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bagiku utk mengenal seseorang mk bs diliat dr buku2 yg dibaca, teman2ny, dan saat pendakian.
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1. aku btanggungjawab ke tim, semua hrs selamat. apri sbg sweaper mlakukan ksalahan fatal. dia ga lapor ttg break yg diminta, qt tau, break tlalu lama akn mbwt qt down, males, nambah ngantuk. hitunganku, waktu break kalian b2 saat itu sdh lama. pdhl waktu sdh siang.
Daftar puncak-puncak tertinggi di Dunia
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- Everest, pegunungan Himalaya, Nepal/Tibet, 29,035 ft / 8,850 m.
- K2 (Godwin Austen), pegunungan Karakoram, Pakistan/China, 28,250 ft / 8,611 m.
- Kangchenjunga, pegunungan Himalaya, India/Nepal, 28,169 ft / 8,586 m.
- Lhotse I, pegunungan Himalaya, Nepal/Tibet, 27,940 ft / 8,516 m.
- Makalu I, pegunungan Himalaya, Nepal/Tibet, 27,766 ft / 8,463 m.
- Cho Oyu, pegunungan Himalaya, Nepal/Tibet, 26,906 ft / 8,201 m.
- Dhaulagiri, pegunungan Himalaya, Nepal, 26,795 ft / 8,167 m.
- Manaslu I, pegunungan Himalaya, Nepal, 26,781 ft / 8,163 m.
- Nanga Parbat, pegunungan Himalaya, Pakistan, 26,660 ft / 8,125 m.
Annapurna (book review)
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“Aku mendengar tentang rencana pendakian Annapurna … Itu membuatku menetapkan sasaran-sasaran tinggi bagiku sendiri dan mewujudkannya.”
–Ellen Ochoa, wanita Hispanik pertama yang menjadi astronaut
“Annapurna mengingatkan kami pada hal-hal menakjubkan yang bisa kami raih jika kami mampu mendorong diri kami sendiri dan saling mendukung untuk memunculkan kemampuan terbaik kami.”
–Ellen Ochoa, wanita Hispanik pertama yang menjadi astronaut
“Annapurna mengingatkan kami pada hal-hal menakjubkan yang bisa kami raih jika kami mampu mendorong diri kami sendiri dan saling mendukung untuk memunculkan kemampuan terbaik kami.”
Vertical Limit (movie review)
Release: 2000, Sony
Starring: Chris O’Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn
Director: Martin Campbell
MPAA Rating: [PG-13] violence, language, sexuality
Genre: Action
Hold your breath…
| Summary |
| A photographer (O’Donnell) ventures high into the mountains with a rescue team in a race against time to save his stranded sister (Tunney). |
Three Cups of Tea (book review)
| Penulis | : | GREG MORTENSON dan DAVID OLIVER RELIN |
| Jumlah Halaman | : | 666 hlm |
| Penerbit | : | Hikmah |
| Harga | : | Rp 89000.00 |
| ISBN | : | 978-979-114-185-7 |
In Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time , Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to promote peace with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote communities in central Asia. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.
In 1993 Mortenson was descending from his failed attempt to reach the peak of K2. Exhausted and disoriented, he wandered away from his group into the most desolate reaches of northern Pakistan. Alone, without food, water, or shelter he stumbled into an impoverished Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health.
While recovering he observed the village’s 84 children sitting outdoors, scratching their lessons in the dirt with sticks. The village was so poor that it could not afford the $1-a-day salary to hire a teacher. When he left the village, he promised that he would return to build them a school. From that rash, heartfelt promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time.
In an early effort to raise money he wrote letters to 580 celebrities, businessmen, and other prominent Americans. His only reply was a $100 check from NBC’s Tom Brokaw. Selling everything he owned, he still only raised $2,400. But his efforts changed when a group of elementary school children in River Falls, Wisconsin, donated $623.40 in pennies, who inspired adults to begin to take action. The 283 foot Braldu Bridge (pictured above) was completed in 1995 and the Korphe School (left) was completed in 1996. Since then, he’s established 78 schools. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived an armed kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, repeated death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. Yet his success speaks for itself.
Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson’s dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it’s proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world .’ -Tom Brokaw
“Greg Mortenson represents the best of America. He’s my hero. And after you read Three Cups of Tea , he’ll be your hero, too.” -U.S. Representative Mary Bono (R-Calif.)
“Three Cups of Tea is beautifully written. It is also a critically important book at this time in history. The governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan are both failing their students on a massive scale. The work Mortenson is doing, providing the poorest students with a balanced education, is making them much more difficult for the extremist madrassas to recruit.” -Ahmed Rashid, best-selling author of Taliban: Militant Islam and Oil in Central Asia and Descent Into Chaos.
