A Drop of Water. For Bonatti, the trick [after K2] is to find new ways to climb the familiar old hills. And he had a really novel idea for the Matterhorn: a "direttissima" assault, straight up the mountain's ice-coated, practically vertical north wall, a climb that had been tried (without success) only once before—in the summer. It was, shuddered a Swiss guide, "the route that a drop of water would follow." Here.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Walter Bonatti, RiP
A Drop of Water. For Bonatti, the trick [after K2] is to find new ways to climb the familiar old hills. And he had a really novel idea for the Matterhorn: a "direttissima" assault, straight up the mountain's ice-coated, practically vertical north wall, a climb that had been tried (without success) only once before—in the summer. It was, shuddered a Swiss guide, "the route that a drop of water would follow." Here.
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