A Line Above the Sky av Helen Mort

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<p><b>Guardian Books to Watch 2022<br>Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022<br>Bookseller Editor''s Choice<br><i>Winner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature</i></b><br><br><b>''A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer'' Jon McGregor<br><br>''This book is beautiful'' Emma Jane Unsworth</b><br><br><i>''Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death''</i><br><br>As a child, Helen Mort was drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing, the tension between human and rockface, and the climber''s need to be hyperaware of the sensory world - to feel the texture of rock under their fingers, how their crampons bite into the ice, the subtle shifts in weather. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining this most elemental of disciplines, and the way that w