Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains Conquered Cycling
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Award-winning cycling author's look at the men and psychology of the mountain climber
When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "Pirate" nickname, replied: "To shorten my agony."
Drawing on the fervor for these men of the mountains, Climbers looks at what sets these athletes apart within the world of bike racing, ...
When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "Pirate" nickname, replied: "To shorten my agony."
Drawing on the fervor for these men of the mountains, Climbers looks at what sets these athletes apart within the world of bike racing, ...






















