Mountain Literature
"Tu non conosci Tiziano..." (You don't know Tiziano) by Massimo Marcheggiani
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
The fact that I climbed a lot with him and shared long periods with him in very difficult situations, as a climb in Patagonia or ...The book… the one I wrote, is not and does not…
Rotti e Stracciati - Aria di Roma sulle cime
By Redazione Published: 30/05/2012
We want, however, to start from our own feelings to give our further (perhaps superfluous) contribution and comment on this book.For those who dream of mountaineering while living and working in Rome, “Rotti e Stracciati”…
Psycho Vertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
By Redazione Published: 09/05/2012
Good, good, good.... what more can you say about a book that is well written, and even better thought out? But above all written in a gripping way, a quality, this last one, that if…
Magnificat by Gianni Vattimo
By Redazione Published: 15/02/2012
It is easy to link philosophy, or philosophical enquiry, to the “mountain”; often whoever goes into the mountains is in himself already making some kind of search for the “meaning” of his own existence.In his…
...now I know Tiziano too...
By Redazione Published: 22/12/2011
I who know the mountains from photos, maps, hiking routes, the odd rock face to climb... I who have aped real mountaineering...... I who don't set off unless the weather is good, I who moan…
Paul Pritchard - A mountaineer on Her Majesty's payroll
By Redazione Published: 16/10/2011
Born at the top of a quarry and a teenager at a time when work in the United Kingdom was scarce, Paul Pritchard is the unemployed climber par excellence, the one who lived for climbing,…
The Eiger Obsession - John Harlin Jr.
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 16/10/2011
One is reminded of what Elio Vittorini said to Cesare Pavese when he received Paesi Tuoi from him. It was June 1941 and Vittorini told Einaudi’s workshop man that three or four books like this…
La via dei lupi (The Way of the Wolves) by Carlo Grande
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 13/10/2011
Perhaps not everyone knows that Carlo Grande thinks his places through before writing about them. Then he lives them in person. And then he feeds on them again until he feels them ringing inside himself.The…
Un posto in cielo by Anatolij Bukreev
By Redazione Published: 16/08/2011
What strikes you most in this book is precisely its 'diary' format. Bukreev, you can feel it, throughout all its pages cannot be anything but sincere.The diaries of an unwitting heroA posthumous book edited by…