To the mountaineering – as to the tops – can be reached by different ways. There are those who take him so attached to his essence that he touches the atavistic. There is, for example. The answer George Mallory gave to the New York Times when, in 1923, they asked him why he dedicated so many efforts to climb a mountain. “Because he’s there,” he replied by saying everything without saying anything in a reply full of purity and irony. There are those who begin to rise for that human reason to do something for the mere pleasure of stopping doing so. After hours of promotion, effort, assuming risks and making decisions that can cost lives; Reach the top, take time to look around and start being aware of the achievement. A delicate part will still be – the descent – but in those moments reality will make sense. And there are also those who arrived at the alpinism of the family. Despite the early risks, the cold and the dangers offered by the mountain, an air of mystery was gradually incorporated into those excursions. Then, to try to find answers, the books arrived. Why do the mountains go up? What is up there that generates so much attraction? Few literatures are as fabulous and evocative as the one that portrays mountaineering.
Oscar Gogorza, journalist and high mountain guide, was that child who one day began to understand the mountaineers through reading. Over time, it would become a reference of the mountain chronicle – written in the country since 1998. I would do it through texts that are read as an adventure story. Written from knowledge and experience; from the elegance of telling the essential and transmitting emotion; From an admiration contained to its protagonists, respectful of its readers. This is mountain (debate), the book that has just been published and in which it offers a fun and exciting tour of history, the reasons and contradictions of mountaineering. A unique opportunity to feel the light and darkness of Everest or Nanga Parbat without leaving the blanket of the blanket on the house sofa.
