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2000s: It’s One Thing to Lose Your Life. It’s Another to Lose Your Soul
2000s: It’s One Thing to Lose Your Life. It’s Another to Lose Your Soul
When climber Nick Grevers is brought down from the mountains after a terrible accident he has lost his looks, his hopes and his climbing companion. His account of what happened on the forbidden peak of the Maudit is garbled, almost hallucinogenic. Soon it becomes apparent more than his shattered body has returned: those that treat his disfigured face begin experiencing extraordinary and disturbing psychic events that suggest that Nick has unleashed some ancient and primal menace on his ill-fated expedition.
Nick’s partner Sam Avery has a terrible choice to make. He fell in love with Nick’s youth, vitality and beauty. Now these are gone and all that is left is a haunted mummy-worse, a glimpse beneath the bandages can literally send a person insane.
Sam must decide: either to flee to America, or to take Nick on a journey back to the mountains, the very source of the curse, the little Alpine Village of Grimnetz, its soul-possesed Birds of Death and it legends of human sacrifice and, ultimately, its haunted mountain, the Maudit.
Mont Maudit (4,465 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The French name literally means “Cursed Mountain. If you like the idea of mountain climbing then this book takes you into that world and up thatmountain. What a moiuntain to experience! Its name says it all.
In 2012,a group of climbers were killed by an avalanche as they attempted a dawn ascent of the mountain. Nine others were injured.
Destination : French Alps, Switzerland Author/Guide: Thomas Olde Heuvelt Departure Time: 2000s
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