The master of the mountains
From the window I see the mountains rise Pyrenees, splendid, great. It's the middle of winter and snow flooded mountains glowing against the blue sky. After the explosion of red color, yellow and green, two months ago, deciduous forests are now brown and silent. Turn on the computer and just start typing while looking at that landscape. Sorry to start these lines that emotion deep inside, almost religious, the same as that referred Giner looking in Guadarrama a mountain landscape. Not easy for me to write the foreword to this book. Although it is in the midst of these mountains with which, I am sure, I share the same feeling with my friend, and teacher, Eduardo Martinez de Pison. And it is for several reasons. The first is to try to keep up with a text of this intellectual depth and height. There are several kinds of books. Today the most common are disposable, that forget as fast as read. But there are others who are with you life, to which occasionally become, like visiting an old friend or admires a painting from the Prado Museum want, and in the contemplation of Whose you never tired. This you have in your hands is one of those books.
Eduardo makes her look about these extraordinary landscapes, and also about many other issues of life, is unique, of exceptional acuity
The second reason is a quality that only a few treasure, Eduardo including, and that makes her look about these extraordinary landscapes, and also about many other issues of life, is unique, of exceptional acuity. And therefore, this book as, unrepeatable. Competing with him in this respect not only be vain, but, worse, an impossible task. But, yet, I think I can say something to help them read this book.
I have been fortunate to share many trips with Eduardo for many of Asia Central. We crossed the motorcycle Taklamakan and desert drive Gobi and much of the extent of Tibet. We walked glaciers Charakusa and Baltoro. And of course we have traveled throughout much of the most impressive ways Silk Road. Of Xian a Kashgar, the Islamabad a Dunhuang and Lhasa a Yiayuguan, where it ends, or begins, the Great Wall, dividing the civilized world from barbarism; through mountains like Ata Muztag, the Kailash or the K2, legendary places, names that arouse fascination with these caravans, exchanging goods, ideas and religions, set of paths formed the most famous and momentous in the history of mankind.
Roads are located in that place where the maps are dissolved in the imagination of people. Names of cities and places that give off great mysteries and adventures
Roads are located in that place where the maps are dissolved in the imagination of people. Names of cities and places that give off great mysteries and adventures. They continue to be made every day and getting rid, changing journey to overcome new obstacles, as in the days of Alexander the Marco Polo, and remain crucial to the geography and history. Here everything is in transformation, pues worlds are in confrontation, growing part and one that, having arrived intact medieval, disintegrates in solitude. We do not know for how long but, for our luck, both worlds are still there, saturated adventures, uncertainty, mountains and deserts, uniting East and West, communicating ideas, people and passions as a thousand years. Exploring the Silk Road, in history, people and landscapes, hand of Martinez de Pison, is an adventure that will touch and enrich them, as happens after every great journey.
Because Eduardo has a magic carpet that transports you from the recesses unexplored landscapes, of feelings and emotions. And it does so with intelligence, curiosity and science, almost evenly. So you abandon yourself to your care, Embark roll up to her and this wonderful literary adventure. Addition, also has an old-fashioned backpack, a fleece color red, an "A Son" B-side, and boots worn from walking along the trails of the Pyrenees autumn; and clear and calm look which tells you, in a plis plas, centuries of pressures and tectonic plate thrusts, the slow movement of glaciers and valleys forming, or how the planet orogenic forces have risen to heaven the bottom of a sea so old that even he remembers. All with a spirit and a smile so free that can not be contained in any classroom, or any landscape, not even the width of Tibet or the Himalayan altitude, since all overflowing with curiosity unrepentant traveler.
Eduardo has a magic carpet that transports you from the recesses unexplored landscapes, of feelings and emotions
Because Edward is one of those few that remain humanist scholars, heir to a Renaissance tradition of nature did his study, that has made the best laboratory mountains where search order to the apparent chaos, he said, rules the universe. I think it has only to follow the path taken by some men he most admires, as Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Wilson, Giner the Sanchez Teran. That is a luxury, and in my case an honor, carpooling and books with such a master. In his hand will access another look at the landscape, emotions, mountains and glaciers, history and all that, intertwined as cherries, out of these pages that you are about to read. They discover in depth look, deep in thought and wisdom in the words. And, especially, beauty. Beauty, course, less domesticated landscapes in the world. But beauty in the way they look, in thinking. Beauty in the words.
It is a luxury, and in my case an honor, carpooling and books with such a master. In his hand will access another look at the landscape, emotions, mountains and glaciers
I think it is attributed to Picasso a phrase that could well apply, in your area, Eduardo. Said the great painter who had taken a lifetime to learn to paint like a child. There are very few people who can continue to enjoy, lifetime, the privilege to face the vicissitudes of life and landscapes of the Earth, with the clean look, inquisitive and curious child. She my friend has joined a mountaineer's passion and wisdom of a scientist. In all these places he has visited has left some of the teacher-child who is, although, return, is enriched with the spiritual food found only in those few places, where still resists the solitude and beauty of the planet. In this way I saw him get excited at the foot of Chogolisa, enjoying the sunset in one of the most spectacular mountain scenery, as tears left indelible marks on the soul and cheeks.
I've been excited at the foot of Chogolisa, enjoying the sunset in one of the most spectacular mountain scenery, as tears left indelible marks on the soul and cheeks
In the passage serene glacier Charakusa, by Stone Forest in Yunnan fairytale, in vibrant light found only on the Tibetan plateau, into the dark abyss of the walls of Trango, in Karakorum, where dreams swaying of the best climbers, -and in some of the mountains, deserts and glaciers, as he knows, I love most- are carved much of the wisdom and the spirit, free critical, My friend. In exchange, your eyes will forever reflexes Everest and Nanga Parbat, intermingled with those of Peña Telera, Dunes Taklamakan and glacier frozen waves Rongbuk and forests that bloom every spring. And people all over the world. People who, such as Hushé, always remember him fondly.
Converts the time in a different time adventure, of fullness, and existence in minutes full of life
It is in those places where there is an austere world, in its people and its landscapes, that gives us the feeling of the essential. And we enriched. There runs the way par excellence, thousand times repeated, the great journey of antiquity by the ancient, endless caravan route, with its mysteries and wonders and fascinating stories. As this Eduardo, that evokes old knowledge and values so forgotten recovery today and as needed, for travel and life, as the effort, intelligence, the ability, patience, prudence or courage. That becomes adventure time at a different time, of fullness, and existence in minutes full of life. Come in your hand and dive into untamed landscapes and countless adventures. You will not regret. Why at the end will have traveled that road where legendary and mysterious, in expression Grousset, "The traveler still sees the light of a star that died centuries ago".
Comments (3)
Javier Brandoli
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All we like to travel, This post is simply a perfect summary of the soul of a traveler. Well, dual, Sebastian Martinez Alvaro and Rammer, Edge of the Impossible, reflect all that you admire, dreams and enjoy.
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Ricardo Coarasa
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For those who have dreamed of At the Edge, is a pleasure to read to Sebastian and Eduardo. Both convey the passion for adventure, the mountains and the knowledge that this legendary program encouraged. Thank you both go with us this path of travel stories and is VaP.
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Mayte
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That pretty! I am left speechless and in some pieces just gave me goosebumps, with music and force that has this text!!!
I want to read the book!!!
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