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DALL'AUTORE DI «LA MORTE SOSPESA», UN LIBRO SULLA MONTAGNA SIMBOLO DEL RISCHIO ESTREMO: L'EIGER. Joe Simpson ha vissuto una vita all’insegna dell’avventura e caratterizzata dalla presenza incombente della morte. Ha sofferto la perdita di compagni di cordata, è stato lui stesso vittima di un gravissimo incidente nelle Ande peruviane, e ha continuato a riflettere sulla natura di questa passione divorante ma fatale alla quale ha dato tutto se stesso. E che potrebbe uccidere anche lui... La morte di un carissimo amico lo spinge a prendere una decisione: è tempo ormai di allontanarsi dalle montagne di una vita. Non prima, però, di compiere un’ultima impresa: la Nord dell’Eiger, la parete Nord per eccellenza, che Simpson vuole salire come suo personale canto del cigno... In una racconto dal ritmo serrato che conduce il lettore attraverso esperienze estreme, da una slavina in Bolivia, all’arrampicata su ghiaccio nelle Alpi e in Colorado, al parapendio in Spagna, fino al confronto finale con la Nord dell’Eiger, Simpson svela l’intima verità dell’arrampicare che risiede in quel delicatissimo equilibrio fra il potere della mente e le fragilità del corpo.
- ISBN: 8863807957
- Casa Editrice: Corbaccio
- Pagine: 320
- Data di uscita: 13-03-2014
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I’m constantly (and morbidly) fascinated with stories of the amazing triumphs and horrific despair of mountaineering. Death comes so readily it seems, but the love of the mountains, the rush of adrenaline, and the battle itself bring these cliff-hangers and ice-climbers back time and again. It seems Leggi tutto
Sentí un escalofrío cuando el pie derecho me patinó al separarse el hielo de la roca, pero por suerte se detuvo. Respiré hondo y volví a subir el pie, metiendo la punta de mi crampón en una grietecilla de la roca. Luego, haciendo equilibrios sobre ella, me estiré para clavar el piolet un poquito más Leggi tutto
This is the story of Joe Simpson creeping doubts about the wisdom of keeping on climbing - too many funerals of friends lost in accidents begin to take their toll on his confidence and love of climbing. He examines these feelings and explores the reasons behind his own and others love of the sport.
This is not a gripping survival tale like Touching the Void . Rather it is a somewhat loosely structured autobiography on Joe Simpson's mountaineering life, centered around the period when he is about to "give up" climbing altogether. There are brilliant passages. The few pages on the sublime perfecti Leggi tutto
Since watching films such as Touching the Void and Free Solo last year, I've become kindaaa hyper fixated on watching anything to do with climbing and mountaineering, so I thought, why don't I give reading about it a shot? Without the visual references, a very different experience. As a non-climber, Leggi tutto
A great book for climbers, many of the thoughts and ideas that Joe Simpson shares are mirroring my own convictions about fear, death, dreams and life in general. He just found the words to describe those things in a clear and distinctive way. I'm recommending this book to everyone who wants to under Leggi tutto
I read this after reading Touching the Void earlier this year and being completely blown away by it, and decided to read more books about climbing because something about it seems to resonate with me even though I'm not a climber myself and I don't even know anybody who is! This book was an interesti Leggi tutto
I am a fan of Simpson's writing and very much enjoyed "Touching the Void" for both it's writing and the story itself and this has obviously given him some notoriety and admiration in the mountaineering community, and deservedly so. This is a very good read too, although I did take a while to get into Leggi tutto
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