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EDITO TEXT DAVIDE FIORASO

We’ve finally made it to 2021. What now? Without any doubt, 2020 has been a difficult, complicated year. An extraordinarily challenging year that we will remember for a lifetime. And that, frankly, we couldn't wait to leave behind. Now, that 2021 has arrived, our lives hasn’t really changed that much compared to a few months ago. After all, as physics, philosophy and science teach us, time is only a relative concept. Yet this parameter that we use to conceive and measure the passing of events can be something powerful. By analyzing a series of cadences on our lifestyle, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered how commitments to pursue new goals (or make positive change happen) increase after time reference points, such as the beginning of a new year, the start of a new term or a new month. Think about it: how many times have we said "in January I'll start the gym again”. These benchmarks, the researchers write, “are the beginning of new periods of mental accounting that

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help relegate past imperfections and gain a new overview of our life, motivating aspirations.” In short, the effect of a new beginning. Thinking of 2021 as a new start has helped us to get a motivational boost.

se difficult times? And what good habits did you start? How have your priorities changed? Will you be able to continue to support these changes, even if the world around you seems to slowly return to normal?

Of course, we could not expect a magical resolution of every problems, yet, as only a crisis can do, the pandemic has opened up the possibility of systemic change: habits, relationships, work, management of space and time. To capitalize on this energy, it is worth reflecting on the positive practices we have developed in 2020 and that we can bring into this new year. A great example is given by Sigal Samuel in an article on Vox, citing eight habits that readers said they wanted to keep: buying fewer things, favoring responsible actions and consumption, slowing down and putting less pressure on themselves, giving priority to family and friends, daily training, regularly cooking and gardening, working from home and spending more time in nature. No way we are suggesting that 2020 was a year to be taken as an example. But why not save whatever good it has brought? Let’s think about it. What bad habits have you avoided during the-

These 8 habits, bring back to mind what Jon Kabat-Zinn, an American biologist and writer, calls voluntary simplicity: going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing, doing, acquiring less in order to have more. Kabat-Zinn is a realist and recognizes the limitations most of us face to live this way. The rent to pay or the children to feed are real needs, not a switch that can be turned off. “You don’t get to control it all” he writes “but choosing simplicity whenever possible adds to life an element of deepest freedom which so easily eludes us, and many opportunities to discover that less may actually be more.”

2020 has been characterized by a remarkable involuntary simplicity. It is up to us, given the possibility, to convert that into voluntary actions and aspects of our life that we have experienced. The effect of a new beginning can be something powerful and na incentive to support change.

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T H E F I R S T V F C O R P O R AT I O N ’ S M U LT I B R A N D S TO R E I N M I L A N The first multibrand store of the VF group, OREFICI11, has opened up in Milan, exactly in Via Orefici 11. The single-brand stores of Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri, for the first time together, give life to an innovative retail space, where digital and physical experience are intertwined, and where the different common spaces host exclusive products and collaborations which also involve other brands of the group. OREFICI11 therefore will be a creative and cultural HUB where to experiment and discover new expressive languages and new trends to export to other international realities. 2,000 square meters (on 3 levels) that pay homage to the extraordinary creative panorama of Milan in the last century.

THE NASA EXPERIENCE IN THE PRIMALOFT CROSS CORE TECHNOLOGY PrimaLoft further increases the use of post-consumer recycled material in the PrimaLoft Cross Core high-performance line, which now also includes the stretch version. To increase thermal performance, Cross Core fuses existing PrimaLoft fibers with next-generation materials such as Aerogel, a lightweight, highly porous structure originally developed by NASA scientists and today one of the best insulators in the world. Starting from autumn 2021, Cross Core platform products will contain up to 90% PCR, while maintaining industry-leading features and performance. Over 50 world brands have already adopted products from the series, such as Mammut, Dynafit, La Sportiva, Haglöfs, Montane, Black Diamond and Patagonia.

J I M M Y C H I N T E AC H E S A DV E N T U R E P H OTO G R A P H Y After the storytelling lessons with Salman Rushdie, the cooking lessons with Gordon Ramsey and the skateboarding lessons with the legendary Tony Hawk, Masterclass contacted the photographer, filmmaker and professional climber Jimmy Chin to make his knowledge available to all users. Jimmy built his career taking pictures on top of the world, earning the cover of National Geographic and an Academy Award thanks to the movie Free Solo. 20 video lessons to teach you the techniques of how to capture stunning shots and learn the different creative approaches to commercial shooting, editorial publications or projects related to your passion. Collect gear and take your photography to new heights.

