Bergtod
introduction to the book
introduction to the book
people got on at all times Passes and mountains. For hunting and trade, they went in prehistoric times in inhospitable areas. The most Tisenjoch on the Similaun hunter found in the Ötztal, the media nicknamed "Ötzi" named places, but from his body preserved in the ice product. Chamois hunters and crystal detector moving at all times in this high alpine terrain, but there was no mountaineering activities in the strict sense, since its goal is not was due to the activity itself, but served another purpose. Their ascents did not lead to a summit or ridges, but the trade or the meat of chamois, marmots and ibex lured them into the air. The Ascent of Mont Ventoux by the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca in April 1336 remained for centuries without imitation. Petrarch has experienced a kind of enlightenment. He saw from that moment the world is not with the eyes of the Middle Ages as an enemy, the only passage serves to paradise, but saw in it an intrinsic value. The actual mountain climbing as a mass movement, people of pure pleasure in an adventurous way out in mountain terrain, is only in the 18th Century emerged. In painting the landscape for centuries served only as an allegorical background and was not strictly speaking about an image. 110 years after Petrarch's ascent, this view changed the world. The confrontation with the real landscape began at Konrad Witz and his painting "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes" by 1444th But even in this picture is the landscape to illustrate a biblical theme. Only in the 17th century, takes the landscape as the actual image on an area without providing historical or biblical themes a background. At that time also developed a scientific interest in the landscape in general and in the mountains in particular. At the same time came in the wake of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786 and Horace-Benedict de Saussure scientific experiments on the summit of Mont Blanc in 1787, a real boom of mountaineering in the Alps. While de Saussure die gewagte Besteigung aus wissenschaftlichem Interesse unternahm, wurde das Bergsteigen in der Folge zu einer Freizeitbetätigung für reiche, wagemutige Engländer, die mit einheimischen Führern auf alle Alpengipfel stiegen. Die letzte grosse Erstbesteigung in den Alpen führte 1865 aufs Matterhorn, dem damals „letzten Problem in den Alpen“. Der Aufstieg gelang unter der Leitung des Schriftstellers und Malers Edward Whymper relativ leicht, doch stürzten beim Abstieg vier der sieben Tourenteilnehmer über die steile Nordwand in den Tod. Sie waren bei weitem nicht die ersten, die bei alpinistischer Tätigkeit ums Leben kamen, doch da mit dem Chamonixer Bergführer Michel Croz ein sehr bekannter Mann abgestürzt was followed in the media long controversy over the cause of the accident and the guilt. Whymper was a life long not free from suspicion that he had the rope on which hung the guys cut. The rope is now in the Museum to marvel at Matterhorn in Zermatt. is
While in modern, everyday life as possible to avoid any risk or at least assured of Alpinist carefully investigated this risk and explores the boundaries of just what is possible with specific training and an ever-improving technology. Always new, more difficult routes are opened up. For the top climbers, it is, by routes not only to rise, but they pay attention, they quickly, in a straight line; climb with little material, without preview or in winter with icy rock. Artificial oxygen in high altitude mountaineering positively received by many mountaineers as well as to reject the use of bolts to secure smooth, crack-free walls. Many of these extremes, as they call themselves, can in accidents their lives. You can crash are buried by avalanches, disappear for ever, or often for decades in crevasses until the "permanent" ice their bodies release it. The death of them is on the ever-increasing difficulties with reliable service. No amount of good rope, no matter how hard training and not the latest weather reports assets, the risk of falling, an avalanche, a life-threatening weather fall, or pulmonary or cerebral edema at high altitude ever completely off.
come in the mountains not only Extreme killed hikers can also easily slipping on steep terrain, a flash-rock or icefall be fatal.
The death of climbers left in the iconography of the cemeteries on particular tracks. A design element that is used on almost all climbers are tombs, rope and ice ax as a tool of the climbers. Often, the pimple is not only carved in relief in stone, but a pickle made of bronze, possibly with a rope made of bronze adorn many graves.
As in life so in death form the guide a special category of the climbers. They, too, are the first professional athlete ever, despite much experience in dealing with the objective dangers of the alpine world is not immune to leave her job in life. On their graves the title of "guide" is almost always noted, even if they died in old age in bed.
per year, in the Swiss mountains 120-200 people died. This was in the early days of mountaineering so and it is not different today. The routes are always difficult, climbing technique and training the climbers adapt constantly to the latest needs, but accidents are fatal with great regularity.
