Rother

Auf Abwegen

<p>Malte Roeper's "Auf Abwegen" is a classic of alpine literature. The entertaining stories are full of unbridled zest for life - they tell of extreme adventures and unusual experiences, of the highs and lows of life: Eiger North Face solo, Direttissima on the Dru, traveling by hitchhiker and freight train, jobs in the port of Hamburg and bridge jumping... He skillfully combines these stories of daily exuberance and other incidents with reflections on the times and zeitgeist. Self-deprecatingly, he repeatedly raises the question of the sense and nonsense of his actions, because "mountaineering," says Malte Roeper, "is a form of leisure behavior in industrial society. Mountaineering is strenuous and at the same time has a certain entertainment value, but is neither productive nor efficient in any way. A society based on the division of labor makes casual wear, and abundance makes wantonness. Mountaineering, like most beautiful things in life, is actually superfluous."</p> <p>Auf Abwegen is 16 gripping stories from vertical to horizontal. It's not about the sport-oriented performance, but always about the precise, exciting and humorously described experience itself. The adventure of thinking is always on a par with the adventure of an extreme thousand-metre wall, which makes these reports, first published in 1995, just as worth reading for the layman as for the expert. </p> <p>With a foreword by Bernd Arnold</p> <p>Contents</p> <ul> <li>When free climbing was still freak climbing (The North German climbing scene at the end of the seventies)</li> <li>The trip to Malaga (Far out, first time)</li> <li>Angst im Dunkeln (Nantblanc-Flanke solo)</li> <li>Der Jack-London-Fanclub (Unterwegs mit Güterzügen)</li> <li>In Peru (Nichts ist unmöglich)</li> <li>Der geschlossene Kreis (Allein am Eiger)</li> <li>On the road (Reisen per Anhalter)</li> <li>Zimmer mit Aussicht (Neun Tage am Ogre-South Pillar)</li> <li>Bigwall in Chamonix (French Direttissima on the Drus)</li> <li>High walls, empty pockets (Obituary of the Pierre d'Orthaz campsite)</li> <li>Jobs (Harbor - guinea pig - cab)</li> <li>Tour de force (Two weeks with Robert Jasper)</li> <li>Opera vertical (Dedicated to Maria Callas: A first ascent)</li> <li>Ten Years After (Anniversary on the Crozpfeiler)</li> <li>The Elixirs of Exuberance (Bridge Jumping)</li> <li>Ice Climbing in the Light of Science! (A fiction)</li> <li>Afterword (made from Jack London: "King Alcohol")</li> </ul> <p>Malte Roeper | Bergverlag Rother | 4th edition 2009 | 175 pages | 2 topos | format 12 x 19 cm | hardcover with dust jacket</p>