O D L O ’ S I -T H E R M I C B A S E L AY E R W I N S A N I S P O AWA R D Odlo underscores its commitment to constant innovation with its first base layer with heating elements seamlessly knitted into the fabric. I-Thermic, that recently won an Ispo Award, is an innovative highly technical winter product, ideal for both slope enthusiasts and mountaineers. This lightweight layer analyses and regulates body temperature using a thermal sensor. Heated cables are seamlessly woven into fabrics for maximum comfort. Smart temperature control is provided through a phone app in order to manage your temperature on the slopes, during climbs and even on the ski-lift. Featuring a comfortable body-mapping fit, this is perfect for any cold-season challenges.

G O R E -T E X P R O D U C T S S T U D I O P R E S E N T S S I X S TO R I E S VO L . 5 Six Stories Vol.5, a project in constant evolution, closely observes the latest technological solutions of Gore-Tex, highlighting the various collaborations with partners from all over the world: Acronym, Nike, Salomon, IISE or White Mountaineering just to name a few. The new volume offers the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes and understand how the brand's innovations can make a difference in real situations, shedding light on the evolution of outdoor design through the lens of contemporary fashion brands that are defining a new functional aesthetic of streetwear. A change that is leading Gore-Tex to conquer new spaces, not only in the mountains but also in urban environments.

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FERRINO WILL DISTRIBUTE SPEKTRUM, THE SWEDISH EYEWEAR BRAND Ferrino has announced a representative partnership with the sports eyewear brand Spektrum Sports. "This segment was missing from our portfolio and we feel very aligned and inspired by the mission of Spektrum regarding their impact on sustainability" say the Turin-based company. Spektrum is a project born in 2012 by a group of professional athletes with roots in the city of Åre. A background that has allowed them to lay the foundations of the brand, leading to uncompromising quality and a clean and functional design in each product. Spektrum also tries to do everything possible to minimize its impact on the environment by using plant based materials as an alternative to plastics and polymers.

B OA W I N S T H E D E S I G N & I N N OVATO N AWA R D 2 0 2 1 After winning the Design & Innovation Award for the IP1-S platform in 2016, BOA reconfirms itself in 2021 with its latest innovation. Li2 offers an essential and low profile design, maintaining the same features that make BOA the best lacing system in the world. It guarantees a fast, precise and effortless fit. The extremely lightweight, low-profile Li2 platform offers unprecedented resistance against impacts, abrasions, dirt and dust contamination. In line with the sustainability initiatives put in place to reduce the CO2 footprint, Li2 was designed to reuse waste materials. It is available with three different dials to meet aesthetic and every configuration needs.

G A R M I N B U YS G E O S W O R L D W I D E Garmin announced the acquisition of Geos Worldwide, a company that provides, on a global level, an emergency monitoring service and requests for intervention, known for the management of the International Emergency Response Coordination Center, the nerve center for rescue operations activated by Garmin’s inReach satellite communicators. “User safety is a fundamental aspect in the development of our products” says Stefano Viganò, CEO of Garmin Italy. "With the acquisition of Geos, we now have the ability to offer an even more reliable level of protection for inReach users." Since 2007, the Geos facility has managed over 83,000 rescue operations in nearly 200 countries, including more than 12,500 regarding people in danger of life.

G I A N T B I CYC L E S A N D L I V ’ S E X PA N S I O N O N D I G I TA L Giant and Liv have officially introduced their new e-commerce. In an era characterized by the progressive digitalization of services, this innovation represents the tool to keep up with the times, allowing to offer a complete service, supported by dedicated assistance and based on an intuitive platform. Working in synergy with the network of dealers, the digital store aims to create a relationship of trust between dealers and users, who can count on the professionalism, technical expertise and widespread coverage of authorized dealers throughout the territory. New features include the implementation of the service for Cadex, a proprietary brand specializing in the design and manufacture of premium components.

