Resultados para "La tempestad" en Aire libre y naturaleza

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

Sette dei più forti alpinisti sono impegnati sul Pilone Centrale del Frêney al Monte Bianco, l'ultimo grande "problema" delle Alpi. Da giorni, gli italiani guidati da Walter Bonatti e i francesi da Pierre Mazeaud si trovano in alto sulla parete. Lampi, vento, neve, temperature a venti sotto zero bloccano la salita. Sembra che resistere nella speranza dell'arrivo del sereno sia l'unica soluzione. Ma la tempesta non si placa. E quando Bonatti decide di tentare una discesa disperata, è ormai troppo tardi.

When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her extraordinary story. Rock and Tempest contains astonishing first-person accounts of terror and uncertainty as well as courage and survival. It is fascinating and moving, and absolutely essential listening.

In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.