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Into The Wild (book review)
Harga : Rp. 40,000.00 Rp. 34,000.00
Apa yang ada dalam benak seorang pemuda cerdas, sarjana berpredikat cum laude, ketika dia meninggalkan kehidupannya, keluarga yang mencintainya, dan mengasingkan diri ke alam liar? Mengapa dia menanggalkan kenyamanan peradaban dan semua atribut duniawi, dengan menyumbangkan semua tabungannya, membakar sisa uang tunai yang dia miliki, serta meninggalkan mobil kesayangannya di tengah hutan begitu saja?
Chritopher McCandless menjelma menjadi Alexander si Petualang Super — menggantungkan hidup pada alam sepenuhnya, mengabaikan risiko apa pun, dan mencoba bertahan di tengah kebekuan dan kesunyian Alaska, The Last Frontier, dataran kejam yang tak kenal belas kasihan. Akankah petualangan ini membawa dia pada makna kehidupan? Ataukah ini hanya kegialaan kompleks seorang pemuda yang nyentrik yang haus sensasi?
Civilization and Wilderness
Into the Wild. By Jon Krakauer. Villard. 207 pp. $22.
Reviewed by John P. Sisk (Professor of English Emeritus at Gonzaga University)
Jon Krakauer has written a thoroughly familiar American story. Its central figure, a recent college graduate named Chris McCandless, is spiritually ill at ease in his well-to-do East Coast bourgeois home and strikes out on his own, impelled by a need to make a new life for himself.
In a haphazard way he sees a good deal of the Southwest, canoes down the Grand Canyon to Mexico, wanders about the Pacific coast and into Montana. Along the way he works in an Italian restaurant in Las Vegas, fries hamburgers for McDonald’s, and works on a harvest crew. Determined to live authentically on the edge, he makes his way to Alaska where, provisioned with ten pounds of rice and a collection of his favorite paperbacks, he establishes himself north of Mt. McKinley in an abandoned Fairbanks city bus and proceeds to live off the land, supplementing his rice with moose meat, small game, and berries. In four months he is dead of starvation and the poisoning effect of wild potato seeds.
But what really makes this well- written book, which began as an article in Outside magazine, is the story of how Krakauer got it. He had the advantage of Chris’ letters to friends, as well as his journals and the many photographs that were found with the body in the abandoned bus. Interviews with Chris’ parents and sister and the people with whom he came into contact along the way have made possible a skillful reconstruction of the young man’s effort to reinvent his life.
Important too is the extent to which the author’s own experience in the Alaskan wild anticipated that of his subject. Over a twenty-year period he had gotten to know the country well as carpenter, fisherman, journalist, and occasionally as an imperilled mountain climber. He is in a position to recognize that Chris’ naive idealism was greatly responsible for the mistakes that led to his death, but he knows too that a dismissive off-the-rack psychoanalysis of the impulse to live dangerously in the wild can miss something important. That insight is not only good for the story itself but can encourage readers to confront issues we are inclined to sentimentalize.
One of the most conspicuous of these issues is the all too familiar identification of civilization as a perverse system of restrictions aimed at denying the individual an environment in which he can achieve the fulfillment that is his birthright. One of Chris’ friends recalls how often the young man’s face “would darken with anger and he’d fulminate about his parents or politicians or the endemic idiocy of mainstream American life.” For many of us this is the way sensitive young idealists ought to sound, and when they go boldly into the wilderness they ought to carry in their backpacks (as Chris did) Thoreau, Jack London, and Tolstoy. Doing so, they give comfort to the laggard rest of us, who are too inclined to live with our frustrations as comfortably as we can and too prudently content to experience wilderness as mere recreation.
Chris writes to a friend: “You must lose your inclination for a monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will first appear to you to be crazy.” Like so many of our antinomian culture heroes, including Huckleberry Finn and of course Thoreau, he makes us uneasily aware of our attachment to money and the enslaving comforts it makes possible. Early in his Western tour he burns $123 in a morally mandated act of civil disobedience. According to his mother, even as a teenager he had been a Tolstoyan who “believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil.” Indeed, his attitude towards money and its comforts sometimes suggests the ascesis that marked those athletes of God who, as Helen Waddell tells us so memorably in The Desert Fathers, were unable to resist the dangerous enchantments of the north African desert. Appropriately enough, then, when Krakauer considers the young man’s farewell picture of himself we get this: “Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.”
