Cervino - La Montagna leggendaria

Mountaineer, writer, film maker, Hervé Barmasse was born and raised in Valtournenche by a historic family of mountain guides. He traveled from Pakistan to Patagonia, from Nepal to Tibet pursuing his great passion: the mountains, and proving himself to be the natural heir of classic mountaineers, such as Bonatti and Messner. This "definitive" book of his on the Matterhorn is not a book about a mountain, but about the mountain. A climb that through a very rich iconographic apparatus will take each of us, in our own way, to the summit. In the pages of this volume the author retraces the main stages of mountaineering - a romantic and at the same time competitive activity - which, on the Matterhorn, experienced its most important transformation: from scientific to sporting mountaineering. Many years later, we will reread its history, we will get to know the characters who made this mountain famous in the world, the legends, the anecdotes, the memorable feats... and we will bring to the attention of the general public the Matterhorn that no one yet knows. Even the most "pop" one.