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Huida al Tíbet
Huida al Tibet by Endika Urtaran won the XIII (2011) Desnivel Prize for Literature. Jon is a Basque chef and renegade mountaineer who, after a family upset, escapes to Tibet. Dorje, a Tibetan monk with an interest in antique charts, finds a map made by French Jesuits in 1717 with a strange annotation. Carlotta is an unconventional, expert cartographer from Cuba who has spent her whole life running away from things. Sam is an American mountaineer and guide who lives life to the limit. Huida al Tibet tells the story of this cast of characters who, escaping from their lives, become immersed in a sinister adventure in the Himalayas. A true adventure novel with mountains, mysteries and superstitions, with love and friendship… where the mountain and Buddhist traditions do not exactly make things easy for the protagonists.