La montagna ed io

Year: 2009 Pages: 270 Alexander Huber: the perfect harmony between body and mind. At the age of eleven he faced his first four thousand, since 1998 he has been a professional climber and is considered one of the best mountaineers in the world. With his brother Thomas he formed the famous Huberbuam consortium ("the Huber boys"). Together, Alexander and Thomas achieve extraordinary results, on the great mountains of the world as well as on the big walls of Yosemite Valley. Alexander is considered one of the pioneers of grade 11 sport climbing and has repeatedly won awe and admiration with his breathtaking free solos. In this passionate autobiography Alexander Huber recounts his most important successes, defeats, right and wrong choices, and lays bare his limits - he is the one who opened several spectacular routes on the rock, who fascinates with his creativity and stubbornness and surprises with the way it deals with risk. He talks about a sense of responsibility, the most recent trends in the world of mountaineering and how the future of alpine sports must be protected, all themes that emerge immediately also from the conversations, which Alexandre Huber presents again in his book, between the journalist Karin Steinbach and the people (relatives and friends) who know him closely.