” As I sat cradling the man`s head, with his blood & brains sticking to my hands, I heard a voice
- my own voice. It was asking me something. Asking how I had ended up like this, desperate & lost among people who thought nothing of caving in a man`s head & then standing back to watch him die.” Nick Bullock was a prison officer working in a maximum-security jail with some of Britain`s most notorious criminals. Trapped in a world of aggression & fear, he felt frustrated & alone. Then he discovered the mountains. Making up for lost time, Bullock soon became one of Britain`s best climbers, learning his trade in the mountains of Scotland & Wales, & travelling from Pakistan to Peru in his search for new routes & a new way of seeing the world
- & ultimately an escape route from his life inside. Told that no one ever leaves the service
- the security, the stability, the `job for life`
- Bullock focused his existence on a single goal: to walk free, with no shackles, into a mountain life. ” Echoes” is a powerful & compelling exploration of freedom
- & what it means to live life on your own terms.