An inspiring moving and unblinking view of a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains.Born in Bolton England Paul Pritchard started climbing when he was 16 years old. In time he became one of the foremost British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s climbing difficult routes across the United Kingdom and around the world including the East Face of Central Tower in Torres del Paine Patagonia the first ascent of the West Face of Mount Asgard on Baffin Island Trango Tower in northern Pakistan and multiple attempts on the thenunclimbed Sharks Fin on Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayan region. On Friday February 13 1998 Pauls life was dramatically altered when he was struck in the head by a falling boulder while climbing the Totem Pole a slender sea stack off the coast of Tasmania.