#13 of 2012: Peak by Roland Smith
It was as if I were also summiting the Everest, reading this took my breath away!! I have nothing but good words for this, even though some of its parts are questionable, like HOW THE HECK DID THAT 14-YEAR-OLD WITH LIMITED SKILLS AND LITTLE EXPERIENCE MANAGED TO GET TO THE TOP OF THE EARTH??? But as Zopa, the former Sherpa-turned-Buddhist monk, said in the story, not verbatim: Only the mountain will decide who’ll get to the top. That is also the case in fiction-writing, I guess, hahaha!
Yay!s
-Peak’s name, to begin with! He was named after ‘mountain peak’ by his mountain climber parents
-He (Peak) was a very engaging voice. I thought he sounded and thought like a 14-year-old, which was what I deemed important in such a “mature” setting like trekking the highest peak on earth!
-Peak into writing! He scribbled his summit experience in Moleskine notebooks!
-A look into the Tibetan and Nepalese cultures
-I really appreciate Roland Smith’s twist, in spite of it seemingly contrived, by the end because it showed a growth in Peak. (Although I wished Peak chose to be ~selfish and took the chance for himself.)
Boo!
-I AM NOW MULLING THE IDEA OF SUMMITING THE EVEREST AND THEREFORE HAVE BECOME DELUSIONAL
