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Exclusive book extract on UKClimbing.com

Alex Roddie
Alex Roddie

Over the years I have published a number of articles on the popular UKClimbing.com website. My latest, simply entitled “The Only Genuine Jones”, is an exclusive extract from my book (a scene from Chapter 6, to be precise). In the extract we see how Jones and Elspeth attempt a difficult new route on Ben Nevis sixty years before its true first ascent.

You can read my extract here: http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=5331

Contribute to the discussion thread here: http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=543050

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Alex Roddie

Alex Roddie

Happiest on a mountain. Writer, story-wrangler, digital and film photographer. Editor of Sidetracked magazine (I make the words come out good).

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