{"product_id":"statement-ben-moon","title":"Statement: The Ben Moon Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Ever since I first set foot on rock at the tender age of seven years, climbing has been the most important thing in my life. In fact I would go so far as to say it is my reason for living and as long as I am able to climb I hope I will. It is from climbing I draw my inspiration for life.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing history with the first ascent of Hubble, now widely recognised as the world's first F9a.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in the suburbs of London in 1966, Moon started rock climbing on the sandstone outcrops of Kent and Sussex. A pioneer in the sport-climbing revolution of the 1980s and a bouldering legend in the 1990s, he is one of the most iconic rock climbers in the sport's history,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Statement, Moon's official biography, award-winning writer Ed Douglas paints a portrait of a climbing visionary and dispels the myth of Moon as an anti-traditional climbing renegade. Interviews with Moon are complemented with insights from family and friends and extracts from magazines and personal diaries and letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEd Douglas is an award-winning author of eight books about mountains and their people, and a journalist whose work most often appears in The Observer and The Guardian, where he contributes to the Country Diary. Previous books include the first full-length biography of Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, and Ron Fawcett's Rock Athlete, winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cordee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42216054259847,"sku":"1050882","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/5629\/0898\/files\/statement-9781906148980.jpg?v=1778690026","url":"https:\/\/www.neptunemountaineering.com\/products\/statement-ben-moon","provider":"Neptune Mountaineering","version":"1.0","type":"link"}