Alfabeto verticale

For over two centuries, mountaineering has been a passion, a leisure activity, a sport, which is gaining more and more followers. What drives so many of us to face risks, inconveniences and hardships to climb mountains? The book tells the experience of mountaineering through the ten "voices" which, in the opinion of the author, scholar, writer and journalist, constitute its essence: an engaging story, made up of personal memories, reflection, history.Height, Storm, Immensity, Risk restore the dimension of large vertical spaces; Climbing, ice climbing, ski mountaineering are the main activities practiced in the mountains; finally the Dolomites, Gran Paradiso and Tunu (Greenland), three symbolic places, which have particularly marked the mountaineering experience, not only of the author.