Reports Archive
The hysteric, Father Christmas and the engineer
By Redazione Published: 06/03/2013
Costa della Sentina looks utterly overhanging. It isn't.The start of the route is at the mouth of the Valle Majelama. I walked beneath this face twice in the first 2 months of 2013.Climbing up to…
Simply being there...
By Redazione Published: 03/02/2013
For months I've been listening to a Marillion album, its title is really evocative for me... “Happiness is the road” and yet something escapes me. I travel a lot of road, every single day of…
Walking in the "lands of never"
By Redazione Published: 08/01/2013
I'm fighting against the “land of never”; the kitchen clock goes tick-tock and yet the night seems motionless. One after another I see the messages from my hiking companions arriving. Nothing doing... this time the…
Dente del Lupo (2297 m)
By Redazione Published: 01/10/2012
We are in the Gran Sasso massif. To be precise, the “Dente del Lupo” (Wolf's Tooth) lies at the eastern end of the Gran Sasso range, close to the summit of Monte Camicia.It is a…
Conquerors of the mist
By Redazione Published: 17/09/2012
It's really interesting to discover what can come out of a day whose goal looks more like misty nothingness than a summit of light. No light, no summit, no borders or outlines, that's what our…
I can give up a summit, but...
By Redazione Published: 10/09/2012
Maurizio tells me he's not physically in shape. His legs are shaking and he only has enough strength left to go down.I lean out beyond Pizzo di Camarda to see where the Anticima Nord-Ovest del…
Just a trig point
By Redazione Published: 26/08/2012
A friend taught me that when you have the feeling that everything is going wrong, an extra effort is needed: throw yourself out of bed, lace up your boots and set off without thinking too…
Against the "mountain stereotype"...
By Redazione Published: 20/08/2012
What is happening? What is happening is that we are almost perfect.We wear trousers neither too warm nor too cold, we have the right windproof jacket for every season. We carry the right gear, not…
Cima Wojtyla and Cresta delle Malecoste
By Redazione Published: 13/08/2012
The weekend was turning out badly... I would probably have gone off solo, hunting some summit I had never reached. But the mountains alone have a sound I no longer like: it is the egocentric…