The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti

The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti

Author:Walter Bonatti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-08-05T16:00:00+00:00


Oggioni following Bonatti up the last snowy peak of Rondoy North.

Certainly our climb would have been more complete if we had been able to go on along the ridge and traverse to the south peak, which was a little higher. But aside from the menacing weather there were impractical cornices of inconsistent snow that would have prevented us from reaching the other peak. Merely putting one foot on the summit ridge triggered a gigantic collapse of the cornice, which almost pulled me down into the abyss.

Ferrario and Frigieri, 2,500 feet below us, could see two black specks on the summit outlined against the blue sky; they called to us, but up there we could not hear them. Our only thought was to get down quickly to avoid the avalanches that, detached by the first warmth of the sun, had already started to roar down onto the glacier.



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