A biography of Scottish climbing legend, W H Murray, will be launched at a special event in Glasgow's Argyle Street Waterstones on 22 August.
Robin Lloyd-Jones will be discussing his new book The Sunlit Summit, described by Robert Macfarlane in his foreward as a “subtle and wonderful biography – there need never be another account of Murray's life.”
William Hutchison Murray (1913 – 1996) was one of Scotland’s most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland, on rough toilet paper which was confiscated and destroyed by the Gestapo. The rewritten version was published in 1947 and followed by the, now, equally famous, Undiscovered Scotland. In 1951 he was depute leader to Eric Shipton on the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition. In later years he became a successful novelist and pioneer conservationist.
Robin Lloyd-Jones is a climber, teacher, and award winning author of novels, short fiction, radio drama and non-fiction. He is a former president of the Scottish Association of Writers and of Scottish PEN and has also been a tutor in creative writing at Glasgow University.
The book launch will be held on Thursday 22nd August at 7pm at Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8AH. It is Free to attend, and all are welcome. Buy the book online: The Sunlit Summit: The Life of W. H. Murray