The Stuff Of Nightmares
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The Stuff Of Nightmares

Is British trad an audacious game of risk or merely a fast track to a Darwin award? In 2000, while following in the footsteps of his heroes, a young James McHaffie booted up in front of the famed Masters Wall and launched upwards. What followed was a four hour fight for survival. Hazel Findlay supplies perspective on the strange craft of British trad.

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