2023/046: Echo — Thomas Olde Heuvelt (translated by Moshe Gilula)

2023/046: Echo — Thomas Olde Heuvelt (translated by Moshe Gilula)

"...Satellite images make it look like the glacier that used to flow through it has mostly melted away, but he says that doesn’t tally with what it looks like up there, either. He says no one knows exactly how big the valley really is. Bigger than assumed, in any case. And the mountain, it’s higher.” “Most of the time,” Cécile added. [p.179]

Nick Grevers, travel writer and mountaineer, has survived a terrible accident on the Maudit, a little-climbed peak in the Swiss Alps. His climbing partner Augustin is missing, and Nick's face is so badly injured that he can't speak, can't tell anyone about what really happened up there. He claims, via a scribbled note, that he can't remember: but he remembers everything. And his nurse passes another note to Nick's boyfriend Sam: 'Don’t believe them. It wasn’t an accident.'

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