F L A X TA A R R I V E S I N I TA LY I N T H E 2 0 2 1/ 2 0 2 2 W I N T E R Flaxta was born in Stockholm in 2018 thanks to the passion of a group of people with great experience in the sports protection sector. The goal is to create innovative products through a thoughtful approach to performance, style and market demands, exploring both analog and digital solutions to improve the level of security. The Swedish brand, distributed in Italy by Nov.ita srl, offers a range of high quality products that includes back protectors for skiing and ski helmets and goggles. Top of the range product is the new all mountain Deep Space helmet. Hybrid shell construction in ABS and 100% recycled EPS core, it guarantees durability and structural stability ensuring the highest level of protection. Also available with integrated Mips technology.

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Helle is a historic Norwegian company that's not afraid to take its time. Just think that each item, handmade in the small Holmedal factory, requires up to 45 steps. That's why, when Helle decided to introduce its first EDC knife, it took three years to develop, test and perfect it. The Kletten was worth the wait. Folding 2.1 inch stainless steel blade on birch handle. Weighing just 84g, it is the ideal companion for small everyday adventures.

Whether it's exploring new paths, walking mountain trails or warming up after a run, the Land Technical Shirt will accompany you on any adventure. Made of breathable and stretch fabric, it guarantees maximum comfort by combining the benefits of wool with the quick drying of polyester. Long, rounded cut at the back to offer extra coverage while you are pedaling. The sleeves can be easily rolled up thanks to the elastic cuffs.

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Reducing injuries in running is an ambitious goal that can be addressed in two ways. One of these is to improve an existing model to make it even more effective. React Infinity Run 2 features an updated Flyknit upper to help give greater strength and support in the forefoot and stride, with greater breathability in areas such as the midfoot. The collar has been updated to be more comfortable without adding weight or bulk.

The legendary Drakkar, flagship of the Borealis line, is the quintessential freeriding board. While maintaining its general features, the new 2021 version stands out for a more aggressive character and a completely redesigned tail, aspects that give it personality and modernity without distorting its core. The result? More response in powder, more maneuverability, less weight. UltraLight Forest Core in FSC certified bamboo and paulownia.

With the spread of cargo e-bikes, new forms of bikepacking are born. Among the so-called camper trailers, the most interesting news is CreaCon's Scout model. Once unfolded it becomes a bedroom complete with a relax area featuring an outdoor veranda. The living module can be used independently of the trolley, allowing you to take advantage of the 550 liters of cargo once at destination. It connects to the bicycle through a lockable Weber joint.

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Functional, breathable, resistant, waterproof. Designed for enduro and all mountain cyclists. With Dirtsuit rain, mud and wind will no longer be a problem thanks to the sealed seams, waterproof zips and a resistance of 10,000mm of water columns. Six generous air intakes and a breathability of 10,000g/m²/24h guarantee the necessary thermoregulation. The fun, at this point, only stops if you decide it.

Available from the 2021 summer, Climbax is the world's first climbing tracker that takes this sporting activity to a new dimension. Together with the Mammut Climb App, the two bracelets record the most relevant data: vertical meters, number of movements performed, use of the right or left hand, ascent and pause times. The information gathered allows climbers to compare their performance and measure themselves during competitions.

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D-Air Lab is a start-up founded in 2015 by Dainese for the research and development of new technological applications for personal protection. D-One is a vest dedicated to runners equipped with front and rear LED lights (which will allow you to always be visible) and an electronic safety system that constantly communicates with the smartphone thanks to motion sensors that detect prolonged immobility in case you fall or get hurt.

Loopo Lite is an ultralight harness for mountaineering and ski mountaineering characterized by a Dyneema frame with load-bearing edges that creates a super resistant and safe structure but with such small dimensions that it can be stored in a pocket. Perforated foam and mesh fabric for the maximum possible breathability and unmatched lightweight. Elastic straps on the leg loops allow you to wear it without removing skis or crampons.

Weighing just 725 grams, the new Ortles Couloir is a fully cramponable mountaineering boot, the latest high-tech product in the Salewa line. Its compact design ensures precision on rock and ice. The ingenious carbon fiber exoskeleton (with Kevlar inserts) ensures walkability in the approach phase and support during climbing. Ispo Gold Award 2021 in the Mountaineering Boots category.

