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![]() ![]() He may never have known his father, the great Josef Matt who died on an expedition to summit the Citadel (aka the Matterhorn), the last great unconquered peak in Switzerland, but he inherited his spirit. They want him far away from the dangerous mountains that have taken too many men from their town, his own father included.īut Rudi is a mountaineer in his heart, and escapes the kitchen to climb whenever he can. He is, his mother and uncle have decided, to be a hotelier and to train in Zurich after getting experience at home. Slight and cherubic, Rudi is nothing like the bulk of the town’s hearty men, who make their livings as guides for mountain-climbing tourists. Set in 1865 in the fictional town of Kurtal (aka Zermatt), we meet our hero, sixteen-year-old Rudi Matt, as a disgruntled dishwasher at the town’s best hotel. ![]() The 1954 club has arrived! It was a year full of fantastic children’s historical novels – The Eagle of the Ninth! Knight Crusader! – but I’m kicking the week off with a slightly more obscure choice: Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman, an adventure tale inspired by the first ascent of the Matterhorn. ![]()
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