Senza di lui

Year: 2010 Pages: 218 An unconventional book. Katia, the wife of Jean-Christophe Lafaille, one of the greatest mountaineers of recent years, who passed away in 2006 almost at the top of his twelfth 8000, the Makalu, takes us into the heart of the professional mountaineering world, with all its greatness and his miseries, with a disenchanted look. But the book is also a great love story, of a woman, endowed with undoubted athletic-sporting skills, who voluntarily gives up her career to indulge her husband's all-consuming passion. A true, sincere, touching story, told with a passionate tone and high emotional involvement. Many lives in one, for a woman of just forty years old: the difficult childhood, the rebellious early youth, the complicated loves, the dazzling encounter of her life, the 10 intense and unrepeatable years alongside Jean-Christophe, a great mountaineer with a non-conformist and uncompromising conception of mountaineering.