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(More customer reviews)Although it follows his award-winning work, Deep Play, it cannot be described as a sequel. The Totem Pole is an account of a singular event in the author's life: a climbing accident in Australia that resulted in brain damage and partial paralysis. His rehabilitation is marked by the frightening uncertainty of how much (or how little) progress he will make. Climbing had been the essence of his life, and now no one can tell him if and when he will ever climb again.For an early dropout from school (at his father's urging), Pritchard has an amazing writing talent. "Deep Play" showed signs of his ability, but "The Totem Pole" brings Pritchard's talent to full flower.The only disappointment in the book is the middle section, where he switches from his narrative to a transcription of a taped diary made during his rehabilitation. The transcripts are a noticeable dropoff in the writing, but help reveal the inspired level with which the book begins and ends.A standout in the genre of climbing books, Joe Simpson fans will not be disappointed.
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After winning the 1997 Boardman Tasker Award for hisfirst book, Deep Play, climber Paul Pritchard used the prize money tokick off a world climbing tour in Tasmania, on a slender sea stackcalled the Totem Pole. However, a chance rockfall inflicted suchterrible head injuries that Pritchard spent the next year in and outof hospitals, relearning basic thinking processes and musclemovements.This insightful, firsthand chronicle of the accident and its aftermathportrays the physical and emotional ordeal of Pritchard's recovery. Heweaves together accounts of earlier climbs, his changed relationshipswith family and friends and his girlfriend, Celia, and details aboutthe rescue operation itself. And with an unpitying voice, Pritcharddescribes his return to the accident scene with a film crew to watchsome of his friends complete the climb that changed his life.
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