Il Gran Paradiso

The Gran Paradiso well symbolizes the sum of the meanings that the mountain can have for man: and man is certainly the mountaineer, with his wealth of knowledge, but above all he is the farmer, the shepherd, the worker who of the mountain it is a problem not of individual affirmation but of social organization, and sometimes of survival. In this book there is history, geography, a whole naturalistic-scientific dimension, a history-anthology on exploration and mountaineering and a series of stimuli and suggestions (summer and winter itineraries, support points, characteristic gastronomy, cards that curiosities or problems in focus) that have immediate practical use for the visitor of these places.