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Phil Gribbon’s decades of mountain exploration include over 100 first ascents in the Arctic. Filled with humour, honesty and captivating descriptions of his journeys, this book is the amazing untold story of one of the world’s greatest mountaineers. Wild Wanderings: A Life Amongst Mountains is by turns thrilling and fascinating, surprising and entertaining. Follow Phil through the ups and downs of a life spent in pursuit of the wilderness.
Phil Gribbon’s decades of mountain exploration include over 100 first ascents in the Arctic. Filled with humour, honesty and captivating descriptions of his journeys, this book is the amazing untold story of one of the world’s greatest mountaineers.
Wild Wanderings: A Life Amongst Mountains is by turns thrilling and fascinating, surprising and entertaining. Follow Phil through the ups and downs of a life spent in pursuit of the wilderness.
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phil gribbon is a mountaineer, writer and retired physics professor. He has<br />
written for the Polar Record, the Canadian Geographical Journal, the Alpine<br />
Journal and the American Alpine Journal, as well as the Scottish Mountaineering<br />
Club and Irish Mountaineering Club journals. A key figure in Arctic<br />
mountaineering and exploration in the ‘60s and ‘70s, <strong>Phil</strong> has made over<br />
100 Arctic alpine first ascents and has led expeditions in Greenland, the usa<br />
and Canada. Born in Cannes in 1929 and raised in Northern Ireland, he<br />
moved to St Andrews in Scotland in 1961 and has lived there ever since. <strong>Phil</strong><br />
was awarded the Polar Medal <strong>by</strong> HM Queen Elizabeth in 2014.
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