

Dr Richard Manton is the Director of Sustainability at University of Galway, Ireland's leading university for sustainability and a National SDG Ambassador.

David has been climbing for nearly 20 years, focusing mostly on exploring and developing new bouldering problems and areas across Ireland and eventually started to gather this information on a website, theshortspan.com. In 2010 he was made redundant and decided that the time was right to publish a proper his first book, Bouldering in Ireland.