With the changing social and spiritual importance of the mountain climbing was backed and has also to deal with the death in mountaineering forever changed with the times. After successful climbs in the early climbers were celebrated as heroes. The first by increasing the Eiger North Wall were greeted by Hitler personally and honored as a national hero.
were at one of the frequent crashes, they were buried in graves romantic climbers. The cemeteries in Grindelwald wall, Zermatt or Chamonix bear eloquent witness. Since the Second World War graves climbers have adjusted to the general usage simpler. Presumably through experience the Second World War was clearly disenchanted the hero myth. Pragmatic interpretations of alpine activity and suppressed the heroic soldier of the past. Today's leisure society offers the possibility of a large range of more or less dangerous sports to choose where the climbing just a different game species.
has always been successful climbers in the center of public interest. Newspapers do it pursues and scrambled to get exclusive interviews. Already the first ascents of the 19 Century, media events, the first order. Spectacular crashes delivered as that of the first ascent of the Matterhorn during decades of substance Speculation. Just as the disappearance of Günther Messner Diamir face of Nanga Parbat on after 35 years is always good for headlines. The television reported already in the 60 years ago from a rescue party from the Eiger North Face, and the mountaineers of that generation, like John Harlin could, like pop stars are welcome. Who broke the terms of the possible until now, found the way into the media and was often there was more and more attention than he would like.
medialized The modern world offers the opportunity not only to the actions of the extremists to take part by being daring ascents with telescopes in its sights, but the internet provides platforms where everyone of his films and pictures can make available publicly. Nowadays one can watch at home in countless repetitions at the desk, like a mountain climber with endless rollovers from one ledge to the next, the ice fields and Coulloirs to fall at the foot of the wall and the very bottom as a bloody tangle of bones, pieces of meat and pieces of cloth in the debris hits. Amateur filmmakers to keep their mobile phone's camera often surprisingly quiet on plunging.
In this book, I am going to not only the death of the climber. I have also sought answers to the question of why people ever go to these mountains. Why are they to stand on a summit or climb through a wall to take this danger to himself. A common Antwort auf diese Frage war, dass sich Bergsteiger nie so lebendig fühlen, wie wenn sie sich in der unmittelbaren Nähe des Todes bewegen. Das mag erstaunen, doch bei näherem Betrachten fand ich heraus, dass die beiden sich vermeintlich ausschliessenden Triebe des Menschen, der Lebenstrieb und der Todestrieb nicht nur ganz nahe beisammen liegen, sondern einander wie zusammengehörige und einander zudienende Grundprinzipien des Lebens sogar bedingen, somit einer der Triebe ohne den Andern nicht denkbar ist.
So wählt jedes der Kapitel seinen eigenen Blickwinkel und versucht, das Thema von möglichst vielen verschiedenen Perspektiven zu beleuchten. Im Kapitel 1 verfolge ich die Geschichte eines Lawinenunfalls vom Unfallzeitpunkt im Jahr 1983 to this day. The aim is to identify who is affected and everything is treated as a serious incident in the media. Chapters 2-6 are average and extreme climbers to speak but also rescuers, mountain guides, survivors and victims who have survived their accident. I came across lonely walks in the mountains for signs of accidents and I have let them lead to further thoughts. Other material comes from the archives of the DAV, SAC and OeAV and libraries.
While in modern, everyday life as possible to avoid any risk or at least assured of Alpinist carefully investigated this risk and explores the boundaries of just what is possible with specific training and an ever-improving technology. Always new, more difficult routes are opened up. For the top climbers, it is, by routes not only to rise, but they pay attention, they quickly, in a straight line; climb with little material, without preview or in winter with icy rock. Artificial oxygen in high altitude mountaineering positively received by many mountaineers as well as to reject the use of bolts to secure smooth, crack-free walls. Many of these extremes, as they call themselves, can in accidents their lives. You can crash are buried by avalanches, disappear for ever, or often for decades in crevasses until the "permanent" ice their bodies release it. The death of them is on the ever-increasing difficulties with reliable service. No amount of good rope, no matter how hard training and not the latest weather reports assets, the risk of falling, an avalanche, a life-threatening weather fall, or pulmonary or cerebral edema at high altitude ever completely off.
come in the mountains not only Extreme killed hikers can also easily slipping on steep terrain, a flash-rock or icefall be fatal.
