In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot. He believed it was the only way his close friend, film historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense sincerity. This diary is dotted with a pastiche of rants about the extreme cold and utter loneliness, notes on Herzog's films and travels, poetic descriptions of the snowy countryside, and personal philosophizing. What is most remarkable is that the reading of the book is in continuity with the experience of watching his films; it's as if, through this walk, we witness the process in which images are born. Although he received a literary award for it, this introspective masterpiece has lingered out of print since 1979. Beautifully designed and emotionally impressive, Of Walking in Ice is the first in a color-coded series of remarkable yet long-forgotten titles being republished by Free Association.

沃纳·赫尔佐格 Werner Herzog（1942 -）。享誉国际的新德国电影大师之一,与文 德 斯（Wim Wenders）、法斯宾德（Rainer Werner Fassbinder）齐名。赫尔佐格1942年出生于慕尼黑,1962年起开始制作、拍摄电影与短片,1 968年他的第一部长片《生命的讯息》 （Signs of Life）获柏林影展银熊奖；1972年《天谴》 （Aguirre,the Wrath of God）被英国《视与听》杂志评为年度十大佳片之首,他也成为国际影坛最受瞩目的德国青年导演；1974年《人人为自己,上帝反众人》（The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser）获戛纳电影节评审团大奖；1982年又有 《陆上行舟》（Fitzcarraldo）获戛纳电影节最佳导演奖。 他同时还拍摄了大量深具影响力的纪录片,包括获奖无数的《灰熊人》（Grizzly Man）、《白钻石》（The White Diamond）、《在世界尽头相遇》（Encounters at the End of the World）、《凝视深渊》（Into the Abyss）、《忘梦洞》 （Cave of Forgotten Dreams）等片。

赫尔佐格的作品大多以狂热、孤独的狂想者为主人公,强调人力与天意的对抗,很多作品有寓言性质。

洛特·艾斯纳 Lotte Eisner（1896-1983）,知名影评人、电影史学家,1896年出生在柏林。1933年纳粹政权上台后艾斯纳逃往法国, 德军占领法国后她在集中营度过了一段时间。 1945 年起,艾斯纳担任法国电影资料馆档案管理长一职,直到1975年退休。战争期间她从德军和犹太商人手中走私大量德国电影拷贝并保护起来,在法国电影资料馆一角复制了二十年代的柏林。她是最早肯定并积极推介“新德国电影”的影评人,被称为“新德国电影 之母”。1983 年,艾斯纳去世,终生未婚,也没有子嗣。 次年文德斯将《德州·巴黎》（Paris, Texas）题献给她,赫尔佐格亦将电影《人人为自己,上帝反众人》献给她。