Antelao in punta di piedi

Year: 2010 Pages: 288 Antelao. Stone, snow, meadows and ice. But also silence and courage. Nothing on Antelao goes "noticed", almost as if the mountain itself did not want, out of timidity or, even more plausible, out of superiority, to let its history be seen and known. It took over 150 years for someone to dare, with his approval, to desecrate this confidentiality. And we discover that many silent men have walked its walls, its ridges, its "slabs". Heroic events, many times passed in silence, without the clamor of more noble walls. Now we can know, evaluate and fully understand the value of men in the presence of the King of Cadore. And their poetry. Every mountain can be beautiful, it can take on the most congenial forms for every human soul but it can also become a simple pile of stones if its history is not known. The mountaineer traces the routes, interprets the conformations, gives life to the stone. This is the invitation addressed to the reader: to love a mountain not only because it is objectively beautiful but above all for the shape of its lines, all conquered with effort, risk and sweat.