In front, reverse! – release
With the bad faith that characterizes him, Bruno Léandri, a moustache prolix and touches everything, had recently enchanted us with Two little books relating his travel memories (Romania of Ceausescu, Tunisia of Bourguiba or Vietnam and China in Bidochon mode on vacation). He is recurrent today with this Ultimate a failed hike guidewhere his verb and biting irony make a spell for all the walkers on the planet; Whether Sunday walkers in flip -flops and Bermuda, honest hikers or trek pros deflected by podometers, oxymeters and other technos toy.
Promising in one of the book « Twenty tips for spoiling your vacation in any season »he chores his memories of the Corsican trails, from the depths of the Argentine pampa or the Pyrenees (in stormy time) …
Difficulties to follow without getting a path marked out of Cairns; Malignity of birds in front of his goal (which leads him to state this hiking advice: « If on the way you cross animals, do not take a photo: launcher of the stones »); Philosophical (almost serious) reflections on the sense of walking, surcourism and the passing time; odoriferous findings on the real composition of the sheepfold soil; or story of the hallucinatory trips of Jean-Paul Sartre chased by lobsters in Castelnau-de-Montmiral (authentic)… So many stories encouraging this other hike advice: precaution to take for GR route classified with high difficulty, elevation high amplitude, random continuity: « Don’t go! »
Even if the author’s dishonest intellectual is no longer to be proven, we will confirm in passing the veracity of the number of adventures narrated in the book: how many times have you taken simple, well-cleared paths, without any bifurcation (or even bordered by low walls) where the paint beacons succeeded every ten meters; For all of a sudden, while the ground became difficult and the possibilities of branching and false roads and multiplied, to be without any signaling at the round!
To read urgently and take a hike. If only to light the fire, slide under his clothes in order to serve as an insulating layer or stall a stove on an unequal floor …
Ultimate a failed hike guideby Bruno Léandri, Éditions du Trésor, 204 pp., 20 euros.
