I'm reading Gores's COME MORNING. I had heard that there were
climbing scenes in it. Cool to find out that I had done one
of them, the 1000 foot Royal Arches route. I don't much care
if fictional streets don't match the real city's, and it
didn't bother me that Gores borrowed El Cap's famous pendulum
and tacked it onto the end of the Royal Arches, but on the
other hand I thought that Gores did a mediocre job of tapping
the literary significance that he could have got out of the
climb. He chose to emphasize the blissful panoramic view from
the top instead of the metaphor of the rope uniting the
climbers. Both might be cliche, but it seems to me the latter
would have far better suited his purpose. And never once does
he mention the fact that Louise is protecting Runyan by
belaying him, a significance that goes beyond the mere
mechanics of climbing. Altogether a fairly ineffective use of
climbing.
Trevanian did a lot better with THE EIGER SANCTION, and the
little-known climbing classic, Salter's SOLO FACES, is even
better.
miker
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