Œuvres de Gene Rose
High Odyssey: The First Solo Winter Assault of Mount Whitney and the Muir Trail Area, from the Diary of Orland… (1974) 14 exemplaires
Sierra Centennial 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 39
- Popularité
- #376,657
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
“[T]he sun had slipped low in the winter sky, raking the walls of the mountain amphitheater with the warm colors of alpenglow. So lighted, the ridges and buttresses sprang from the crest, complementing and contrasting with the cold shadows which formed an abstract pattern of mountain magic.” – pg.58
Perhaps there would have been more of these types of passages if the book had actually been authored by the mountaineer himself. However, I still liked it. It's just that in other similar books, those written by the adventurer, these types of passages show up slightly more frequently.
I also enjoy the environmental awareness of the adventurer that usually comes up for a sentence or two in similar works. Here, the near extinction of the Sierra wolf is touched on. “On his return he discovered several large wolf tracks below his cabin. Bart carefully inspected the new prints, and concluded that the hut had been visited by more than one wolf. He had heard their lonely wail weeks earlier and had seen their tracks atop Glen Pass; so he was assured that the Sierra wolf was not extinct.” – pg.112
I enjoyed this book, it was easy, what I expected, and had a few points that really appealed to me. I would recommend this to anyone who also likes to read these older man-goes-out-into-nature type books.
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