A piedi in Giappone fra gli 88 templi dell'isola di Shikoku

In a series that could be valuable in the context of Alpine culture, ten years later, after that successful volume "Montagna Primo Amore" in which twenty-one mountaineers recounted their initiation into the mountains, follows this second publication in which Spiro Dalla Porta Xidias addresses, in a subsequent and necessary step, the theme of mountaineering ethics. A debated theme, at the center of interminable developments and therefore of debates on which the Courmayeur Tables have tried to put a firm point and on which the author intervenes with the experience of a life dedicated to the mountains that have seen him climb with five successive generations of mountaineers, but which will continue to be the subject of conflicting and conflicting opinions. There is no shortage of paradoxical tones and polemical ideas, the result of a stringent dialectic which has the advantage of making reading not only full of ideas, but exciting. With this volume, the CAI, in the International Year of the Mountains, underlines the importance of a culture open to ideas and evaluations whose comparison confirms a vitality that is the best expression of the eternal youth of mountaineering.