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A few days after its acquisition by Vf Corporation, the brand founded by James Jebbia opens the doors of the sixteenth FW20 collection by renewing its collaborative effort with The North Face. The object of desire of the entire proposal is an exclusive reinterpretation of the Faux Fur Nuptse, characterized by a synthetic fur with 700Fill down insulation and Windwall lining. It is completed by an attractive co-branding positioned on the sleeve.

To celebrate the launch of the Holiday Market, Our Legacy has partnered with the Parisian brand Satisfy in an exclusive capsule for Fall/Winter 2020. The Trail 3” shorts combine a Tech-Silk ripstop shell with a Justice elastic lining that provides support and avoids chafing. Six easy-access pockets, a sweat-resistant phone pocket and a mini carabiner for the keys. Each garment boasts the distinctive signature with reflective 3M print.

After the announcement of a collaboration with Jil Sander (scheduled for the end of 2021), Arc'teryx is again under the flashlight thanks to a capsule collection with Palace. A partnership that mixes the climbing culture with the skateboarding one, celebrating the irreverent and anarchic nature historically present in both communities. The line features the AR (All-Round) daypack of the Alpha series designed for multiple uses in the Alps.

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After a turn of events, anticipated by the presentation of the first Vapor Waffle at the Paris Fashion Week, Chitose Abe’s brand has revealed the new colors for the SS21 season. This hybrid between the Vaporfly and the 1983 Pegasus stands out for its deconstructed look, given by the overlapping of numerous layers in mesh and suede. The sole features an extremely chunky aesthetic with a perfect mash-up between the two Nike Running silhouettes.

Elliot Brown realizes the toughest watches in the world, also used by the Mountain Rescue England and Wales organization. This watch, built for the most extreme environments, it emulates Land Rover's motto “Above and Beyond” in terms of capacity and durability. It features scratchresistant sapphire crystal, unidirectional bezel and luminous dial. A screwed caseback system and triple crown gasket ensure water resistance up to 200 meters.

GlideLite Mohair Mix by Black Diamond (65% mohair, 35% nylon) are among the best skins on the market, designed for long ski tours where compressibility, elasticity, lightweight and traction are essential. This exclusive edition for Backcountry Magazine includes the new Snap Fit attachments and the patented STS system that offers up to 10cm of adjustment on the tail. Available in pre-cut lengths, with a standard width of 125mm.

Ride, Protect & Share, these three words represent the essence of who we are: a snowboard, ski, surf, and outdoor clothing brand who, while not taking ourselves too seriously, still want to effect change. At a time when the textile industry is responsible for 8% of the world’s carbon emissions and where the climate crisis has reached its peak, we all have our role to play to make a difference. Since Picture started in 2008, we have always sought to push one step further to minimize our impact on the environment. Our commitment to a sustainable, ethical, and environmentally-responsible approach covers every aspect of our business, from the supply chain, to manufacturing, to shipping.

Okay, great, but alone we are just a drop in the bucket. This is where B-Corp certification has meaning: using business and our influence as a force for good. We need to galvanize as many people as possible from our community – partners, and stakeholders in the outdoor and apparel industries - to participate in the energy transition and in removing carbon from the global economy.

To reduce the consequences doing business has on both the climate and people, we need to wipe out our dependence on fossil fuels. Curbing our impact on the environment and limiting growth, changing conventional production models, and promoting reasonable consumption are all key pillars of this evolution.

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A windproof model inspired by the famous colored bricks. Adidas and Lego come together to create a collection full of color that stimulates the imagination and allows you to reinvent the look of the little ones. Products ideal for playing with style. This wide cut half-zip jacket includes Wind.Rdy technology that protects from the wind to offer maximum comfort even on cooler days. Front pocket with flap, elasticated cuffs and hem.

LC23 was born in 2010 from an idea of Leonardo Colacicco, a management engineer with a passion for e-fashion. Designed exclusively as a shirt brand, over the years it has evolved the collections in a unisex total look. Despite the strong fashion identity, Colacicco has collaborated with Polartec to design an armchair using his fabrics. Five versions, structure in fir wood, contrasting nylon pockets with zip.

