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Moving the Needle

How an Average Climber Can Do the Hardest Route in the World

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Moving the Needle

By: Dave MacLeod
Narrated by: Dave MacLeod
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How can an average climber do the hardest route in the world? Dave MacLeod wasn’t even the best among his fellow rock climbers in Glasgow, until a sequence of key decisions and influences catalysed his progression from an unremarkable intermediate to one of the best all-round climbers in the world. Dave shows that much of his advantage came from easily trainable skills or behavioural traits that could be replicated by any climber.

Moving the Needle is a story of the ups and downs of a struggle to answer a deep curiosity and its side effect of making the first ascent of Rhapsody at Dumbarton Rock, then the hardest trad climb in the world and the first to earn the grade of E11. Through an autobiographical exploration of his apprenticeship as a climber, the book is intended to function as a guide to transform your own climbing. Foreword by Dave Cuthbertson, and edited by Deziree Wilson.

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For anyone who wants to improve their climbing or tackle challenges in their life. This really helped motivate me to train and persist T my projects.

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Dave has a very real and down to earth personality, and continues to share amazing insights! I have most of his books and am following his YouTube channel religiously, so this book was an expectedly great experience. Highly recommended!

Fantastic book!

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Awesome and insightful story of the journey to cutting edge climbing from one of the greatest climbers of all time.

Utterly inspiring

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Enjoyed the narrative behind Dave and his growth in the climbing space.
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Great listen with some absolute gems from Dave. It was motivating and I took a lot away from the book to apply to my own approach to climbing.

Awesome listen, great insights

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