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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
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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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Captivating Storytelling • Inspiring Journey • Valuable Insights • Practical Advice • Personal Reflections
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Dave touches on so many different subjects in his latest book. I can relate to many of his struggles, and I’m able to go on his journey so easily with the way he presents his story. I found this book to be a practical approach to apply my own journey with climbing. I loved every chapter! Dave is a down-to-earth legend!

Articulation and relatability

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Fantastic story telling and insight how a few important decisions made the leap from good to great

Excellent detail of the world’s first E11

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true masterpiece as all his other books, content, ascents, research, and life as a whole

amazing as everything else from Dave

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Great insight into an inspirational life in climbing! Love to hear Dave in his own words telling a story that reflects on and teaches things every athlete can learn from. Here's to hoping for audio versions of his other books!

Excellent!

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I really enjoyed this more autobiographical book by Dave. He has so much knowledge about climbing through decades of performing at an extremely high level and it was great to hear context behind a lot of the decisions he's mentioned on his YouTube channel as well as some new tips and really well told adventures.

Really inspiring!

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I’m almost 30, started my real and serious trainning for climbing less than 5 year ago, climbing and trainning became my life and I have to balance it with work and life, and regardless of this, I could feel the stories and relate to them within my own climbing history… big fan of Dave and now more than before, he’s just as human as me… thanks for the inspiration.

Relatable

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Really good insight into what somebody needs to achieve such unbelievably high standards. Even for those whose ambitions are very much lower the mindset comes across so well. The issues that fight against these achievements including the need to earn and the mental issues are well articulated

Awesome!!

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Always been impressed by Dave’s climbing and perspective and this was a great in depth dive into how he got where he is.

Inspiring account of a world class climbers story

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The author brings great insights and perspectives not only into ones relationship with climbing, but also with one’s self, and the world around us. He also is a great narrator. I would love to hear more of Dave’s books on Audible.

Insightful reading

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Curiosity, fear, motivation, struggle, determination, passion, love, depression, and obsession. All of these words describe the pain Dave lays out in his book.

Inspirational Read

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