The iconic 116 JJ continues to carve its name in the tradition of freeriding skiing. From this fantastic three-way collaboration comes a limited series of only 35 pieces with a graphic version dedicated to the late JP Auclair, signed by the founder of Armada himself and by Alpine Initiatives, a collective of skiers that promotes mountain experiences and environmental awareness. Full proceeds from sales will benefit Canary Club initiatives.

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Parks Project’s mission is to preserve national parks for future generations. To date, it has helped fund conservation projects worth over $1,200,000. In the apparel and accessories store, a new collection celebrates the legacy of the National Geographic Society, the passion for the outdoors and the responsibility to promote and protect public lands. Among the items in the line there’s this cap in 100% cotton with a 6-panel construction.

Limited edition cooler bag part of the Golden Hours Series that was born from the collaboration between Coors, a historic Colorado brewing company and Huckberry, a famous retailer from San Francisco born from an idea by Andy Forch and Richard Greiner. Waxed canvas cover, leak proof inner lining, waterproof YKK zippers, leather reinforced handle. It can accommodate up to 10 cans. The side pocket can hold a bottle opener or store loose caps.

Östra, top of the range model of the Swedish brand Spektrum, gets colored in gold for the special edition called Vassi by Haglöfs. Made of plant-based plastic, it is equipped with Carl Zeiss Vision polycarbonate lenses with 100% UV protection and rapid exchange magnetic system. Mirror finish, anti-fog treatment and great field of view. 50mm polyester strap, non-slip insert and exclusive Hypalon label with metal logo and spare lens included.

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VIBRAM LAUNCHES VIBRAM FIVEFINGERS KSO ECO Vibram has launched its first eco-friendly fivefinger shoe. KSO Eco represents the real sustainable future of FiveFingers. The main innovation is the Vibram N-OIL compound sole, made up of over 90% natural materials. The original color is made with 100% of pigments obtained by extraction from plants or with drying techniques. Another feature is the hemp upper, which guarantees greater comfort and durability than classic cotton. An ideal shoe for indoor training, functional fitness, yoga and pilates. At the same time perfect for a more urban use, dedicated to those who want to perceive the ground with the feeling of being barefoot.

CANADA GOOSE PRESENTS STA N DA R D E X P E D I T I O N PA R K A Canada Goose sets a new level for sustainable outerwear with the launch of the Standard Expedition Parka, the highest expression of its Humanature platform. The brand has transformed its traditional Arctic Tech fabric into the Recycled Organic version, a unique blend of recycled polyester and organic cotton. The outer shell, derived from the Feather-Light Ripstop, is made of 100% recycled nylon designed to protect against wind, rain and snow. The greige colorway is the result of a limited use of chemicals, while the down of the padding is produced 100% responsibly. The creation of the parka generates 30% less carbon and uses 65% less water than the classic version.

INFINNA: THE SUPERFIBER T H E W O R L D WAS WA I T I N G F O R The Austrian group Andritz, active in the field of engineering, and the biotech company Infinited Fiber Co., have signed a cooperation agreement to develop new solutions in the waste regeneration sector and to make textile circularity a daily reality. The patented technology, which operates on a wide range, is able to transform any raw material rich in cellulose, including fabric scraps, used cardboard, but also crop residues such as rice or wheat straw, into cellulose carbamate textile fibers, a new material with features similar to cotton’s. The yarn, registered under the name Infinna, will be on the market already in the first months of 2021.

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NEW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS A FRIEND OF THE ENVIRONMENT A few hours after the beginning of his term, Joe Biden signed a series of provisions to overturn some of the previous Trump administration's decisions regarding public land and emissions. These include the revocation of the permit for the controversial Keystone pipeline and, most importantly, the re-entry of the United States into the Paris Agreement in order to reduce harmful emissions and lower the global temperature increase by 2° Celsius by 2100. Environmental protection has been a key issue for Biden's election campaign, which views climate change as "humanity's number one problem". The response from the major players in the outdoor sector was fast and overwhelmingly positive.

SY M PAT E X J O I N S VAU D E ’ S E B AY U P C YC L I N G STO R E Sympatex, a manufacturer of functional fabrics, has announced a partnership with eBay Upcycling Store launched by Vaude in March 2020. From today, on the popular online shop, in addition to the scraps from the German brand's factories, sewing and crafts enthusiasts will have the opportunity to buy excess fabrics and Sympatex production scraps that would otherwise be wasted. "Figuratively speaking, the Upcycling Store is a wonderful example of what matters when it comes to sustainability in the textile sector: we need creative solutions and the courage to develop new ideas" explains Carina Dietrich, Sympatex Business Development Manager. The proceeds from the sales will be donated to Save the Children.

