Impresionante el relato de Álex Corpas como impresionante es la vía que escalaron en el Totem Pole en Tasmania. Preciosas las fotos que hizo su compañera María José para que ahora podamos disfrutar de ellas.
Versión Inglesa al final del artículo. English version at the end of the entry
Dicen que el
secreto histórico de la estética, si existe, sea tal vez la facultad de
transmitirnos algo, de forma imperecedera. La estética es o puede ser
cambiante, sus valores y apreciaciones son subjetivas y varían según la
percepción del momento y el contexto histórico del individuo, evolucionan según
el conocimiento. Está presente en todas las facetas de nuestra vida cotidiana,
queremos aquello que nos atrae. Y está claro que el concepto de belleza del
Renacimiento no es el de las escuálidas modelos que desfilan hoy en Paris.No
creo que a Monet entendiera muchas de las obras que hoy se exponen en los
museos de arte contemporáneo.
Alex calentando las manos y estudiando la via |
Álex en acción |
Conversando al calor de un fuego cerca
de la bahía de Fortescue, el tipo que había escalado delante de nosotros
alababa a mi compañera por lo que había hecho y le preguntaba: - ¿ al menos
supongo que entiendes lo que es el Tótem Pole para un escalador?. Comprendí que
era simplemente un capricho estético, un chute demasiado corto para producir
una prolongada sensación de éxtasis. Lo habíamos escalado y qué, era como
siempre. Efímero.
INFO.FICHA TÉCNICA.
Bonita perspectiva del Totem |
- A la derecha sale la Free Route , con un
largo de travesía que requiere algunas chapas recuperables. Este largo circunda
todo el Tótem ( unos cuatro metros de diámetro) hasta alcanzar la repisa que
nos deja directamente debajo del segundo largo de la Free Route ). El único
inconveniente de este largo es que está más expuesto a las olas, por lo que es
más difícil encontrarlo en condiciones de escalada y además al escalar en
travesía hay que tener cuidado con la cuerda fija que llevábamos colgada en el
arnés y que ya está fijada al otro extremo de la tirolina, punto desde el que
rapelamos.
La otra opción es escalar el primer
largo de la ruta española de los Gallegos. Un largo de 7a que va directo a la
repisa.
Material: 14 cintas express.
Un juego de fisureros.
Un juego de friends hasta el 1 y un
juego microfriends.Es posible escalar con cuerda simple.
Aproximación: 1h y 30m desde el
camping.
Álex Corpas
Álex Corpas
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ENGLISH VERSION/ VERSION INGLESA
AN AESTHETICS WHIM.
The famous picture of the Totem Pole, is recognized by
anyone who frequents the walls, anyone who has observed through a magazine or a
poster advertising will gaze, no doubt, the image of this monolith of granite
carved by the time, in the orography of the Tasmania´s south coast, beyond
the Antartic bondaries. Interesting
for geologists, attractive for climbers
to be just perfect. It is an icon, a symbol and better-known Tasmanian climbing
route, not difficult but beautiful. No wonder that the Spanish route of the
Gallego brothers, true collectors scenic routes, is there. His distinctive
silhouette is fixed in your memory, how
it´s fixed any body or essence to awaken interest in our spirit. How you can
fix the image of a succulent delicatessen, a vertical crack or a woman who
seduced us with his gaze across of the bar. It´s said, the love goes through
the eyes. I mean, it always enters through the eyes and goes we don´t know
where. But, Is it not true that usually we prefer a "filet Minong" to
canned meatballs?. There are as many tastes as faces in this planet, but human
nature doesn´t fail.
It´s said, the secret history of aesthetics, is
perhaps the power to convey something so timeless. The aesthetic is or may be
changing, its values and judgments are subjective and changes as the perception
of time and the historical context of the individual, it evolves according to
knowledge. It is present in all facets of our daily lives; we want what
attracts us. And it is clear that the concept of beauty during Renaissance
doesn´t look like the skinny models who walk around fashion parade in Paris.I
don´t think that Monet understood many of the artworks which are exhibited in
museums of contemporary art, actually.
Many of the artistic productions move around
aesthetic to natural similarities. The similarity to this free-standing of
70 meters with Totem Poles is clear and justifies its name. Those monumental sculptures carved from large trees, mostly Western Red Cedar, by cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, were used to represent families
legend or lineages. It was working art.
The meanings of aesthetics evolve but it´s not
the case of the Totem. The great stone monoliths have been, natural reasons of
worship sacred or shamanic symbols for, a long time. We still have the same
atavistic attraction for the sublime, the
beautiful, the magnanimous; like the Maya and the Egyptians. And now in
our time someone climb up it, like climbing the Keops´pyramid , just to
overcome a before feeling stimulated by some... I don´t know what.
I have some friend who would call me snobby rich kid
for coming to Tasmania to climb two pith of rock, in a route which is not
technically interesting if you compare it with another routes, and for sure no
ethical, if we think about the amount of fuel
burned to get here from Europe. But, it´s aesthetic and so much
beautiful. One of the geological wonders of the earth, an unsolved mysteries
which the gods created at will after one night out at the dawn of the times. Then,
they plagued these cliffs of white sharks and seals fur and beat it with a
shifting wind straight from the Antarctic south to form a very attractive
atmosphere for addict persons to get where they are not called. So seduction,
it is true that it seduces you.
The first time, I was strongly seduced by Tótem
Pole was in a bathroom´s friend. I used to piss with my face to the wall, and I
frequented that room with enough frequently to realize that this granite column
was in Tasmania. Too far, too exotic, too illusory to meet an aesthetic whim. Years
later, the fate would have made possible this climbing, accompanied by my
partner who knew the Totem by frequenting that same bathroom and by a Spanish
climber who I had located on Facebook
and with who I had once climbed a few years ago. The illusion of Climbing the
Totem lasted only two pitchs, but it was an intense feeling in a wild place
after some months of lethargy. When I landed back on the ledge, my mate
Antoñanzas was waiting for me with a warm hug and my parnet in the room, in
bed, in the bathroom and now, on several pitchs of climbing, was waiting with
another one. She had been waiting for hours, waving from the ledge on the other
side of the cliff, in a day which the wind whipped hard and in which any women
in fertile state would have prefered to be in bed. And everything to get some
stunning snapshots, which -of course- we wanted to have like crazy climbers.
Talking to the heat of a fire close to Fortescue Bay,
the guy who had climbed ahead of us praising my partner for what she had done
and asked her - At least I supousse you understand what the Totem Pole is for a
climber ?. I realized it was simply an aesthetic whim, a shot too short to
produce a prolonged feeling of ecstasy. We had climbed, it was like always. Ephemeral.
2 comentarios:
Solo una cosilla y es que la foto ha debido de colarse por ahí no sabemos cómo, solo decios que la primera que aparece no es una foto del Totem Pole sino del The Moai que también está en Tasmania, las demás si que son del Totem.
Nada más, que los disfrutéis. (Mariajo)
Muchas gracias Mariajo, tomamos nota y cambiamos la foto para no inducir a error. Un saludo y gracias por tus magníficas fotos ;-)
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