Climbers: Pain, Panache and Polka Dots in Cycling's Greatest Arenas

by Peter Cossins

Book Overview

Award-winning cycling author's look at the men and psychology of the mountain climber

When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "Pirate" nickname, replied: "To shorten my agony."

Drawing on the fervor for these men of the mountains, Climbers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788403134
• ISBN13: 9781788403139
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cassell
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.9" x 7.7"