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Praise for "Against the Wall:
"Elegiac, intensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing - the sudden knowledge that you are living in the rapidly closing window between beauty and death." - M. John Harrison, "TLS --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"Elegiac, intensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing - the sudden knowledge that you are living in the rapidly closing window between beauty and death." - M. John Harrison, "TLS --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Simon Yates' remarkable climbing journal, which offers the armchair alpinist a detailed account of lucky escapes, near disasters and more than a few triumphs, is one of the most readable mountaineering books currently on the market." -- "Literary Review"
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Loved this book. The stories are incredible, and it is written in a pleasant, not overstated way. After all, Mr. Yates does not need overstatement to make us realise how incredible his experiences have been. Hopefully it will wake the world up to the fact that Simon Yates is a mountaineer, not some guy who cut Joe's rope. And a very good mountaineer at that - he deserves more recognition than he gets.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A book by the guy who cut Joe Simpson's rope! I missed his first book, 'Against the Wall' but I'll definitely be buying it because 'Flame of Adventure' was a gripping read. The mountaineering stories were varied and exciting, although I was amazed that Simon Yates chose to dedicate only about a paragraph to the famous events on Siula Grande when he cut the rope to which his climbing partner was attached. Maybe he felt his friend had said it all in 'Touching the Void'. I enjoyed Simon Yates' thoughts on political situations he learned about through travelling and learning about his feelings on third world countries and the situations their people find themselves in. It was also interesting to read about the Russian climbing philosophies and comparisons between the contrasts in climbing and societies and the relationships between them. The main thing I dislike about Simon Yates' style is he seems very detached from his experiences sometimes, almost cold. He tells a great story but he's no Jon Krakauer or Joe Simpson!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Simon Yates writes in a simple and highly effective fashion and this style is one of the key strengths of this book. Many other climbing and mountaineering books rely on the presence of huge unclimbed rock faces, surprise survival or tragic death to keep in the reader involved. In this book this is not the case, here the reader is engaged through more subtle means. While it is true Yates travels of some far flung and exotic locations, the amount of actual climbing success that he achieves is limited. But he still manages to tell an entertaining tale which is peopled with many characters, some well know, other obscure. As an example of this , he hitches a lift from Western Australia to Victoria in the south east of the country, this is vaguely similar to hitching from London to Turkey in one go! On the way the driver has to resort to narcotic assistance to stay awake - and you get the feeling that the author was more stressed by this than by his wildest adventures in the mountains.
As in "Against the Wall" the final section of the book is more introspective than the preceding sections of the book. Here the author struggles to understand both his own motivation and the attitude of people around him. The waste produced on building sites and the single minded passion with which people pursue money stick him as no less outlandish than his own desire to climb and have "adventures".
This is a simple, but clearly not simple minded book that I really enjoyed.
As in "Against the Wall" the final section of the book is more introspective than the preceding sections of the book. Here the author struggles to understand both his own motivation and the attitude of people around him. The waste produced on building sites and the single minded passion with which people pursue money stick him as no less outlandish than his own desire to climb and have "adventures".
This is a simple, but clearly not simple minded book that I really enjoyed.
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Doubts and Dilemma
The content of `The Flame Of Adventure' starts and finishes in the Khan Tengri area of Kazakhstan with explanations on Russians, their values and their rules, and in between there... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by D. Elliott
Simple, honest and moving
Having met Simon Yates when he gave a talk at our local theatre, I was surprised that he seemed quite a shy, reticent man. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2009 by K. Midgley
The Flame of Adventure
The `Flame of Adventure' shows us that Simon Yates is every bit the captivating author as his more famous friend Joe Simpson and this book keeps you gripped as you explore his... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2009 by Spider Monkey
An easy but gripping read
compared to other mountaineering books i have read, this is much simpler and more embracing. as you follow Simon Yates on his travels around the world, you will be embraced by the... Read more
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