The Mountains of My Life
by Walter Bonatti, translated by Robert Marshall
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“Bonatti was born in 1930 and was at his peak in the 1950s. He was extreme in who he was and what he did. He was climbing the cutting-edge routes—extremely difficult climbs—as a teenager with no gear. He would be in, like, a potato sack, doing the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses—which is a route that climbers today still idolise. Each chapter centers on a particular climb and tells the story of it. It’s written in the first person, and you get privileged access into his mind. He’s very interesting, a very intelligent man. He became a journalist and photographer afterwards, and travelled the world as an explorer. So his writing is good as well.” Read more...
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