There is an aesthetic appeal in this image, as if it memorizes the poem of a life. When he writes to a friend, contrasting the deep peace of the wild with the discontent bred by cities, he claims that “It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.” On a piece of plywood inside the abandoned bus in which he died he identifies himself as “an extremist, an aesthetic voyager.” It is an identification that goes with his passion for aloneness and his avoidance of enduring human commitments, whether to family or to the friends who help him get to Alaska. His proper affiliate is an avant-garde artist like the impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, for whom Tahiti was a necessary escape from his family and the contaminating commitments of bourgeois Europe. Alaska was Chris’ Tahiti as Walden was Thoreau’s. There he found that reality itself resists the attempt to separate the aesthetic elements of life from the ethical and the mundane.
If such “aesthetic idealists” as Gauguin and Thoreau taught us the dangerous-and in Chris’ case deadly-separation of the aesthetic life, they also taught us to believe that only in the wild can a man be free from the aesthetic deadening of the civilized world. Young Chris found plenty of encouragement for his aesthetic bias against civilization. But after one hundred days in the wild, with death from starvation looming, he writes in his journal that he is “too weak to walk out, have literally been trapped in the wild.” At this point we survivors might say that he has discovered the hard way that the experience of the wild may only be an indulgence that civilization subsidizes as part of its ongoing effort to define and refine itself against the counter efforts of the wild to have it all.
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Miracle In The Andes (book review)
Penerbit : C Publishing
Pengarang : Nando Parrado
Harga : Rp. 49.500,00 Rp. 44.550,00
Jmlh hal. : 372 halaman
SINOPSIS BUKU – Miracle in the Andes : 72 Hari Tanpa Makanan Dan Perjalanan Pulang Yang Panjang Kisah Nyata Nando Parrado
Aku tidak ingat persis kata-kata yang diucapkan penyiar radio itu, tapi aku tidak akan pernah melupakan ketenangan nada bicaranya. Selama sepuluh hari pencarian yang sia-sia, ia berkata, para petugas Chile telah mengerahkan semua upaya untuk menemukan pesawat terbang sewaan dari Uruguay yang hilang di wilayah Andes pada 13 Oktober. Upaya pencarian di Andes sangat berbahaya, katanya, dan setelah selama ini berada di pegunungan yang sangat dingin, tidak ada lagi peluang bahwa seorang pun masih hidup.
“Suspendieron la busqueda!” teriak teman-temanku.
Mereka telah menghentikan pencarian ….
Miracle in the Andes mengisahkan perjuangan tim rugby Uruguay dalam mempertahankan diri di bekunya Pegunungan Andes. Nando Parrado dan timnya tengah melakukan perjalanan untuk pertandingan persahabatan di Argentina. Akibat cuaca buruk, pesawat carteran yang mereka tumpangi jatuh di tengah Andes. Dari 45 penumpang, hanya 32 yang masih hidup akibat jatuhnya Fairchild. Semakin lama, akibat luka serius dan longsoran salju, korban bertambah banyak hingga tinggal 16 survivors saja. Semangat mereka menjadi setipis udara Andes ketika mendengar dari radio Fairchild bahwa pencarian telah dihentikan. Dalam memoar ini, Nando menunjukkan bahwa besarnya cinta dan kegigihan dapat membuat miracle is achievable.
Sekarang, Nando Parrado adalah pengusaha disegani yang memiliki beberapa rumah produksi, biro iklan, perusahaan TV kabel, serta menjabat CEO di 16 perusahaan. Bersama keluarganya, Nando tinggal di Montevideo, Uruguay.
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“Sebuah pembuktian akan kekuatan evolusi dan kedahsyatan daya tahan manusia. Luar biasa!”
–Irish Times
“Sesudah membaca buku ini, Anda tidak akan melupakan beberapa pelajaran yang diajarkannya.”
–Jon Krakauer, penulis Into Thin Air dan Into the Wild
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5 cm (book review)
Penulis/Author: Donny Dhirgantoro
Penerbit/Publisher: Grasindo
Cetakan/Edition: 2005
Kategori/Category: Fiksi
Harga: Rp 54,500 (Disc: 10 %)
Sekali lagi, aku terkagum-kagum membaca karya anak bangsa. Jangan-jangan memang aku yang sudah terlalu lama merantau melebihi keinginan bathin?? Yang pasti, aku tahu, aku sangat normal karena selalu merindukan Jakarta dengan sejuta tempat makan super nikmatnya plus lampu-lampu jalanan dan suasana romantis Jakarta Kota di malam hari. Thanks Donny, for putting all my imaginations and desires into such a believable writing (lihat halaman 353). Silakan tidak percaya juga, karena aku pun merindukan macetnya kota Jakarta, waktu yang tidak pernah habis di caci maki tetapi waktu yang tepat pula untuk menganalisa sisi kanan-kiri mobil dan melihat wajah Jakarta dari balik kaca, sambil tune-in radio kesayangan, hahaha… I know I am never crazy for wanting to go home afterall.
