Kingdoms of the Wall
Book description
Chosen to lead the forty men and women from the village of Jespodar in their annual quest to scale the Wall, a monstrous assemblage of cliffs, Poilar Crookleg is finally able to realize his lifelong dream
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I first read this book when my baby son was teething. I cradled him in my arms, walked around, and kept reading, unwilling to put it down. Since then, I have reread it several times. The goal of fantasy and science fiction is to transport you into a different world, and Silverberg, a veteran SF writer, knows how to do just that.
The impossible mountain of the book, the Wall, so tall and so sheer that nobody who tries to climb it comes back unchanged (or comes back at all), has loomed in my imagination ever since. I want to…
From Elana's list on mountain climbing for non-climbers.
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