of the sport.

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