Kelima sahabat (Arial, Genta, Riana, Zafran dan Ian) berteman sejak mereka masih memakai seragam putih abu-abu, masa-masa muda yang penuh cerita lucu, sedikit tolol maupun cerita sedih yang akan selalu dikenang sebagai hal paling manis dalam hidup. Persahabatan mereka sedemikian eratnya sehingga tak terasa mereka selalu bertemu dan bercengkerama hampir setiap hari, meskipun sebagian dari mereka sudah mulai bekerja. Untuk menghindari kejenuhan yang kronis, mereka sepakat untuk tidak berkomunikasi selama 3 bulan, waktu yang akan mereka pakai untuk melanjutkan hidup dan memungut apa yang sempat terbengkalai karena kegiatan dengan para sahabat. Arial mencari cintanya, Genta, Zafran dan Riana berusaha fokus pada pekerjaan mereka, sedangkan Ian melanjutkan kembali skripsinya yang sudah lama tertunda. Pertemuan setelah 3 bulan nanti akan mereka rayakan secara besar-besaran.
Genta yang punya ide. Tanpa memberitahukan secara detail, melalui sms Genta mengingatkan sahabat-sahabatnya tentang 3 bulan yang hampir habis dalam waktu seminggu diikuti sederetan permintaan bahwa pada hari H mereka harus bertemu di Stasiun Senen. Teman-temannya diminta pula membawa segudang peralatan. Genta berniat membawa para sahabatnya untuk melakukan sebuah perjalanan, perjalanan hati yang memperkaya diri mereka sebagai manusia, perjalanan yang menjadi momentum perubahan dalam diri mereka. Mereka akan mendaki gunung Semeru untuk mencapai puncak Mahameru tepat pada tanggal 17 Agustus.
Setengah dari buku 5 cm. bercerita tentang keseharian lima sahabat ini, dari sifat-sifat mereka yang berbeda satu dengan yang lain sampai dengan perilaku dan aktifitas mereka yang penuh canda tawa, diselingi cerita tentang permasalahan antar-sahabat. Setengahnya lagi, buku ini menuliskan petualangan kelima sahabat dalam mendaki gunung Semeru. Kalau temanku Gita.Fh pernah menulis dalam blognya bahwa ia sempat kepingin naik gunung sehabis membaca buku ini, aku malah semakin ingin pulang ke Jakarta supaya bisa jalan-jalan lagi di Kota jam 1 pagi, lalu mampir makan ikan baronang bakar di Pasar Baru sambil nguping lagu-lagunya Sade, Brand New Heavies, Frank Sinantra, Adam Ant, Lighthouse Family dll. yang lirik-liriknya ramai dikutip penulis dalam novel ini 
Seseorang yang sangat berarti untukku juga pernah bercerita tentang perjalanannya menuju Mahameru bertahun-tahun yang lalu. Puncak Mahameru telah mengubah hati banyak manusia karena keindahan, keagungan dan kemegahan alam raya yang senantiasa mengingatkan manusia kalau mereka sangat kecil dihadapan Sang Pencipta, seperti yang juga dirasakan dan hendak diceritakan penulis novel ini. Mendaki gunung memiliki segudang aturan tidak tertulis yang sebaiknya diikuti karena kesombongan dan ketidakdisiplinan bisa berakhir petaka di sana. Aku tidak kepingin mendaki gunung karena aku tahu aku tidak bisa, tapi keyakinan yang menggantung sejauh 5 cm dari kening menggugahku untuk lebih bersemangat untuk menggapai mimpi!
Mungkin karena sepantaran dengan masa-masa SMA penulis, buku ini benar-benar kunikmati. Gaya bertutur yang kadang sok lucu, sok tau, sok bijak lalu lirik-lirik lagu dan cara melihat dan mengungkapkan sesuatu terasa akrab bagiku (meskipun ada kemungkinan kalau angkatan lain pun memiliki cycle yang tidak jauh berbeda). Cerita tentang pergolakan bathin Ian di Bab 5 dan juga Ian yang jadi bulan-bulanan oleh junior kuliah, resepsionis kantor dll. buatku agak dipaksakan, begitu pula dengan forward cerita ke “sepuluh tahun kemudian” yang menurutku agak merusak jiwa buku dan kurang penting sebetulnya.
Sekedar saran, untuk para mahasiswa, mantan mahasiswa dan juga calon mahasiswa baik yang ber-demo karena mengusung cita-cita mulia, maupun yang ber-demo karena ingin masuk TV dan dianggap keren karena bisa ekstrem melawan pemerintah, novel ini mungkin bisa dijadikan bacaan di kala senggang ketika kalian sedang tidak sibuk ber-demo. Walaupun agak kocak, tapi sisi tidak kocaknya bisa menyumbang sedikit inspirasi loh 
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