The death of climbers left in the iconography of the cemeteries on particular tracks. A design element that is used on almost all climbers are tombs, rope and ice ax as a tool of the climbers. Often, the pimple is not only carved in relief in stone, but a pickle made of bronze, possibly with a rope made of bronze adorn many graves.
As in life so in death form the guide a special category of the climbers. They, too, are the first professional athlete ever, despite much experience in dealing with the objective dangers of the alpine world is not immune to leave her job in life. On their graves the title of "guide" is almost always noted, even if they died in old age in bed.
per year, in the Swiss mountains 120-200 people died. This was in the early days of mountaineering so and it is not different today. The routes are always difficult, climbing technique and training the climbers adapt constantly to the latest needs, but accidents are fatal with great regularity.
With the changing social and spiritual importance of the mountain climbing was backed and has also to deal with the death in mountaineering forever changed with the times. After successful climbs in the early climbers were celebrated as heroes. The first by increasing the Eiger North Wall were greeted by Hitler personally and honored as a national hero.
were at one of the frequent crashes, they were buried in graves romantic climbers. The cemeteries in Grindelwald wall, Zermatt or Chamonix bear eloquent witness. Since the Second World War graves climbers have adjusted to the general usage simpler. Presumably through experience the Second World War was clearly disenchanted the hero myth. Pragmatic interpretations of alpine activity and suppressed the heroic soldier of the past. Today's leisure society offers the possibility of a large range of more or less dangerous sports to choose where the climbing just a different game species.
has always been successful climbers in the center of public interest. Newspapers do it pursues and scrambled to get exclusive interviews. Already the first ascents of the 19 Century, media events, the first order. Spectacular crashes delivered as that of the first ascent of the Matterhorn during decades of substance Speculation. Just as the disappearance of Günther Messner Diamir face of Nanga Parbat on after 35 years is always good for headlines. The television reported already in the 60 years ago from a rescue party from the Eiger North Face, and the mountaineers of that generation, like John Harlin could, like pop stars are welcome. Who broke the terms of the possible until now, found the way into the media and was often there was more and more attention than he would like.
medialized The modern world offers the opportunity not only to the actions of the extremists to take part by being daring ascents with telescopes in its sights, but the internet provides platforms where everyone of his films and pictures can make available publicly. Nowadays one can watch at home in countless repetitions at the desk, like a mountain climber with endless rollovers from one ledge to the next, the ice fields and Coulloirs to fall at the foot of the wall and the very bottom as a bloody tangle of bones, pieces of meat and pieces of cloth in the debris hits. Amateur filmmakers to keep their mobile phone's camera often surprisingly quiet on plunging.
In this book, I am going to not only the death of the climber. I have also sought answers to the question of why people ever go to these mountains. Why are they to stand on a summit or climb through a wall to take this danger to himself. A common Antwort auf diese Frage war, dass sich Bergsteiger nie so lebendig fühlen, wie wenn sie sich in der unmittelbaren Nähe des Todes bewegen. Das mag erstaunen, doch bei näherem Betrachten fand ich heraus, dass die beiden sich vermeintlich ausschliessenden Triebe des Menschen, der Lebenstrieb und der Todestrieb nicht nur ganz nahe beisammen liegen, sondern einander wie zusammengehörige und einander zudienende Grundprinzipien des Lebens sogar bedingen, somit einer der Triebe ohne den Andern nicht denkbar ist.
So wählt jedes der Kapitel seinen eigenen Blickwinkel und versucht, das Thema von möglichst vielen verschiedenen Perspektiven zu beleuchten. Im Kapitel 1 verfolge ich die Geschichte eines Lawinenunfalls vom Unfallzeitpunkt im Jahr 1983 to this day. The aim is to identify who is affected and everything is treated as a serious incident in the media. Chapters 2-6 are average and extreme climbers to speak but also rescuers, mountain guides, survivors and victims who have survived their accident. I came across lonely walks in the mountains for signs of accidents and I have let them lead to further thoughts. Other material comes from the archives of the DAV, SAC and OeAV and libraries.
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