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.
Touching the Void (La morte sospesa)
By Redazione Published: 13/10/2011
Gripping and true like no other... It doesn't often happen that you come out of the cinema glad you paid for the ticket.Most of the time you find you've wasted an evening on some Hollywood…
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…
Giorni di Ghiaccio (Days of ice) - Marco Confortola
By Redazione Published: 02/08/2011
It was lost between a macrobiotic cookbook and an American crime thriller. I struggled to recognise it and for some time I didn't even notice it. Then one day Marco's gaze... Marco Confortola's book was…
Mountain biking in Lombardy and Canton Ticino
By Redazione Published: 15/06/2011
A detailed and complete mountain bike guide that fully covers the north-western part of Lombardy, from Lake Maggiore to Lake Como, and southern Canton Ticino. A vast and ever-changing area, stretching from the mountain slopes…
Il vento fa il suo giro (The Wind Blows Round) - Giorgio Diritti
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 20/05/2011
If a film manages to have the sweeping force of a book. Usually the opposite happens. A film is made from a book, almost as if it were a natural, organic rib taken from it.…
La Zampata dell'Orso by Giancarlo Ferron
By Redazione Published: 06/05/2011
And he has done it by describing to us at close quarters an animal that is usually shy and surly. Before talking about the writer, though, we must talk about the man “Giancarlo”. We got…
Guardiano di stelle e di vacche (Keeper of Stars and Cows) - Andrea Nicolussi Golo
By Redazione Published: 30/08/2010
The calling card of this beautiful book is certainly the introduction written by the very well-known Mario Rigoni Stern.A collection of stories this intense can only be the fruit of research, study, work and probably…
The Alps – a natural heritage to protect
By Redazione Published: 04/08/2010
...my compulsive search for everything that is “mountain” leads me among the shelves of documentary films and I find a DVD devoted to the mountains...“Le Alpi”, a DVD recommended by “LIFE GATE people planet profit”.…