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Zusatztext Amazon.co.uk In The Beckoning Silence! climber Joe Simpson! author of the bestselling Touching the Void! recounts how his mountain dreams became shadowed by the deaths of friends and heroes! and hampered by the weight of probability that his own life would end in the same way. The result is a valedictory attempt on the North Face of the Eiger! a summation of his lifelong enchantment with climbing! and the parlaying of rock-solid risk with intangible rewards. It was a final adventure that would itself be touched by tragedy. Simpson has established himself as the leading mountaineering writer of his time! and The Beckoning Silence is a bold reassertion of that status. Always strong on the personal meaning of the challenge! here he is superb on the bubbling fear that forms such a critical element of the climber's kit; the minutiae of circumstance that seemingly separate the survivors and the dead; and the crisis that envelopes a climbing partnership on the mountainside! at the instant extreme pressure disturbs the balance of shared ambition and ability. Tat turned and looked speculatively up the corner and I felt even angrier that he might still be risking my life. What can you do if he insists? I mean! you can't pull him off. That would kill us. If he insists! then you'll have to un-rope. Jesus! Tell him that. "Tat?" I said quietly! hearing the fear in my voice. The narrative takes Simpson to Bolivia! the Alps! Colorado and to the foot of the Eiger! where he receives a uniquely rich and moving tutorial on the history of the challenge that lies ahead. Simpson fans need know no more than that this may be his finest effort to date. For the uninitiated! there is simply no more evocative! emotionally literate author writing on this subject today.--Alex Hankin Informationen zum Autor Joe Simpson Klappentext Joe Simpson is the author of several bestselling books, of which the first, Touching the Void , won both the NCR award and the Boardman Tasker Award. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching the Void - Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and one previous novel, The Water People . Zusammenfassung Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friend forces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on the mountains that he has loved. Never more alive than when most at risk, he has come to see a last climb on the hooded, mile-high North Face of the Eiger as the cathartic finale. In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences, from an avalanche in Bolivia, ice-climbing in the Alps and Colorado and paragliding in Spain - before his final confrontation with the Eiger - Simpson reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring both the power of the mind and the frailties of the body. The subject of his new book is the siren song of fear and his struggle to come to terms with it. ...
