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Jerry Moffatt - Revelations

By: Jerry Moffatt
Narrated by: Stewart Crank
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When Jerry Moffatt burst onto the scene as a brash 17-year-old, rock climbing had never seen anyone like him before. Fiercely ambitious, even as a boy Moffatt was focused on one thing: being the best in the world. This is the story of his meteoric rise to stardom and how he overcame injury to stay at the top for over two decades.

Top sport climber, brilliant competitor, and a pioneer in the new game of bouldering, Moffatt's story is that of climbing itself in the last 30 years. Yet Jerry Moffatt is more than a dedicated athlete. Travelling the world to fulfill his dreams, his story is a compelling and often hilarious account of the climbing community with all its glories, dangers, and foibles as well as the story of a true sporting legend.

©2009 Jerry Moffatt and Niall Grimes (P)2019 Vertebrate Publishing Climbing & Mountaineering Outdoors & Nature Sports Outdoor Inspiring Witty Funny

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Fantastic story to listen to and I am even more motivated now to "train like a dog" as Jerry likes to put it! Valuable lessons learnt not just physically but mentally to which is too often the hardest part! Thanks for the great lessons, I'll be referring back to this for everything.

Great lessons learnt and inspired!

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Really fun story of one of the UK's best rock climbers. As a climber, and being familiar with a lot of the locations I really enjoyed it. Not sure how a non-climber would find it, due to lots of references to grades, etc. However it still gives great insight into someone with incredible dedication and tenacity to become the best in their field.
I thought the narrator did a great job. Just a shame there were several mispronunciations (e.g. arête).

The mindset of a great climber

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pleasure to listen to despite some butchered pronunciations of some key and quite simple phrases and words

great listen overall

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Being a dyslexic climber of similar age. Also familiar with some of the climbs and carecters in early years I connected with the story very well. But I wound recommend this as a motivational book for anyone wanting to do well at anything. Thank for sharing your story.

Inspiration

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Revelations, the autobiography of Jerry Moffatt is probably one of the most important climbing books of the modern era. Famously ghost written by Niall Grimes, who said of the project – Jerry’s stories only needed to be written down, rich with his storytelling and humour, the book is something very very special. Jerry Moffatt was for ten years arguably the best rock climber on the planet, throughout the 80s and early 90s he climbed the hardest routes in the best style around the world. His story is fascinating, one of talent, dedication, incredible focus, mishaps, adventures, ego and humility. Perhaps like no other sporting autobiography it really does go to the heart of what it means to be ‘the best’.
Sorry, but I can’t recommend this book enough.

In Jerry’s words after he gave up climbing.
‘When people ask me about getting back into it, I tried to explain what ‘it’ was to me. ‘It’ is working out on a campus board five days a week, twice a day, It’s doing weighted pull-ups, It’s starving myself seven days a week, watching everything I eat, and letting everything else take second place, It’s finding the hardest route in the world and going and doing it.’

Outstanding Climbing Sport Autobiography

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the narrator was great but kept mis pronouncing John Bchar's name sit was uper annoying

great story!

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Jerry has lived an amazing life. I enjoyed this book from 2 aspects:

listening to all Jerry’s amazing climbing stories, learning about how climbing as a whole developed from Jerry’s influence, getting hyped for my own training based on Jerry’s whole mentality about climbing (watch “The Real Thing”) and also listening about how Jerry has developed as a person, from a young kid dossing to becoming part of a family and providing for them.

The other aspect was Jerry’s mentality about comp climbing, and how he overcame those issues - very inspiring stuff.

Overall absolutely amazing, however I would have loved to hear Jerry narrate the book himself!

Amazing and Inspiring

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A must read for every climber. It's a compiled history of climbing. Excellenty read! Made our 9 hours car trip fly by while listening to the audiobook.

Amazing audiobook!

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excellent from start to finish.
much more down to earth and relatable than some of the other... characters... in climbing history.

and yet another person who has benefitted from Lanny Basham. Will have to get his book next!

inspiring

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Great explanations of the real parts of climbing that aren’t covered on Instagram. Well written and told!

Inspiring read from a clearly dedicated climber

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