http://www.calmandfearless.com Calm and Fearless - Reviews by Ed Douglas en-gb Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:14:00 +0000 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:14:00 +0000 http://www.calmandfearless.com/assets/rssLogo.gif Calm and Fearless - Reviews by Ed Douglas http://www.calmandfearless.com 88 31 simon@v-graphics.co.uk jon@v-graphics.co.uk http://www.calmandfearless.com/blog/2012-01-02_____wilson-rides-again Years ago, handwritten letters from publishers pushing their latest offering were a common occurence for me, and presumably lots of other reviewers. The doyen of this highly personal approach was Tony Colwell, Joe Simpson's editor at Jonathan Cape, who began his career in marketing and understood intimately how to cut through the avalanche of promotional material with a direct and ... Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:14:00 +0000 blog_kTH82Mnc4Z http://www.calmandfearless.com/blog/2011-12-12_____cold-wars I spent some of this year editing Andy Kirkpatrick's new book Cold Wars, published by those nice people at Vertebrate Publishing who help me out with this site, and so have that interesting dual perspective of working with someone and then seeing their public performances. Andy has a very successful schtick which goes down very well on the road and at festivals of the madcap, zany adventurer, so ... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:12:00 +0000 blog_GtPnQTwhVS http://www.calmandfearless.com/blog/2011-12-07_____bonington-revisits-the-eiger Last week I saw Chris Bonington lecture twice, first at the Alpine Club's China Symposium at Shap, where he talked about Kongur. As Lindsay Griffin pointed out in his review of the day for the British Mountaineering Council, the first ascent of Kongur was arguably the highest done in pure alpine style. Bonington, with Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman and Al Rouse were forced to spend four days in tiny ... Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:16:00 +0000 blog_jcdkBhnyj2 http://www.calmandfearless.com/blog/2011-12-06_____clarkson-on-mountain-rescue Several people wondered what Jeremy Clarkson had said about mountain rescue in his column after I tweeted about it. Because of Murdoch's paywall, I couldn't post a link, so I'll quote a relevant excerpt. I should say most of the column was about how Prince Harry is cooler than Prince William because he's training to be an Apache pilot and poor Wills has to drive a knackered old Sea King and live ... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:56:00 +0000 blog_KBMtBFscG