The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans

The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans

Perrin's biography of the most talented and self-destructive British climber of the twentieth century. Whillans was a genius on rock and a disaster everywhere else. Perrin writes about him with the same unflinching attention he brought to Menlove Edwards.
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Publisher Moutaineers Books
Published 2005
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