ADVANCED PUBLICATION NOTICE
“Climbing with Angels and Ghosts”
By J. G. Franks
‘The Unexplained Occurrences and multiple NDE’s of an Adventurous Nobody above and below ground covering five decades of Adventure here in the Mountains of the U.K. Alps and Himalaya’
ISBN 978-0-9556989-4-1
This autobiography concerns itself with the author’s life of adventure from the early age of three back in 1947 and follows his adventurous life through troubled adolescent years into adulthood. The chapters are stories in their own right and includes tales such as: playing with unexploded bombs, early gang warfare; sea cliff climbing in Malta in the late 1950’s; experiences on a Dartmoor expedition as an R.A.F. Boy Entrant; introduction to the bullying, abuse and intimidation tactics employed by the armed forces in their approach to teaching abseiling and rock climbing in the early 1960 ’s; early RAF mountain rescue experiences, and, his unusualapproach to solo climbing.
It looks at a period of depression when a suicide attempt was prevented by a paranormal experience; climbing and caving accidents that contained many different yet similar paranormal experiences that defy explanation and logic; feelings of loss and sadness with the deaths of many close climbing friends and in particular on the Eiger; feelings of loneliness among the crowds and finding salvation and answers in a plethora of adventurous activities which involved a willingness to invite death to call by testingit and teasing it through unconventional approaches to climbing and caving.
It is in essence, one man’s lonely yet adventurous journey to self-discovery through a wide variety of adventure activities, looking at the highs, the lows, the serious and the funny aside to adventures all tainted with unexplained events whilst ‘living on the edge’, sometimes just goingover it!
20% Discount for advance orders – p & p free.
Anticipated Publication Date – March 2008
£12.99
Details: CherryTree Publications Ltd, Sebergham Castle House, Welton, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7HG; E-mail fjg236@aol.com