Giorni della grande pietra

One of the most beautiful and most loved mountains in Italy rises much further south than the Alps, in the heart of the Apennines and Abruzzo. Magnificent limestone walls, snow-covered gullies, ice waterfalls make the Gran Sasso, in summer and winter, an extraordinary playground for mountaineers. This book, written by one of the best experts on the massif, tells of the hopes, adventures, victories and tragedies experienced by generations of mountaineers on the walls of Corno Grande, Corno Piccolo, Pizzo d'Intermèsoli, Monte Camicia and the other peaks of the “Great Stone”. A story that begins in 1573, when Francesco de Marchi climbs the "Corno Monte" for the first time, and reaches the exploits on rock and ice achieved by the best mountaineers from Rome, Abruzzo and the Marche today. A story in which the "masters of the house" - the Aquilotti of the 1930s, the Roman Sucaini of the post-war period, and then Gigi Mario, Pierluigi Bini, Giampiero Di Federico, Paolo Caruso and Tiziano Cantalamessa - were often joined by men who came from far away, like Douglas Freshfield, Giusto Gervasutti and Fosco Maraini.