Crazy Sorrow is a biography of the UK’s top winter climber of the turn of the 21st century. Surviving an abusive childhood, he served in the British army for eight years before being invalided out. Having been introduced to ice climbing during his military service, only four years later he was making first ascents of the hardest routes in the harsh discipline of Scottish winter climbing. He then abruptly retired from climbing, and due to mental illness committed suicide at the age of 34.