Walter Bonatti - l'uomo, il mito

A boy from Bergamo who in just a few years becomes the best mountaineer in the world. Thus begins the story, now close to epic, of Walter Bonatti. In this book the salient stages of a life, or rather, of the many lives of the hero who passed away at the age of 81 on 13 September 2011, arousing waves of emotion among mountain enthusiasts. With the set of unpublished images and the presentations by Alessandro Gogna and Simone Moro, some aspects of his complex personality emerge. Because Bonatti was also a media sensation, a polemicist, an ecologist, a self-taught intellectual, a sociable but often elusive man. In the book, written by a journalist who was his friend and tied to his rope, the attention obviously focuses on the ascents that have so involved public opinion and on the journeys to the ends of the world that still continue to make us dream. Furthermore, the enthusiast can consult the chronology of his great days and a detailed list of all his climbs: almost a catalog of his unrepeatable mountaineering.