Montaña
Language: Spanish
Published by DEBATE, 2025
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- Title
- Montaña
- Author
- DEBATE
- Publisher
- DEBATE
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8419642657
- ISBN 13
- 9788419642653
¿Por qué nos obsesiona alcanzar la cima?
El periodista y guía de alta montaña Oscar Gogorza reflexiona sobre el afán del ser humano por conquistar cimas y paredes.
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«Un divertido y apasionante recorrido por la historia, los motivos y contradicciones del alpinismo. Una oportunidad única de sentir la luz y la oscuridad del Everest o del Nanga Parbat sin salir del cobijo de la manta en el sofá de casa». Pedro Zuazua, El País
Montaña viaja en el tiempo, a través de varias historias universales y alguna aventura inédita del autor, para explicar la misteriosa relación del ser humano con las cimas, y sobre todo consigo mismo y con los demás: de los pioneros en el Mont Blanc a la vanguardia del estilo alpino en el Himalaya; de la curiosidad científica de Saussure a la búsqueda de la perfección ética y estética de Steve House… Existen tantas motivaciones y justificaciones para lanzarse a subir montañas como personas hay en el mundo.
También esboza lo que parece ser un sueño que nunca termina de cumplirse: la pretendida «locura» de Paul Preuss, que a principios del siglo XX defendía que el uso de la cuerda molestaba al escalador, entronca con la costumbre de Alex Honnold de moverse por la pared como si estuviese desnudo; los «ochomiles», antes sinónimo de épica y dificultad, son ahora un destino para turistas; y mujeres como Lynn Hill o Wanda Rutkiewicz siguen ejemplificando el accidentado camino de la igualdad en un mundo vertical plagado de contradicciones e incluso de tramposos dopados a base de mentiras. Cada generación mejora a la anterior a base de velocidad, técnica y nuevas herramientas; pero la muerte, y el juego para escapar de ella, sigue siendo el hilo conductor que acompaña al legítimo deseo de exponerse al límite para conquistar… ¿lo inútil?
«Un divertido y apasionante recorrido por la historia, los motivos y contradicciones del alpinismo. Una oportunidad única de sentir la luz y la oscuridad del Everest o del Nanga Parbat sin salir del cobijo de la manta en el sofá de casa». Pedro Zuazua, El País
«Óscar Gogorza es el más brillante relator de asuntos relacionados con la montaña, la alta montaña, la escalada y, en definitiva, el mundo de los montes de todos cuantos escriben en este país». Jorge Nagore, Noticias de Guipuzcoa
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About the Author
Oscar Gogorza (Irún, 1972) ha hecho de la montaña el eje principal de su vida laboral. Licenciado en Periodismo por la Universidad de Navarra, ha dirigido durante una década la revista especializada Campobase, firma sus textos en El País desde 1998 y es guía de alta montaña UIAGM desde 2007. Cuando no escribe es porque está guiando en los Pirineos o en los Alpes.
Como aspirante a alpinista ha recorrido las paredes más relevantes de la península, escalado algunas de las míticas caras norte de los Alpes (Eiger, Dru, Grandes Jorasses…) y visitado el granito de Yosemite, los Bugaboos y el hielo de las Rocosas. No ha tenido la misma suerte en el Himalaya de Nepal y Pakistán o en la Patagonia.
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