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To Be a Warrior : The Adventurous Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson - Brandon Pullan

To Be a Warrior

The Adventurous Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson

By: Brandon Pullan

Paperback | 2 September 2021

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Billy Davidson astounded the climbing community in the Yosemite Valley by making an early ascent of North America Wall on El Capitan in 1970, along with numerous first ascents back in Alberta: CMC Wall (1972), Yellow Edge (1974) on Yamnuska, Iron Suspender on Wakonda Buttress (1971), and the north face of Gibraltar Mountain (1971).

The story of Billy "Kayak Bill" Davidson spans two western Canadian provinces (AB and BC) and two extreme outdoor lifestyles (mountaineering and solo sea kayaking).

For the past 15 years, Brandon has been working on the "Billy Book", garnering a great deal of online interest and anticipation within the mountaineering and sea kayaking communities.

He was a living legend to many in the climbing world before he walked away from his mountaineering life in Calgary and headed to British Columbia to live a hermetic life along the central coast (Bella Bella).

Billy spent 30 years as a hermit on the west coast, where he became a much-loved painter and a legendary paddler, whose routes and camps are still used and visited by adventuring kayakers to this day.

Based on hundreds of personal journal entries from when Billy was in high school to his final days, the book will be an insight into one of the most interesting outdoor figures in western Canada over the past 50 years.

Brandon Pullan is the Editor of Gripped - Canada's Climbing Magazine and a well-known outdoor journalist.

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