Document Type
Fiction
Publication Date
3-1-2016
Abstract
Un accident d’alpinisme s’est produit en 1920 près du mont Assiniboine dans les Rocheuses canadiennes. Le professeur Winthrop E. Stone fit une chute mortelle après s’être décordé sous le sommet du mont Eon ; sa femme Margaret, n’ayant pu compléter la descente, dut attendre les secours pendant sept jours, sans eau, nourriture ni vêtements chauds. Cette tragédie la marqua à vie, et elle n’en reparla jamais. Jon Whyte, écrivain de Banff, s’est inspiré de ces événements dans The Agony of Mrs. Stone, poème publié en 1977, qui sert de toile de fond à cette nouvelle. / A climbing accident took place in 1920 near Mount Assiniboine in the Canadian Rockies. Dr. Winthrop E. Stone unroped near the summit of Mount Eon, and fell to his death; his wife Margaret was not able to get off the mountain, and suffered without food, water or extra clothes for seven days before being rescued. She never spoke of that tragedy. Jon Whyte of Banff wrote a poem The Agony of Mrs. Stone, published in 1977, which is referenced in the short story.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Auld, Jerry,
and
Gilles Mossiere.
"Agonie | The Agony."
The Goose, vol. 14
,
no.
2
, article 42,
2016,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol14/iss2/42.
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