Possibly the most frequently told mountaineering tale of our time, though, is that of Simon Yates and Joe Simpson’s ascent of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, which would lead to Simon having to cut Joe’s rope, Joe surviving and crawling back to safety, and the story being immortalised as触摸空隙;屡获殊荣的书《电影》,现在是一部戏。
“I think the problem with [climbing] crossing over to a mainstream audience is that they don’t completely understand the mechanics of it,” he says, “and unless you completely understand the mechanics of it, you can’t fully understand the rest; how much danger they’re in, whether someone is at fault or not, the big things there, so they’re viewing it on a different level.”
“One of the first things I kept thinking about non-climbers was that it was going to be very difficult to get them to care about Joe, because they were going to start by thinking ‘they shouldn’t have been there to start with.’
“不过,我真的也希望登山者喜欢它。I think it’s fair to say that climbers are kind of an outsider group, so my way in for the climbers was to recognise that, to let them see we had done our research and hope that then they would let their guard down and come with us on our journey. That was little things like using the Clachaig Inn in Glencoe as a setting.”
“When I was younger there was a certain amount of anxiety and fear which is gone now, largely because of my mountain experience and, well, there’s more to lose on some levels, if you’ve got a family, but on another level, you haven’t got a whole life in front of you.
“To kind of blow it at 56 when you’ve spent 35 years climbing mountains and you’ve been to pretty much every group of mountains bar one or two that you want to go to… if you blow it then, at least you’ve done something with your life, haven’t you?”
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