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.
Valli Bergamasche - crags and modern climbing routes
By Redazione Published: 01/04/2009
{youtube}0GvhAQtSwJs{/youtube} In the Versante Sud publishing programme, 2009 brought the revised edition of the guidebook to the crags and modern climbing routes of the Valli Bergamasche. The authors examine four main areas: Val Imagna, Val…
The Bird - Jim Bridwell
By Redazione Published: 19/03/2009
The Bird, because climbing is like flying... this idea goes with us along the broad climbing lines of this demanding book, where the opening lines on the inside front cover leave no room for doubt:…
Mio padre Hermann Buhl (My Father Hermann Buhl) by Kriemhild Buhl
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 03/03/2009
Today it is no longer the time for books meant only for the mountains. We have reached a higher level of sensitivity. Or perhaps just a different one. What has become important, at least this…
Gary Hemming by Mirella Tenderini
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 13/09/2008
A historic book. The most classic and polished work on Hemming. Tenderini must have filed this text down countless times. To make it lean, without a single comma too many.It's a fairly slim book, but…
Quattro passi in Paradiso (A stroll in Paradise)
By Barbara Colaninno Published: 13/05/2008
30 routes in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National ParkA small guide, light and handy, it gathers 30 routes in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park (the doyen of Italian parks) in…
Into the Wild (Nelle terre estreme) - Jon Krakauer
By Redazione Published: 19/11/2007
In April 1992 Chris McCandless, a young man from a well-off family, set off alone into the vastness of Alaska, north of Mount McKinley. He had abandoned all his possessions and given his savings to…
Into Thin Air (Aria Sottile) by Jon Krakauer
By Redazione Published: 19/11/2007
Put this together with the feeling of muscular fatigue first and psychological fatigue after, and "the climb" becomes an experience more like...Why "Aria Sottile" (thin air)? Anyone who has been in the high mountains knows…
K2, Chogori - La Grande Montagna (The Great Mountain)
By Redazione Published: 19/11/2007
It's a mountain more dangerous and more difficult than Everest: it's K2, Chogori, as the locals call it, that is to say "the great mountain".The imposing rocky pyramid that stands out in the Karakorum is,…
Cometa sull'Annapurna (Comet over Annapurna) by Simone Moro
By Redazione Published: 19/11/2007
A moving story… We read Simone Moro's book with amazement. The book is the fruit of the tragic experience the author went through: falling 800 m, swept away by an avalanche on the slopes of…