Feeding the Rat
by Al Alvarez
Buy on AmazonFeeding the Rat Is a book authored by Al Alvarez. The text explores a central theme of the psychological drive to climb mountains. In this book, Al Alvarez frequently relates the biographical stories and philosophy of his companion Mo Anthoine to convey the emotional range that can be experienced in a life of mountaineering. Mo was a passionate climber, and has been described as equal in skill to more famous mountaineers of the era such as Chris Bonington or Doug Scott.
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"This is where the title, ‘ Feeding the Rat ’, comes in. It speaks to that sense of absolute compulsion – there’s a rat gnawing away inside of you that you have to feed. I have a good friend, a proper climber, who just loves this book and has that tattoed on him: ‘feed the rat.’"
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