Escape from Kilimanjaro (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Crawling the last few yards to the fork, Bob studied the small fire the soldiers had started to heat the pot of stew that would be their supper. No matter what angle he took, Bob could not find a body anywhere near the fire or in the small opening the...
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Crawling the last few yards to the fork, Bob studied the small fire the soldiers had started to heat the pot of stew that would be their supper. No matter what angle he took, Bob could not find a body anywhere near the fire or in the small opening the soldiers were huddled in. There was no deep drop-off for another quarter mile, so they couldn't have thrown her body over.Did she make it to the fork before the first group of soldiers made it there and decide to take her chances on up the trail? Moving on his belly, Bob worked his way through the few trees lining the left side of the trail, and in the darkness he smelled the sweat and blood of the soldier a split second before his hand slightly brushed the soldier's sticky blood pooling on the ground. Freezing his hand and body in place, Bob swung his eyes slowly from left to right and back again until he could make out the figure of the soldier and see the large gaping wound in his neck. Another smell suddenly filled his nose and his heart sank; the perfume Kelly wore filled his senses. Moving only his eyes, he tried to pierce the darkness where he knew his daughter had to be but he could not find her. Finally he swept his eyes to the very fringe of the light coming from their fire. He knew if he looked directly at the fire his night vision would be obliterated for at least sixty seconds, and sixty seconds could be the difference between life and death. Bob found nothing on the right side of the fire and slowly moved down and back up to the left of the fire. That was when he saw her!
Autoren-Porträt von Chick Lung
This book began to germinate as the 67-year-old author spent four grueling days and nights on Kilimanjaro as the snow and wind swirled around his half frozen body. Although only one out of four people that start the Kilimanjaro climb reach the summit the author trained for six solid months and was determined to be one of the climbers that reached the peak and looked out over the beautiful vista below. Unfortunately the author made one critical mistake; he consumed far less water than instructed by the guide throughout the first three days of his climb. The tap on his shoulder came at the beginning of the fourth day as he tried to put on wet socks instead of the dry ones lying by his pack. Dehydrated and disoriented, he was not prepared for the coming climb. The tap was gentle but firm as his guide informed him that the gods had spoken; he was not to walk among those esteemed few who had reached the summit of Kilimanjaro. The names and places in this book set on and around Mt. Kilimanjaro are as real as the gentle people living in the forest surrounding their sacred mountain. Sadly, the small bands of savage boy soldiers are also real. Their leader at the very beginning of Africa's unthinkable, genocidal carnage was Charles Taylor, now on trial for war crimes at the International Court of Tribunal in Holland.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chick Lung
- 2009, 1 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1467853860
- ISBN-13: 9781467853866
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2009
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