![]() ![]() The man asks Rudi to go for help, but Rudi knows that they would not be back by nightfall. He finds that a man is trapped on a ledge about twenty feet down. He is walking towards the mostly unused base camp for the Citadel when he hears a voice coming out of a fissure. He knows he is risking his mother's wrath by exploring high up on the slopes. Rudi passes his father's grave he believes none of the myths about the Citadel. Rudi's own father died on its slopes just fifteen years earlier while trying to climb it. ![]() Will he succeed?Īs the story begins, Rudi sneaks out of his job in the hotel kitchen to climb up to the base of the Citadel, a treacherous mountain that looms over his village of Kurtal. Rudi goes up against his family and has to fight some inner demons up on the treacherous slopes. Ignoring this, Rudi is out on a glacier when he saves the life of a famous climber and gains an ally in his quest to climb the Citadel. Living in a small Swiss mountain village, he is constantly reminded of his "legacy." Unfortunately, Rudi's mother and uncle want him to have nothing to do with his father's occupation and have forbidden Rudi from climbing. Rudi Matt is a sixteen-year-old boy who desperately wants to climb the Citadel - the mountain that his father died on fifteen years earlier. ![]()
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