"In the mountains the finest gesture is to make the other person responsible for your life..."
"Catherine Destivelle" - Au De Là De Cimes
The spirit of the Gruppo Escursionistico Aria Sottile is exactly this: being able to enjoy the mountains in complete safety, knowing that you can entrust your very existence to your rope companions. Because in the mountains it is extraordinary to complete the whole route, and wonderful to get there together, having managed to give meaning to the effort. Hiking and mountaineering hold within them summits even higher than the mountains themselves... and that is exactly where we would like to arrive: to sublimate our passions so as to finally find compassion for the other...