Ed Douglas On Whillans In Observer Sports Monthly
Just in case you missed it, an interesting article on Whillans and Jim Perrin's biography of the legendary Mancunian climber by climbing journalist Ed Douglas.
Posted: 8 March 2005
by Jon
 Just
a quick head's up to an interesting Ed Douglas article in this
weekend's excellent Observer Sports Monthly supplement.
Titled 'The Vertical Beatnik', it uses the publication of Jim
Perrin's biography of the legendary Don Whillans to look both at
Whillans himelf and, as an aside, Perrin himself and the way his own
life interlocked with the likes of Whillans and Brown in
Manchester.
It's an interesting piece and touches on stuff like the
relationships between Whillans and his climbing partners Joe Brown
and Chris Bonington. Well worth a
read.
'The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans' is published by
Hutchinson. Reviewed
in the Observer by Peter Beaumont.
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