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Pamir,
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La Martiniere editions recently published a
marvelous book . Photographer Matthieu Paley and his wife Mareile Paley
accompanied by anthropologist Ted Callahan take us on their enthusiastic
story for over 10 years on this little end of the world: the little
Pamir.
The story of the three is operated, punctuated by some judicious cropping
historical and cultural richness of great value for the history of this
region, like those of Kyrgyz people buffeted by geopolitical complex
circumstances. This is precisely what makes this book exciting. The
balance between narrative of exalted adventurers and thousand questions
this story raises about the culture and history of these people on their
bums plateau is well conducted. The story is also punctuated by quotes
as an homage to Erik Shipton, Hedin, Wood ... to have humility and honesty
that others in past passed by this area is quite rare and makes this
book highly respectable.
But this is not a book for science or for historians, it is an adventure
book and pictures. Matthieu's pictures are wonderful. With the beauty
of the book very pleasant to touch on a soft print pleasant for eyes,
the book is a very accomplished work both in substance and in form.
Ultimately this is a huge job, Matt hat, Mareile and Ted!
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"Chronik
der Erschliessung des Western Karakorum"
By Wolfgang Heichel
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"Chronik DER erschliebung of Karakorum
" is the first volume of an incredible historical and geographical
books about Karakoram range. This book chronologically tell the great
exploration dates of the Western part of the range since the first explorations
in the 19th century until the 20th. This first volume describe one of
the most mysterious parts of the range (Batura, Yashkuk, Purian Sar,
Kampir Dior, Koz Sar, Lupghar, Passu and Naltar groups) because of the
rare expeditions.
Wolfgang Hechel is the author of these 342 pages
of texts illustrated by 17 maps (drawn by Jerzy Wala), 142 Abbildungen
and 20 Skizzen. This book presents already the result of an incredible
work. Wolfgang continues to write the continuation of this work, areas
after area dates after dates, expeditions after expeditions, a work
maybe complete in 2008 !.
Next parts of the chronicle:
Part 1 : "Western Karakorum" : Now available !
part 2 : Rakaposhi-Haramosh-Spantik-Sosbun Range (winter 2006/spring
2007, in english language)
part 3 : Hispar Range (finish approximate in inter 2007 in english language)
Hinduraj / Thui Range (finish approximate in
2007 / spring 2008 in english language)
Pamir-I-Wakhan (finish approximate in summer 2008, in english language)
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"Chronik DER erschliebung of Karakorum
" is the result of what Blankonthemap dreamed to illustrate at
its beginnings : The exhaustive chronicle of the climb history in Karakoram
range. Wolfgang Heichel achievde this gigantic project, at least for
the Western part of the range. To know: this book written in German
is not translated yet in English language but the charts and the photographs
are very rare values. Lucky German-speaking or polyglot devils will
regale themself of a very rich texte about the history of this mountainous
area, the most fabulous of the world !
Book value : 27 Euros
(inclusive postal costs)
To get the book, write to Wolfgang
Heichel :
Wolfgang Heichel
Am Hutberg 9
D-01917 Kamenz
Germany
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"Shimshal"
By
Pam Henson
Pam Henson is living in New Zealand, she's writing
book reviews and feature articles about travel for newspapers, she's
professional writer. Passionate about the Northern areas, it has just
completed a very beautiful book on Shimshal. She entrusts her project
to us in a little interview :
 I'm
a very active member of the New Zealand Green Party, which has had some
members in parliament for the last ten years. I'm 57 now, and my main
physical activity is trekking. I love mountains, trekking, and for 15
years I was an enthusiastic English potholer, including one visit to
Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees.To be honest, I only made one small
horizontal trip in there, and it was a long time ago. I was potholing
in various countries such as Papua New Guinea and Bulgaria before I
moved to New Zealand from England.
This book has two aims : one is to promote knowledge
about Pakistan and to encourage a more sympathetic attitude to the country.
The other is to raise money for our Trust, the Shimshal Trust, which
provides money for scholarships for Shimshali to go to university, or
teacher training. The village has a subsistence farming culture, although
that is changing, and it is hard for them to get the money to pay for
education and training.
It's important for me to see more equal distribution
of resources amongst the world's countries. For that to happen there
has to be more understanding. Most people in Pakistan are great-hearted
and welcoming, despite the lack of resources. Our little trust tries
to set an example in a very small way of understanding and sharing resources.
The book has 216 pages including 8 pages of
colour photographs.
It costs $25US plus $5 US postage and packing.
the payment is made by
credit card using paypal on line.
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Or send a cheque
to :
Pam Henson
1/45 Eden street, Island Bay, Wellington
New Zealand
pam.henson@paradise.net.nz
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Hautes
vallées du Pakistan
Par
Pierre Neyret et Géraldine Benestar
C'est à une œuvre ambitieuse à
laquelle Pierre Neyret et Géraldine Benestar se sont attelés.
Ce livre nous emmène à la découverte des hautes
vallées du Pakistan, de ses multiples facettes, de Chitral
à Skardu en passant par Gilgit et le Gojal. C'est avec un regard
passionné et sensible que les auteurs égrainent les
vallées du Nord Cachemire et les peuples qui y habitent.
Rien de moins facile que de vouloir
partager avec le plus grand nombre la passion qui vous anime au plus
profond de vous-même, avec ses tripes et son cœur, mais force
est de constater que Pierre et Géraldine y parviennent à
grand renfort d'images sublimes et de récits exaltants. Des sujets
variés y sont abordés tels que l'histoire des premières
explorations, le polo, l'ascension du Nanga Parbat ou l'actualité
dramatique du conflit du Siachen ! De judicieuses introductions au début
de chaque chapitre permettent de cadrer plus précisément
les contextes historiques, géographiques et culturels indispensables
à la bonne compréhension du sujet. Les thèmes de
prédilection sont la transhumance de Shimshal et la traversée
Biafo Hispar en hivernale, deux sujets que Pierre en grand spécialiste
affectionne particulièrement. Le texte est illustré de
très belles photographies qui ne vous seront peut-être
pas inconnues si vous êtes lecteur des magazines de montagne.
Seul bémol, les cartes manquent là où les plus
érudits auraient probablement aimer situer davantage le décor
du propos.
Mais qu'à cela ne tienne,
" Hautes vallées du Pakistan " est à ma connaissance
le seul livre francophone consacré au Nord Cachemire aussi entreprenant,
l'un des seuls que je connaisse qui couvre ce sujet complexe avec autant
d'intégrité. Sachons répondre à l'appel
du cœur de Pierre et Géraldine en profitant de ce livre
qui occupera la meilleurs place dans votre bibliothèque de livres
de montagne !
Site web du livre : http://www.hautesvalleesdupakistan.com
A commander de suite sur le site de transboreal
Hautes vallées du pakistan
Transboréal, 23, rue Berthollet, Paris V
ISBN : 2913955-36-3
ou disponible dans toutes les bonnes librairies !
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