pennine lines is climbing inspiration from the North of England Featuring photographs - and the stories behind them - of the boulders, routes and people that make the scene unique, by photographer and author dave parry
“As climbers we get to experience some amazing places and a few incredible fleeting moments. Photography is really a sort of party trick of time, to be able to apparently freeze a moment in perpetuity.”
“Not all forms of art are capable of this – if you freeze sound in time it’s no longer music. But you can appear to freeze a moment in time in a photo and it still works, it still transports you to that place and time.”
Dave Parry is a Sheffield-based photographer and author. A climbing lifer since his teenage years, Dave has spent more than a quarter of a century exploring what the rock has to offer all over the UK and further afield, but it is from his passion for the climbing right here in the North of England that Pennine Lines is born.
Dave’s first book, Grit Blocs, was published in 2020 by Vertebrate Publishing.
Image © Sam Lawson