Press Review & Curiosities
Reviews written on the basis of a genuine critical reading. We assessed the texts with a proper literary, technical and stylistic critique of mountain books.
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…
Salto Angel – Stephanie Bodet
By Redazione Published: 01/11/2011
Salto Angel, the highest waterfall in the world (979 metres), is in Venezuela, a place lost in the heart of Canaima National Park...These are places from the evening documentary. Places like these, for lazy Sunday…
Il grande libro della montagna (The great book of the mountains)
By Redazione Published: 30/10/2011
Going to the mountains. Yes, but how? How do you choose your gear? How do you plan a walk? How do you tie knots? How do you climb? How do you behave in an emergency?The…
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…
Scialpinismo in Tirolo (Ski mountaineering in Tyrol)
By Redazione Published: 13/10/2011
With this book a detailed window opens not only onto a vast ski mountaineering potential still little known to the Italian public, but also onto the society, the history and the most unusual features of…
Survive - I sopravvissuti - by John Patterson
By Redazione Published: 13/10/2011
"Ron and Debbie organise a holiday in Nepal to celebrate their fortieth birthday. Suddenly a terrible storm and a frightening avalanche crash down on the group of climbers they belong to. Trapped in the snow,…