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Voices from the Hills

Pioneering Women Fell and Mountain Runners

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Voices From the Hills is a history of female participation in mountain running, a development that was fiercely resisted in its early years. Steve Chilton has researched his subject deeply, interviewing many female athletes whom he rightly describes as pioneers. Thanks to them, female participation has become accepted and followed avidly in all its aspects including the long distance, high ascent runs over ranges such as the Mamores and recognized challenges such as the Bob Graham Round. The many voices who speak directly from the book represent many different personalities that are united in a powerful determination to realize their various potentials and to prepare the way for the athletes who would follow in ever greater numbers.

©2023 Steve Chilton (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd Running & Jogging Sports Women
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Steve is immersed in trail running. This is so well researched and a fulfilling and educational listen. Some inspiring women and all too predictable attitudes and obstacles in their way in the past. I'd like to think we've moved on a lot.

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Trail runners and Fell runners interested in the evolution of the sport should definitely read this. superbly researched, scholarly to a degree, and fantastically laid out with each significant female runner being meticulously profiled, most times in their own words. I think this is an important and overdue work, recognising the often unsung contributions and sacrifices of women runners in the early patriarchal days of the sport.
very well narrated with a gentle Scottish lilt, I will go back to this for reference as a big fan of the scene. Just brilliant.

fantastically researched work

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