{"id":40852,"date":"2024-04-16T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/?p=40852"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:24:25","slug":"relatos-de-altura-iii-el-angel-de-la-muerte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/en\/tall-tales-iii-the-angel-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Angel of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue with the publication of the micro-stories of the third edition of the competition:\u00a0High Altitude Stories<\/a>we let you enjoy with \"The Angel of Death<\/strong><\/strong>\"by Pablo Garc\u00eda Blanco.<\/em><\/p>

The mountain angel<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>

-by\u00a0Pablo Garc\u00eda Blanco<\/em>-<\/em><\/p>

There I was, lying naked, freezing cold, shivering unsteadily in an operating theatre surrounded by strangers, staring at me and anxiously waiting for the minute I asked for to be up before my favourite moment of the operation.<\/p>

I wanted to sleep peacefully enjoying another kind of icy cold and another kind of discomfort.<\/p>

I had had a month to make up my mind, but the fear of finding an answer I didn't like didn't let me choose.<\/p>

Or I chose to go to sleep to receive an explanation of a chronicle of a death foretold; March, with 100 km\/h gusts in the spittoon, just waiting to see him in my sleep to check what was going through his head that day, or I chose a quiet ascent of the Garmo Negro, listening to my crampons and ice axe on the snow, accompanied by the silence that gives us so much peace.<\/p>

I decided to befriend death and not fight it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We continue with the publication of the micro-stories of the third edition of the competition: Relatos de Altura,...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3022],"series":[],"class_list":["post-40852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura","tag-microrrelatos"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Relatos-de-altura-III-El-Angel-de-la-muerte.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caratula-Podcast-Maldita-Montana_1500x1500_72pp-p_.jpg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/en\/feed\/podcast\/maldita-montana","embedCode":"

El \u00e1ngel de la muerte<\/a><\/blockquote>