Title: Give Me Shelter
Author: Ian McKeever
Publisher: Folens Publishers
Publication Date: 2007-12-13
ISBN: 1847411886
Type: Paperback
Condition: Very Good -
Jacket condition: None as issued
Notes: Clean, solid copy with no writing, highlighting, or marks. One creased page corner. Bump to fore edge of book has left a bend mark to cover and faint bend marks in margins of subsequent pages. Otherwise cover is glossy and looks quite good. Binding is tight and square; no spine crease.
About the Book
An Irishman's Struggle to Become the Seven Summits World Record Holder
In the late 1990s, Ian McKeever was best known for his off-the-cuff AA Roadwatch traffic reports on Today FM and for cycling every Christmas for an entire decade dressed as Santa Claus in support of good causes. Few could have predicated what might follow, least of all Ian himself...
On 30 June 2007, Ian - who had never previously stepped on ice, rock climbed or been to altitude - turned the world of mountaineering on its head when he smashed the world record for the physically and mentally draining Seven Summits Challenge, achieving an incredible completion time of 155 days. It signified one of the great sporting achievements by any Irish person on the world stage.
Give Me Shelter is the story of his roller-coaster journey, from the literal bottom of the world to the very top of Everest. It is the story of one ordinary Irishman who never quit and who stopped at nothing to realize his true potential in life... and how, in the process, he learned to overcome the demons in his head, which had haunted him from childhood.
