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It is an artificial mountain, a picture corresponding rather with the exaggerated effect it produces on the astonished mind of the artist, than with the real form of the mountain. Marlantes is a graduate of yale university and a rhodes scholar. Dec 05, 2010 unguided climb of the matterhorn via hornli ridge duration. As a war novel, the text contains numerous antagonists that the protagonist. The name matterhorn means roughly the peak in the meadows. Remembering the triumph and tragedy atop the matterhorn history. Karl marlantes debut novel, 30 years in the making, follows waino mellas, a young ivy league student sent to vietnam to lead a platoon. Its one of the worlds most famous and iconic mountains, despite being neither the highest, nor the most difficult to climb.
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