Новинки Нормана Оллестада

Set in the aftermath of a harrowing plane crash, this is the true story of one young boy’s fight for survival in nature’s most treacherous conditions.Eleven-year-old Norman Ollestad was a gifted skier. After winning the 1979 Southern California Slalom Skiing Championship, his father chartered a small plane to fly Norman home, so that his son could collect his trophy and train with his team.Moments later the Cessna, engulfed in a blizzard, crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains and was left suspended at 8,000 feet. Norman's father, his coach and his hero, was dead.Climbing out of the wreckage, young Norman begins a gruelling descent, thousands of feet down an icy mountain. Blinded by heavy snow and faced with a raging wind and below-freezing temperatures, he attempts to guide his father's injured girlfriend to safety. Kept alive by sheer will, Norman summons everything his father taught him about determination and courage to save his own life.Powerful, inspiring and utterly compelling, this is a unique and unforgettable memoir.

В феврале 1979 года все газеты пестрели заголовками "Уроки отца помогли мне выжить". Речь шла о страшной авиакатастрофе, случившейся в Калифорнийских горах на высоте более двух километров. Единственный выживший - 11-летний мальчик Оллестад. На вопрос, как ему удалось в одиночку спуститься с опаснейшего ледяного склона и спастись, он ответил, что выживать его научил отец. Спустя 30 лет Норман написал великолепную книгу о том страшном дне и о своем отце, любителе острых ощущений - "человеке с солнечным светом в глазах", который научил сына не просто жить, а брать от жизни все.

В феврале 1979 года все газеты пестрели заголовками «Уроки отца помогли мне выжить». Речь шла о страшной авиакатастрофе, случившейся в Калифорнийских горах на высоте более двух километров. Единственный выживший – 11-летний мальчик Оллестад. На вопрос, как ему удалось в одиночку спуститься с опаснейшего ледяного склона и спастись, он ответил, что выживать его научил отец. Спустя 30 лет Норман написал великолепную книгу о том страшном дне и о своем отце, любителе острых ощущений — «человеке с солнечным светом в глазах», который научил сына не просто жить, а брать от жизни все.

Ollestad, 41, was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the father he idolized. Resentful of a childhood lost to his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, young Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. Set in Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, the book captures the earthy surf culture of Southern California; the boy’s conflicted feelings for his magnetic father; and the exhilarating tests of skill in the surf and snow that prepared young Norman to become a fearless surfer and ski champion--which ultimately saved his life.

In February 1979, just as he was reaping the rewards of his training, a chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father’s girlfriend, and the pilot, crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and was suspended at eight thousand feet, engulfed in a blizzard. Norman’s father, his coach and hero, was dead, and the 11-year old Ollestad had to descend the mountain alone and grief-stricken, through snow and ice, without any gear.

Stunningly, the boy defied the elements and put his father’s passionate lessons to work. As he told the LA Times after his ordeal, “My dad told me never to give up.”