Eiger Dreams. Ventures Among Men and Mountains
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 796.522
EAN: 9780385488181
Ausgabe: Reprint
ISBN: 0385488181
Label: Random House Inc.
Hersteller: Random House Inc.
Anzahl Seiten: 186
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997-06
Herausgeber: Random House Inc.
Studio: Random House Inc.
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Produktbeschreibung:Aus der Amazon.de-Redaktion: Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache. Egal wie die gegenwärtige Temperatur auch sein mag, nach einigen Seiten von
Auf den Gipfeln der Welt werden Sie zu frieren beginnen. Wenn Sie die Mitte des Buches erreicht haben, werden Sie ein völlig neues Verständnis für Ihre Finger, Ihre Zehen und die Tatsache bekommen haben, daß Sie noch eine Nase besitzen. Und am Ende dieser Sammlung werden Sie einigen häufig gebrauchten Redewendungen eine völlig neue Bedeutung beimessen. Das subtile "etwas frische Luft schnappen" oder das neckische "Flugstunden zurücklegen" sind Bergsteigereuphemismen für "Abstürzen", während "Krater" das Zurücklegen von Flugstunden bis zum Boden bezeichnet. "Summiting", die Bezeichnung für das Erreichen eines Gipfels, wirkt dagegen geradezu farblos. Die diversen Helden, Risikoeingehenden, Nichtskönner und Individualisten, die Krakauer beschreibt, sind allerdings schillernd, ob sie nun "summiten" oder nicht. Der Autor interessiert sich mehr für das Erforschen der Sucht nach Risiko -- der Intensität der Anstrengung -- als für reinen Triumph. Da gibt es zum Beispiel den mythischen Minimalisten John Gill, dessen Ruhm "ausschließlich auf Aufstiegen von unter zehn Metern beruht"; oder die Gebrüder Burgess, die ausgeflippten englischen Zwillinge, die stets dann die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen scheinen, wenn es darauf ankommt, und deshalb es fast nie schaffen, den Gipfel zu erreichen. Natürlich sind sie noch am Leben. Über diesen und anderen talentierten Kletterern schwebt eine bösartige, unendlich kreative Natur, deren Föhnwinde Leute zum Wahnsinn treibt, und deren Lawinen noch viel Schlimmeres anrichten.
Auf den Gipfeln der Welt ist ein Adrenalinfest für die Müden, eine längst überfällige Untersuchung einer stilvollen, mutigen Subkultur. Wie einer der von Krakauer beschriebenen Helden seine Beschäftigung umreißt: "Es ist ein bißchen wie Spaß haben, nur anders."
Amazon.com:No matter what the actual temperature may be, several pages into
Eiger Dreams you will begin to shiver. Halfway through you will acquire a new appreciation for your fingers, toes, and the fact that you still have a nose. And by the end of this collection, you'll define some commonly used phrases in an entirely different way. The understated "catch some air" and the whimsical "log some flight time" are climbers' euphemisms for falling, while "crater" refers to what happens when you log some flight time all the way to the ground. "Summiting," the term for reaching the top of a mountain, seems almost colorless in comparison. The various heroes, risk-takers, incompetents, and individualists Krakauer captures are more than colorful, whether they summit or not. The author is more interested in exploring the addiction of risk--the intensity of effort--than mere triumph. There's the mythical minimalist climber, John Gill, whose fame "rests entirely on assents less than thirty feet high," and the Burgess brothers--freewheeling, free-floating English twins who seem to make all the right decisions when it counts, and hence most often fail to reach the top. Of course, they are
alive. Over these and other talented climbers hangs a malignant, endlessly creative nature--its
foehn winds can make people crazy and its avalanches do far worse.
Eiger Dreams is an adrenaline fest for the weary, an overdue examination of a stylish, brave subculture. As one of the heroes Krakauer outlines says of his occupation, "It's sort of like having fun, only different."
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People have always pushed to accomplish more. When one of my best friends took up mountain climbing well into his fifties after he back wasn't up to golf any more, I began to wonder what the sport was all about. Having remembered that Jon Krakauer is both a wonderful writer and an adventuresome climber, it seemed like I might learn the answers by reading this book. I was more than amply rewarded for my curiosity.
Knowing that adventures are better heard as a story rather than read, I also opted for Philip Franklin's reading for Books on Tape. This was a stunningly good choice. Mr. Franklin makes you feel like you are right there as you look down from dizzying heights of thousands of feet while being held up by a small patch of crumbling ice.
The diversity of the stories is remarkable, from those who want to set records for getting up dangerous new routes to those who want to set records for speed in sport climbing (lots of strength and technique but not much risk). ...
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How to do justice to a writer like Krakauer....well, he's such a good writer that I feel any review I write would suffer compared to the source. Nevertheless, here I go.
This is Krakauer's first book. It's a collection of his previously published articles on mountaineering (save the last one about Devil's Thumb which was written for the book.) What a gread read too whether you are an afficionado of the sport or, like me, you've never seen a pair of crampons in your life (by the way, those are a set of spikes climbers strap to their boots to support themselves and prevent slipping on icy slopes.) Some of the famous peaks that make an appearance here include K2, Mt McKinley, and the titular Eiger. Throughout you will read about some of the eccentric personalities in the international climbing community, personal triumph and inspiration, offshoots like bouldering and waterfall climbing, and horrific tragedy.
If you read Into Thin Air, you'll be surprised at how ...
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Like Shakespeare, who portrays the historic, tragic, and comic in human life, Jon Krakauer has an expansive understanding of human nature which he unfolds in his essays reflecting upon mountaineering. The concrete and gripping details of his essays tell us more about the people who climb than about climbing, and yet, as various and comprehensive as these essays are, the core reason why a person would pursue such a passion remains a mystery. Detailed exploration, restless curiosity, scintillating use of language, deft sense of drama -- hmm -- an American bard has appeared in the world of non-fiction.
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This book had a good variety of mountain climbing stories. Some I thought were way better than others. It's the perfect book for the mountain climber in the family.
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Jon has, in deatail described the mt Everest disaster. it has moved me and made me think about the presousness of life when it hangs in the balanc
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