ARC'TERYX COMMITS $ 1 MILLION T O C O N N E C T P E O P L E W I T H N AT U R E Arc'teryx marks the beginning of 2021 with an initiative to improve our existence through the power of nature. "The challenges of 2020 have brought to light the importance of physical and mental wellbeing. We were inspired to launch Outer Peace by asking ourselves: what does the world need?" said George Weetman from the Arc’teryx team. "Nature relaxes us and heals us [...] we want to inspire people to go outdoors." In collaboration with experts from the scientific, design and sports community, Arc'teryx will support initiatives to promote ideas and actions to ensure that everyone can spend more time outdoors by supporting talented partners working to tackle structural inequalities.

I K E A B U Y S 4 0 0 0 H E C TA R E S O F F O R E S T I N G E O R G I A T O P R O T E C T I T F R O M E X P L O I TAT I O N Well managed forests offer essential benefits. Ingka, the investment group of Swedish giant Ikea, has purchased nearly 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia, in the Altamaha River basin. The aim is to prevent the exploitation of an area that is home to more than 350 species of wild plants and animals, including the rare long-leaf pine and gopher tortoise. In this way, the company will prevent illegal trafficking and killing, allowing the conservation of the natural habitat. It is not the first time that Ikea has dedicated itself to this kind of initiative. The group owns approximately 250,000 hectares of forest land in Europe and the United States, including Carolina, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma. The forest will be managed in partnership with The Conservation Fund.

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Cober The Art of Skiing The ART OF SKIING was born in 2020, it is a project strongly desired by Cober which will see the collaboration of several artists to show the important, but underdeveloped, combination of art and sport. Each year a different Italian artist from the contemporary scene will be chosen to interpret two seasons (winter and summer) through works of art. Each of these works will then be declined by Cober in clothing and other products that reflect the spirit of this collaboration. The first artist chosen for this project is Mauro Baio. Mauro was born in 1991 in Lecco, a small town on the shore of one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, nestled between high mountains. He has always been passionate about art, drawing and outdoor sports, but in 2012 he was diagnosed with a serious disabling disease. Despite the difficulty in making even the smallest gestures, the artist did not lose his insatiable positivity and resourcefulness, and in 2015 he started studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. After graduating with honors, he went back to his hometown and began working as a full-time artist in his studio. The stability in the control of the disease allows Mauro to spend whole days in close contact with nature, where he finds the greatest source of inspiration to broaden his perspectives. For The ART OF SKIING, Mauro Baio has created oil paintings on canvas interpreting the winter 21/22 and summer 22 seasons for Cober. The works, Red & Blue N° 5, Blue Landscape N° 4, Desert Landscape N° 3, show in fact themes inspired by the winter and summer world. “When I paint I try to think about life through my experiences, and not about art. What I want to express is a mere compositional and chromatic harmony” says Mauro, whose goal is to best express the composition of the image. Furthermore, a reference point for the artist is "less is more", the simple and effective message of the David Hockney studio that inspired Mauro. Each person, in fact, has his own personal vision of the world and the artist, when choosing a subject, approaches it in the same way, researching and selecting images of lived experiences.

After the selection of the images, the digital sketching phase begins in order to arrive at the final piece of art. Then the oil paintings are painted exactly as they were designed, with the possibility of moving from the initial idea during the execution phase. The approach is very meticulous, and the artist works on each work with the utmost care and attention. The choice of materials is also very important, from wood for the frame, to cotton and plaster for the canvas and finally, the most important element, color, made up of extremely pure pigments of the highest quality. The theme is the mountain seen as a pure ethics of life made up of contrasting perceptions.

The sacredness and the power of an almost uncontaminated natural environment. The artist's favorite way to deal with these environments is skiing, which is an art in itself, the art of drawing lines on a white canvas.

“Feeling small but at the same time big in covering these uphill distances fighting on the snow and putting your life on the line, because the mountain is majestic, sacred but it is one of the most unpredictable and dangerous natural elements.”

