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This Game of Ghosts,

von: Joe Simpson

This Game of Ghosts
Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 796
EAN: 9780099380115
Ausgabe: New Ed
ISBN: 0099380110
Label: Vintage
Hersteller: Vintage
Anzahl Seiten: 336
Erscheinungsdatum: August 25, 1994
Herausgeber: Vintage
Studio: Vintage

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Produktbeschreibung:

Amazon.com:
In his second memoir, climber Joe Simpson reveals a lifetime of flirtation with danger, from risky childhood stunts to an astonishing number of near-death climbing accidents. Simpson revisits his many brushes with death while climbing: a 2,000-foot fall in the Courtes, the collapse of a bivy ledge on the Dru, a 150-foot fall on Nepal's Pachermo, and his nearly fatal climb in the Andes, covered in his Boardman Tasker Award-winner, Touching the Void.

Simpson writes in an effort to understand his own reasons for taking such risks. He describes what it is like to face death, and works through the guilt of being spared so many times when other climbing friends and mentors were not. Simpson also copes with the frustration of having his climbing ambitions cut short by injury and the resultant feelings of uncertainty. Complete with photo documentation of key events in the author's life, This Game of Ghosts is a gripping account of honesty and fortitude that will keep both mountaineers and outdoor enthusiasts in suspense.




Bewertung: - Wahrheit der Seele eines Bergsteigers
Als Ketterer kann ich mich selbst in fast jedem Satz dieses Buches finden. Wahrscheinlich hat jeder Bergsteiger mittlerwiele die Erfahrung gemacht, dass Freunde an einem ganz normalen Tag auf Tour gingen und einfach nicht mehr zurückkamen. Die Grenze in den Tod ist am Berg so unglaublich schmal und es brucht fast nichts sodass sie überschritten ist.

Ich war gerade dabei das Buch "Spiel der Geister" zu lesen als ich wieder einmal daran erinnert wurde. Leider musste dafür wieder ein Freund am Berg sterben.

Es wirkt vielleicht anmaßend, doch für mich als einfachen Buchkonsumenten ist dieses Buch das Beste, welches ich jemals gelesen habe. Es ist nicht glorifizierend und doch fällt es nicht in eine einfache Dokumentation um.

Eigentlich müsste man Joe Simpson dafür danken, dieses Buch geschrieben zu haben, denn er bringt darin soviel zum Ausdruck, wessen man sich als Bergsteiger garnicht bewusst ist.

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Bewertung: - Good reading
This is a delightful book. Not that the writer's more well-known TOUCHING THE VOID is badly written; it isn't, and it remians on my short list of the best mountaineering/adventure books I've read. But in THIS GAME OF GHOSTS Simpson stretches out more fully, more autobiographically (is that a wrod?) in an attempt to explain (to himself, to the reader) what it is about climbing that is so attractive, so essential to his existence. While he is honest almost to a fault, Simpson is smart enough to not fall (no pun intended) into the cliches and pseudo-mystical parrot talk that waters down an awful lot of mountaineering lit. For Simpson, there is no short, definitive answer as to why he is drawn to steep, icy mountain walls. On the other hand, the whole book is an answer to this question, which he poses, dismisses, returns to, and obliquely answers over and over.

This is not just a good mountaineering book; it is a bood book, period. At first I thought Simpson was being ... weiter

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Bewertung: - This Game of Ghosts
As the follow-up book to 'Touching the Voids' Simpson details his life with the emotion and detail you would expect from a truely remarkable individual. From his early childhood to his most advanced expeditions this book takes you on a journey through the highest and lowest points of Simpsons life. Truely blessed with the ability to write with a fine balance of humour and compassion 'This game of ghosts' captured me with three basic emotions; extreme happiness, sadness and a great deal of despondency to finish the book, Perfect!

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Bewertung: - This Game of Ghosts
As the follow-up book to 'Touching the Voids' Simpson details his life with the emotion and detail you would expect from a truely remarkable individual. From his early childhood to his most advanced expeditions this book takes you on a journey through the highest and lowest points of Simpsons life. Truely blessed with the ability to write with a fine balance of humour and compassion 'This game of ghosts' captured me with three basic emotions; extreme happiness, sadness and a great deal of dispondoncy to finish the book, Perfect!

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Bewertung: - Confusion
The honesty of the author in "This Game of Ghosts" is startling, and refreshing. Joe looks at the experiences that have shaped his life, both before and after the accident, and is not afraid to criticise. Throughout the book, he comments on the loss of climbing friends, and the confusion this causes. The brutal honesty coupled with the questions raised by the deaths to which there are no easy answers make this a stunning book.

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