It's hard to watch

Arielle 2022-03-27 09:01:18

In 2016, my husband and I didn’t even have trekking poles, so we went out to climb Zugspitze with a feverish mind. It was October and the mountains were already covered in snow. I remember very clearly that the little girl at the information desk at the bottom of the mountain suggested that we take the cable car up the mountain, because the snow situation is not suitable for newbies like us. But I always overestimated myself, and I went to climb in a hurry. Climbing to 2/3, the ground is frozen, there is no steel cable on the mountain wall, it is very steep, and it will slide down at any time.

So watching this film, I watched it with a strong sense of substitution. Seeing them wearing such rudimentary equipment (even without hiking boots), seeing them unable to traverse a cliff, seeing the final protagonist screaming for help, and dying within a few meters of the rescuers. After watching it, my heart is really blocked, it is very uncomfortable.

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Extended Reading
  • Darlene 2022-04-23 07:03:57

    Come on, baby. This is the sentence that came to mind inexplicably.

  • Milton 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    for the true warriors

North Face quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in German, quoting English subtitles]

    Luise Fellner: [voiceover] When you're at the bottom - Toni once told me - at the foot of the wall, and you look up, you ask yourself: How can anyone climb that? Why would anyone even want to? But hours later when you're at the top looking down, you've forgotten everything. Except the one person you promised you would come back to.

  • [last lines]

    [in German, quoting English subtitles]

    Luise Fellner: [voiceover] All I know is that death spared me, and that Toni went away forever that day. One has lived if one has loved. There are times when I find this infinitely hard to believe. Most days I feel that I am alive. And that love is the reason for that.