Montagne di parole

Year: 1986 Pages: 368 “This book is not the history of Italian mountaineering, reconstructed through the stories of the authors of the exploits that marked it, or a collection of the writings of its major exponents. And it is not even an anthology in the sense of a selection of the best texts inspired by this or that aspect of mountaineering practice, evaluated in any case on the level of stylistic merit or expressive quality... rather it is an image as complete as possible of the many faces of those various activities that we collectively call mountaineering, in which mountaineers recognize themselves, and which has evocative power for those who are foreign to the mountaineering environment". The result is a very personal panorama of readings and proposals on which to meditate and reflect and which from Alessandro Sella reaches Walter Bonatti, which from Riccardo Cassin and Renato Chabod leads to Reinhold Messner and Alessandro Gogna passing through the pages of "real" writers like Dino Buzzati and Primo Levi and for the memories of unknown but equally important climbers. Inside there are all the issues, problems, illusions, fears, symbols, heroism and cowardice, exploits and sacrifices that have been such a part of our mountaineering.