CHUS LAGO
The Mirror Of Ice
The latest published book
DESNIVEL LITERATURE PRIZE 2020
PUBLISHER DESNIVEL – 2020
«All those instants of risk and extraordinary lucidity, of indelible emotion, light up in my head like ice crystals surprised by the light of dawn when I remember them. And that is, at the end of the path, the true treasure: the immortal capacity of reliving, over and over again, the last splendor of your voyage, the summit beyond the summit».
The Mirror of Ice is a story built from unforgettable and intimate moments of the explorer and mountaineer Chus Lago. Some have come from the childhood of the protagonist, others from the end of a lifetime of adventures. It’s the depth of a journey when you strip it of the challenge and extract the extraordinary.
In one moment you can go from being on top of the Pamirs and in the next paragraph on Baffin Island, in the skin of an Inuit or that of legendary polar explorers or even astronauts. This story is a walk through the ice of the north and south of the Earth, the lived ones and also the ice that others wrote about, passing through a Kathmandu cafe on the way to the high mountains.
PRESS
El Pais Semanal - Rosa Montero
14 February 2021
Telediario TVE
18 January 2021
Agencia EFE
15 January 2021
El Correo
7 February 2021
Cadena SER Programa Ser Aventureros
15 January 2021
Revista DESNIVEL Artículo de Jokin Azketa
February 2021
Diario de Pontevedra
9 January 2021
Canal 24h TVE
20 December 2020
Atlántico Diario
8 December 2020
Culturamas.es
20 November 2020
Culturamas.es
20 November 2020
A precious love story of ice, snow, and great white spaces… A caress for the spirit.
– Ramón Portilla
The Mirror of Ice is a book that wins hearts; it is a beautiful book. It is difficult to generate such a feeling when writing about oneself, but Chus pulls it off.