Simon Yates author of Against the Wall takes us back to his early years as a climber
- the escapades & excitement of a young life lived on the edge & for the moment when experience was all-important & dramatic achievements & failures came as naturally as the hair-raising risks themselves. A mountaineering travelogue of dazzling variety The Flame of Adventure moves from the camaraderie of deprived Russian climbers in the little-known peaks in the Tien Shan to the awesome experience of the North Face of the Eiger from a rumbustious motorbike ride across Australia with a psychotic lorry driver. We meet a remarkable gallery of climbers from Doug Scott to Joe Simpson & when not exploring high mountains we enter the bizarre world of rope access workers: mavericks balancing high above building sites on the London skyline.