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Statement: The Ben Moon Story

`Ever since I first set foot on rock at the tender age of seven years, climbing has been the most important thing in my life. In fact I would go so far as to say it is my reason for living and as long as I am able to climb I hope I will. It is from climbing I draw my inspiration for life.` On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing history with the first ascent of Hubble, now widely recognised as the world`s first F9a. Born in the suburbs of London in 1966, Moon started rock climbing on the sandstone outcrops of Kent and Sussex. A
pioneer in the sport-climbing revolution of the 1980s and a bouldering legend in the 1990s, he is one of the most iconic rock climbers in the sport`s history, In Statement, Moon`s official biography, award-winning writer Ed Douglas paints a portrait of a climbing visionary and dispels the myth of Moon as an anti-traditional climbing renegade.Interviews with Moon are complemented with insights from family and friends and extracts from magazines and personal diaries and letters.

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` Ever since I first set foot on rock at the tender age of seven years, climbing has been the most important thing in my life. In fact I would go so far as to say it is my reason for living & as long as I am able to climb I hope I will. It is from climbing I draw my inspiration for life.` On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers & pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing history with the first ascent of Hubble, now widely recognised as the world`s first F9a. Born in the suburbs of London in 1966, Moon started rock climbing on the sandstone outcrops of Kent & Sussex. A pioneer in the sport-climbing revolution of the 1980s & a bouldering legend in the 1990s, he is one of the most iconic rock climbers in the sport`s history, In Statement, Moon`s official biography, award-winning writer Ed Douglas paints a portrait of a climbing visionary & dispels the myth of Moon as an anti-traditional climbing renegade. Interviews with Moon are complemented with insights from family & friends & extracts from magazines & personal diaries & letters.

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