Climbing Days by Dan Richards – review

Dorothy Pilley’s memoirs set her great-great-nephew on a beguiling quest to follow in her footsteps – up a mountain

Quoting Dr Seuss, Dan Richards writes: “It is fun to have fun / But you have to know how”. Climbing Days is the most enormous fun.

Richards first came to my notice with Holloway, the bestseller that he co-wrote, indeed made, with the writer Robert Macfarlane and Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood (one early version of Holloway was a leather-bound, hand-printed, boxed and sealed edition of 13 books – one of which I am lucky enough to own, although I have never quite dared to break the red wax seal). Last year saw the publication of The Beechwood Airship Interviews, and now here is the beguiling Climbing Days.

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