Un posto in cielo by Anatolij Bukreev

What strikes you most in this book is precisely its 'diary' format. Bukreev, you can feel it, throughout all its pages cannot be anything but sincere.

The diaries of an unwitting hero

A posthumous book edited by Linda Wylie, it collects the most important diary pages of the late Kazakh mountaineer: Anatolij Bukreev.

What strikes you most in this book is precisely its 'diary' format. Bukreev, you can feel it, throughout all its pages cannot be anything but sincere.

He talks to himself, to his partner, to his friends, and he talks with passion about the mountains, about the meaning that mountains and mountaineering had for him. The sacrifice and the unspeakable effort of bringing to light a Soviet mountaineering of “character” against the backdrop of the decline of a social and educational system, the Soviet one, which had put content before appearances. A man first, a professional second, shy, perhaps... a little frightened and lost. But a man of the mountains, one of those reserved people we often meet on our hikes and who, in their silence and in their actions, say much more than we do, we who make so much noise…

A book from which you can draw important philosophical ideas and deep insights into 'meaning'. Anyone who knows the Into Thin Air tragedy will be able to read the great heroism of a mountaineer who managed to do everything that was humanly possible…

Author: Anatolij Bukreev (edited by Linda Wylie)

To find out more about Anatolij Bukreev we recommend reading: Cometa sull'Annapurna by Simone Moro