Sweet Peril: Climbing, Family and Other Dangerous Pursuits

By Andy Kirkpatrick

Two-time Boardman Tasker Prize winner Andy Kirkpatrick spent decades chasing danger: solo on El Capitan, frozen on the north faces of the Alps, always one bad decision from the end. Then life threw him a curveball. In his fifties, he found himself a father again, living on the rain-soaked west coast of Ireland, a lawn to mow and bins to put out. Sweet Peril collects the best of his writing from those years, a time of looking back and learning, slowly, how to live. There are big walls and winter epics, but also grief and fatherhood, fame and failure, friends lost to the mountains, midnight crossings of Lough Corrib, and the time an immigration officer mistook him for Simon Pegg. Funny, raw and unflinchingly honest, these stories are about climbing, but more than that, they are about risk: the kind we choose, the kind that finds us anyway, and why the sweetest things in life are so often the most dangerous. For climbers, adventurers, parents, and anyone who has ever wondered what's left when you stop doing the thing that made you who you are.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1066686297
• ISBN13: 9781066686292
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Andrew Kirkpatrick Limited
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.8" x 5.7"