Book Review: tightrope walks of my life
Hans Saler: life and death, guilt and destiny - the crossing over of extreme. Tightrope walks of my life
"The Indian palm leaf library completely changed my outlook on life. Suddenly showed a sense of the tragic events. "
As a teenager, Hans Saler climbed the most difficult alpine walls. But something seemed to follow as a shadow: the death of loved friends who were traveling with him.
After the Nanga Parbat-Expedition, in Günther Messner was killed, he travels to India and finds there in the palm leaf library down his previous life. Gripping he tells in this book his most important adventure in the light, that life is more than what we believe.
"From the yearning and disillusionment is so understanding. This insight builds up again to desire, because it can not live without them. So I would always walk between desire and knowledge to hunger in my life never be satisfied. "
Life and death, guilt and ski … mehrcksal are the themes that run like a thread through the lives of Hans Saler. Even as a boy of twelve, he begins with the extreme mountaineering and is confronted early with the death of mountaineers.
His spectacular ascents in 1970 as a twenty-two enable him to participate in the Nanga Parbat-Expedition, which passes through the high wall of earth and the Günther Messner is killed.
After the tragic expedition, Hans Saler travels to India and make an experience that changed his view fundamental to the life: he receives insight into the palm leaf library. There, he recorded his entire life – from an Indian master, who lived five hundred years ago.
Hans Salers gripping descriptions go far beyond the pure mountain adventure beyond philosophical knowledge are just as deep wisdom.
Facts:
Tightrope walks of my life
Hans Saler
1st Edition 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 978-3-485-01304-8
Nymphenburger Publisher
19.95 EUR
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