Thought and Spirituality in the Mountains
Thoughts, reflections, small observations and aphorisms that all have at the centre of their interest the mountains, hiking, walking...
Massimo Marcheggiani: the mountaineer, the man...
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
With Massimo it's better not to get him talking, yes... because once he starts talking he literally tears your spirit apart. I wanted to interview him in person so as not to deprive myself of…
"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…
Zarathustra's mountain
By Redazione Published: 11/05/2011
"When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home and went up into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did…
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…
Andean peoples
By Redazione Published: 08/11/2007
The Andes mountain range occupies the entire coastal strip, starting from Colombia down to Chile, touching along its course Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.The Andes chain stretches from north to south along the whole western…
Paolo Erba
By Redazione Published: 15/09/2007
The mountains: a choice of life and of passion…Hi Paolo... Tell us about yourself... I'm the son of a mountain lover: when I was small she used to take me to Filettino. Curiously, my strongest…
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…