Reflections and Thoughts...
Women and the mountains
By Redazione Published: 06/02/2013
On the roads of mountaineering, ski touring and sport climbing we meet far too rarely women and girls who practise these disciplines with passion. More often, instead, we meet some willing member of the fair…
Share the mountains
By Redazione Published: 08/01/2013
And now that I've caught your attention... please, at least once, stop and read this silly project... The story I find myself at Campo Imperatore and run into an old acquaintance made on the paths…
Collecting the summits of the Apennines
By Redazione Published: 18/12/2012
A bit of history....Collecting summits in the Apennines is an activity that is by now not all that recent. Many years have passed since the first website appeared, built on a third-level domain. The Club…
"Risk" and "danger" in the mountains...
By Redazione Published: 04/01/2012
An attempt at a theory of "risk" in the mountains.Exploring questions of "meaning" when we talk about danger in the mountains.I can't help chasing questions of meaning. My search, the one that began back in…
The crosses I carry inside me
By Redazione Published: 01/08/2011
I am not a great man of faith. Not infrequently, in the grip of despondency over everyday problems, I have asked myself hard questions about the true nature of God.But the questions and the doubts…
Aphorisms to remember
By Redazione Published: 11/05/2011
These are not absolutist “dogmas”, they are simply the fruit of my life experiences.In this short collection of aphorisms and thoughts, born from the reflection that comes from walking in the mountains, the sum of…
Reflections on Milarepa
By Redazione Published: 05/03/2008
This is how Milarepa begins to tell one of his revelatory dreams to his Guru, Marpa. Quotations about Milarepa are full of references to the mountain ... A man of the mountains... a man of the…
Reflections on the mountaineering of renunciation
By Redazione Published: 18/06/2007
We are not the first to talk to you about a mountaineering of "renunciation", and we are certainly not the first to have coined this interesting phrase.R. Messner was the first to theorise this markedly…