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Dolomite Re-Source Dolomite has over a century of experience in the design, development and production of footwear of the mountain and sportswear sector.

In fact, since 1897, it has been telling true stories, epic adventures and extraordinary conquests. Today, its aim is to improve the impact of its business practices in order to preserve the environment for future generations and to stimulate a positive change in the community. With this in mind, the Re-Source program by Dolomite was established to develop and promote corporate social responsibility, and it focuses on three key pillars: people, product and planet. For Dolomite it is in fact very important that all the people across its supply chain are treated fairly with respect and dignity. Everyone have to sign the brand's code of conduct that prohibits child labor, forced labor, discrimination, abuse or harassment. Instead, it promotes freedom of association and collective bargaining, proper compensation and benefits, and adequate working hours and employment. Dolomite is committed to ensuring health and safety and supporting environmental responsible practices. After the code of conduct, comes the product. The main goal is to maximize the sustainable nature of Dolomite products while still maintaining their level of performance through R&D, new technologies and design. The use of eco responsible, recycled, bio-based and certified materials and the collaboration with socially responsible manufacturers and suppliers are privileged. It is a company policy aimed at preserving our planet, whose resources must be used in such a way that ecosystems and future generations shouldn’t be adversely affected. Dolomite pays close attention to emissions data from its supply chain, products and their distribution. And it is only by clearly understanding and measuring where actions are most impactful that true positive changes can be made.

Sorapis is the first Re-Source certified shoe. Dolomite has developed a list of parameters considered essential for a shoe to be eco-responsible and Sorapis is the first model that satisfies them all. Recently awarded with an Ispo Award in the Urban Life segment of the Lifestyle Footwear category, the shoe has a contemporary and urban-inspired design. It features details that strongly recall the spirit of iconic mountain footwear. The upper is made of metal-free leather and comes from Italian leather working group certified tanneries, an international non-profit responsible organization. The second essential parameter for defining a "Re-Source" shoe concerns the components

produced with the use of recycled material. This is the case of laces, lining and footbed that comply with the Global Recycled Standard. The presence of bio-based material represents the third parameter by which the sustainability level of footwear is evaluated and the Vibram N-Oil sole completely satisfies this need. Composed of 90% non-petroleum-derived materials and 100% dyed with natural pigments, it has recently obtained a certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The integration process between recycled, certified and bio-based materials allows to improve the environmental and social impact of Dolomite products while the constant research and collaboration with socially responsible suppliers and production partners allows for sustainable improvement of production processes.

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Trezeta Woman Specific Outdoor activities are becoming more and more popular, and year after year, the mountains are getting more and more crowded. That’s why it is therefore essential to choose the right footwear that will allow us to fully experience every outdoor adventure. Coming to trekking in particular, it is necessary to consider the type of activity we are going to face, the type of terrain but, above all, our own physical features. Until a few years ago, women's products were simply men's models in smaller sizes and with colors that were considered “feminine”. Today, fortunately, it is well known that there are substantial differences between men and women models that go beyond stereotypes. In fact, although male and female boots may look alike on the outside, the design and construction differences are fundamental as anatomy, shape, weight and size of the foot are different and therefore shoes must be different. Trezeta, a company with its roots in Treviso, has decades of experience in the development of footwear dedicated exclusively to the female world. Over the years, various in-depth studies have been conducted on the biomechanics of foot support, on materials, volumes, design and attention to the type of work that the foot and footwear have to do while walking. All these data have been then merged into Woman Specific products such as Glitter WP, Annette Evo WP, Claire Evo WP and Carrie WP, the top women models of the Trezeta production. In particular, Annette, Claire and Carrie have a demi cut collar that is lower and more rounded than others mid cut models and it is made of elastic materials that facilitate the accommodation of the tendons, avoiding pressure and friction points. In addition, the super-cushioning EVA midsole is perfect for absorbing even the most intense shocks on bumpy mountain trails.

