"Coming back up the ice was amazing," Ms Hilder said. It was a special experience for the keen climbers. "In this case, it was more clear, which has got fewer particulates in it which makes it a lot safer." "The colour of the ice will tell you if there's too much air within that ice that you're climbing so anything that's white is fright, and if it's blue it's glue." "You really need to get this golden temperature, not just at the time you're there but as it forms and the way that you can judge its quality is generally off its colour," he said. Mr Kapudija, a paramedic, said icy conditions had to be just right to climb the waterfalls. In other countries, ice climbing is a sport in which athletes climb vertical ice formations, including frozen waterfalls or cliffs covered with ice. Also when she slipped Selda some spending money that they wouldn't speak of.The experienced climbers used specialist gear to tackle the climbs. The highlight of this book was definitely the simple action of Sevgi Hanim being at the train station to be with Selda when she heard of the accident at the train station, defying her husband in and telling him when she got home (after he informed her that there was no supper) that supper would be late. The three of them frustrated and angered. Also when I really enjoyed this book despite it almost made me rage quit over the personalities and the actions of both the parents and the grandmother. I really enjoyed this book despite it almost made me rage quit over the personalities and the actions of both the parents and the grandmother. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. Her story resonated within my own experiences, even though both my origin and destination country was different Selda's perspective is so convincing that I would not have been surprised if the author herself immigrated from Turkey as a child.more It's about Selda's experience of immigrating from Turkey to Switzerland as a child about the struggles of the language barrier, cultural differences, complicated familial relationships, the perils of illegal immigration, adapting and finding a place in the new and strange environment. Her story resonated within my own experiences, eve I read this in one sitting and wasn't disappointed - true, there is no big cliffhanger or thrilling action or plot twists, but that's not what this book is about. I read this in one sitting and wasn't disappointed - true, there is no big cliffhanger or thrilling action or plot twists, but that's not what this book is about. Cultural, social and class divide, sexism, drug addiction and illegal immigration in Europe all get a mention and in a non cuddly non patronising way. Unlike many childrens books it is not filled with noses on kittens or brown paper packages tied up with string. Instead the book deals eloquently with the transcultural trials and tribulations faced by Selda and her family, Turkish gastarbeiters newly arrived in Switzerland. Suckered in by the Turkish author i didn't actually stop to check the blurb or subject matter, indicating what a rash, flagrant and compulsive purchaser of books I really am.įrozen waterfalls feature infrequently so those of a National Geographic turn of mind will be disappointed. There's nothing wrong with YA but I'm officially an OA (old adult) so I never imagine i will find anything to sweeten my bitter old book palette. I'm not a frequent visitor to the domain of Young Adult so this was a departure from the norm. Frozen waterfalls feature infreque This is YA. Suckered in by the Turkish author i didn't actually stop to check the blurb or subject matter, indicating what a rash, flagrant and compulsive purchaser of books I really am.
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