Starlight and Storm

The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps

von Gaston Rebuffat

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the true perspective of living." --Sir John Hunt, author of The Conquest of Everest> With this elegant book, first published in 1954, Gaston Rébuffat transformed mountain writing. His insistence on seeing a climb as an act of harmonious communion with the mountain, not a battle waged against it, seemed radical at the time, though Rébuffat's aesthetic has since won the day. Through storms, avalanches, rock fall, unplanned bivouacs, and even the deaths of companions, we follow the Chamonix guide to the altar of his communion, on dark, icy walls that struck terror into the hearts of Europe's finest mountaineers. Nor are these deft narratives mere recitations of dangers faced and obstacles overcome, for Rébuffat pays as keen attention to the joys of comradeship won on these faces as he does to the climbs themselves. In our own day of corporate sponsorships, online expeditions, and eco-vacations, the purity of Rébuffat's vision of the Alps as (in the epithet of the title of another of his books) an "enchanted garden" shines forth in prose as fresh and stylish as any ever lavished on mountaineering.

• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geographie Physische Geographie und Topographie Berge und Hochland
• ISBN: 9780375755064
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.1999
• Größe: 203 x 135 mm
• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Übersetzung: Wilfrid Noyce, John Hunt