Mike Leaver, 69, lives in a converted, static truck on a small-town business park in Snowdonia. As well as writing his first three modern-fiction novels - largely on a laptop by candlelight in his lorry - he has almost finished penning the second part of his life-memoir specifically about mountaineering and outdoor adventure. Like Alan Bennett''s London eccentric The Lady in The Van, Mike has become a well-known character around his adopted home of Porthmadog.