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.
All the 4000s – The thin air of high altitude
By Redazione Published: 26/07/2010
The culture of information flowing across the web will probably supplant a large part of paper publishing.Looking for information is becoming ever simpler and more immediate with the help of a good computer and a…
La Mia Montagna by Giancarlo Ferron
By Redazione Published: 04/06/2010
The publishing project of Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine can be called decidedly brave.To give a voice to literary works that speak of real life, life where there is no room for fiction but rather the chance…
Gli Orsi della Val Mesath by Adriano Roncali
By Redazione Published: 11/05/2010
"Gli Orsi della Val Mesath" is a simple, direct book. A collection of short stories about mountain life and mountain people, about these gruff "men", and...so far from worldliness that they look like bears in…
La danza degli alberi (The dance of the trees) by Marcus Parisini
By Redazione Published: 13/04/2010
Here is a publisher that has chosen to invest in quality, in the human being, in the added value of a book written with feeling, in deep communion with the world of the mountains. What…
Pale di San Martino - essential maps
By Redazione Published: 06/04/2010
During a long stay at San Martino di Castrozza I needed to get hold of the maps of the Pale di San Martino.For inexperienced hikers, for those to whom the Dolomites are still unexplored territory,…
La montagna a modo mio - Reinhold Messner
By Redazione Published: 23/03/2010
Reinhold Messner is perhaps known as the most famous mountaineer in the world. Wrongly so, because Messner is above all a true “maître à penser”.It is staggering how little the mountain itself is present in…
Tomaz Humar - Prigioniero del Ghiaccio
By Redazione Published: 06/01/2010
The blow of the ice axe struck into the ice throws a few fragments of ice onto the climber. It is a small fragment destined to melt among the folds of his clothes.The water soaks…
Topo di Falesia – Jerry Moffatt
By Redazione Published: 21/12/2009
Competitive and ambitious, to the point of not mincing his words about his own life choices.A man who nonetheless, like so many mountaineers and climbers of his kind, had to toil and suffer for the…
Valli Bresciane by Daniele Dazzi
By Redazione Published: 25/06/2009
{youtube}k1SmQZGlruE{/youtube} Seven years have passed since the last guide and new routes have been born under the sky of the Brescia valleys; bolters old and new have brought to light hidden gems, which now shine…