Information and Culture in the Apennines
K2, the last challenge by Franc Roddam
By Redazione Published: 03/09/2012
The usual ricocheting American blockbuster... On the back cover we find written: "Taylor is a young lawyer at odds with his working environment. Harold is a scientist oppressed by his intrusive wife. Both share a great…
Nanga Parbat - a film by Joseph Vilsmaier
By Redazione Published: 03/09/2012
The film "Nanga Parbat" throws you straight into a whirlwind of big themes. Within a few lines we find ourselves facing themes such as: prudence, risk, death, responsibility, faith.The introductory preamble would like to probe…
Centaurea montana L. (mountain cornflower)
By Redazione Published: 26/08/2012
The mountain cornflower is a plant found in most of the mountain areas of Europe; in Italy it is present, but rare, in the Alps and in the central Apennines (the specimens in the photos…
Ciaspolate - 100 hikes on snowshoes
By Redazione Published: 26/08/2012
Domenico Vasapollo, environmental hiking guide, ski touring instructor, canyoning instructor and member of the National Board of AIGAE, offers a handy little book... It's strange: the International Year of Mountains is long gone by now,…
Baita "La Gallinola" - mountain restaurant
By Redazione Published: 26/08/2012
The Baita "La Gallinola" is a mountain restaurant in the wildest area of Campitello Matese, far from the ski lifts and on the edge of the wood. Set at 1600 m in a small wooded…
Rifugio Casanova in the Foreste Casentinesi
By Redazione Published: 24/08/2012
The hut stands at 894 m above sea level within the boundaries of the Foreste Casentinesi National Park.It lies in the valley of the Oia, in the municipality of Stia, in the Casentino area, Province…
Battaglie per la Trafojer (Battles for the Trafojer) - Magrin and Peretti
By Redazione Published: 24/08/2012
The Great War in Alta Valtellina An important work on the historical events of the Valtellina mountains. It concerns an alpine-military episode that today would seem impossible, which took place in the summer of 1917…
Himalaya, the childhood of a chief - Eric Valli
By Redazione Published: 24/08/2012
"In a remote village in the Dolpo, in the heart of the Himalaya, the story of the old chief Tinlé who, on learning of his son's death and suspecting the ambitious Karma of being to…
Rocce della Liguria (Rocks of Liguria) - Eugenio Poggi
By Edizioni il Piviere s.r.l. Published: 24/08/2012
it is also a useful and practical tool for interpreting rocks, their genesis and evolution over the geological eras. A popular edition, accessible even to non-specialists...The volume belongs to the new, handy series “I Pivierini”,…