1970s Ireland has a message for Clare Sheridan: 'Girls don't climb.' But in an era when there was no shotage of voices telling woman how they should bhave, Clare wasn't listening. Fresh out of convent boarding school, she was determined to venture onto steep rock and see the world from a different perspective.
Climbing quickly became her passion, and Clare's thirst for adventure was matched only by her courage. She was soon recognised as a pioneering leader by the top climbers of the day, not least Belfast mountaineer Calvin Torrans, the love of her life, who she met on her fist trip to the Alps. They have been climbing together ever since, tackling difficult routes on high mountains all over the world and achieving a phenominal succession of first ascents on Irish Cliffs, even as they raised a family of three.
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