(DOWNLOAD) "Lukas Grimm Climbs the Stovepipe (Short Story)" by Confrontation ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Lukas Grimm Climbs the Stovepipe (Short Story)
- Author : Confrontation
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 100 KB
Description
You have to set off from the Schweizer Alpenclub Hotel quite early in the morning else you will never make it by nightfall and it is too frightening to fly in the dark. The morning shade will be with you for the first half of the day since you are climbing the southeastern wall of the canyon. It is August but in the morning shade it feels like November. By the time you break the sun line you will be in a deep sweat and you will have to carry the clothes that are on your back in addition to the rucksack. The rucksack contains two slices of brown bread, a chunk of mountain cheese--something like raclette but to be eaten uncooked, unmelted--and two bottles of Culmbacher ale. Did you say you would have to carry the clothes? No. Today you can drop the jacket and the shirts on the side of the path as you go. Fold them neatly, Quentin did, so that other climbers will see they are not trash and will make use of them. Someone should make use of them. Hiking up the road to the S.A.C. Hotel from the funicular station, where you had to leave your car, you couldn't help but notice all the memorials bolted to the cliff face. Children killed on the road, men killed felling trees in the forest above the road, everyone else killed by avalanches that removed the road. Some of the names stick with you: Lukas Tresch, "hurried by death," bearing your Christian name with him when a winter storm took him out, rest in pieces, Lukas; Fritz Jauch, a fifteen-year-old, "killed in an accident"; Franz Z'graggen-Jauch, a relative of the boy, only a few years older than he, but killed by a felled and falling tree. The photographs too stick with you: a thin, rugged old man with triste eyes and an elf's hat, a boy of fifteen just dying to live his life, a sweet nineteen-year-old who is nothing other than that, sweet, nineteen, and dead.