All Trezeta women's footwear have in common important features such as comfort and an attractive look, they’re made with fine leather and soft and breathable materials, tapered toecap, increased heel height and a flexible insole specific for women, Lady Footbed, which perfectly follows foot ergonomics. In addition, the ergonomic and fluid lacing allows the laces to slide easily into the eyelets, adapting the shoe to the shape of the foot, while the Vibram sole has a specific design that gives maximum grip on any surface, debris discharge and self-cleaning function. Finally, the Trezeta Water Stopper lining protects against water, infiltrations and external elements. These are fundamental details that contribute to increasing comfort and performance on footwear specifically designed for the female anatomy in which technology and comfort blend with aesthetic elements such as seams and side decorations that recall mountain trails and paths.

Trezeta’s proposals stand out for their fit, durability, reliability and technology, the result of decades of tradition and experience, such as the historic Juliette model, now out of production but that Trezeta's female customers have shown to appreciate for its fit and comfort. All these features have led to the creation of perfect shoes for rediscovering our relationship with nature, where the pleasure of walking in the mountains and the physical and psychological well-being that can give an outdoor adventure is essential.

Perfect shoes for rediscovering our relationship with nature, where the pleasure of walking in the mountains and the physical and psychological well-being that can give an outdoor adventure is essential.

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Ortovox Diract Voice Since 1980 Ortovox stood for maximum protection on the mountains.

For years it has provided all outdoor enthusiasts with emergency equipment, backpacks and functional clothing in Merino wool and eco-sustainable Swisswool wool (Ortovox is in fact a leading company of the Fair Wear Foundation) but also with targeted training included in a network of experts. All elements designed to make mountaineering more and more safer and to save precious human lives day after day. Today Ortovox takes an extra step with the launch of Diract Voice, the world's first avalanche transceiver with integrated voice navigation. Experience teaches us that when you are involved in an avalanche you live in a situation of extreme stress. In such a condition, the human body reacts to the emergency by improving physical performance, but at the same time decreasing cognitive abilities. It is precisely at this moment that we need emergency devices that are easy to use and immediate. Diract Voice is a 3-antenna device that includes a integrated Smart Antenna Technology that automatically selects the best reception antenna and is equipped with a signal marking button in case of multiple buried victims. It is rechargeable with a USB-C port even at low temperatures and includes secondary avalanche protection in search and stand by mode and a Recco reflector in the transport system. In the event of an avalanche, it is able to guide searchers with clear voice commands, allowing them to quickly locate the victim. The voice navigation integrated into the avalanche search device is essential because it allows you to continue observing what’s happening around you without being forced to look away to check the device. Every image our eye observes needs to be processed by the brain and translated into a reaction. When a voice performs this function, by acoustically transmitting the command,

the message processing phase is bypassed. In fact, clear commands means less involvement of the cognitive component, which in a stressful situation is in any case less efficient. The design is particularly streamlined and logical. In fact, Diract Voice features a single operation button, an extra large 34mm × 45mm with 360° real-time display and a handy toggle switch that allows you to quickly switch from the transmit to the search mode, meaning the device is simple to operate even when wearing gloves. Available in several navigation languages, it recently won an Ispo Gold Award. Diract Voice makes searching for avalanche victims easier and ideally faster for searchers and saves decisive seconds for saving precious lives.

Experience teaches us that when you are involved in an avalanche you live in a situation of extreme stress. In such a condition, the human body reacts to the emergency by improving physical performance, but at the same time decreasing cognitive abilities. It is precisely at this moment that we need emergency devices that are easy to use and immediate.

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Mizuno Wave Daichi 6 Mizuno, the Japanese company founded in 1906 and manufacturer of sports equipment and clothing, renews its collection and presents the Wave Daichi 6, the latest evolution of its flagship model in the trail field.

The Wave Daichi 6 has in fact been completely redesigned compared to previous editions to offer a new running experience. The model takes inspiration from the most difficult mountain trails, ideal terrains for the adventurous spirit of all trail runners. The shoe is well balanced and versatile and it is characterized by an ergonomic fit system that guarantees greater stability of the foot during the run. Double layer Airmesh upper is breathable and resistant and has reinforcements on the sides to improve impact protection while maintaining the comfort of its predecessors. The reinforced toe protects the foot from debris and cuts along the way. The midsole has 3mm of extra height in the forefoot, giving a more cushioned and responsive ride. On the forefoot there’s a rigid EVA that allows you to protect the most sensitive area of the sole of the foot from dangerous elements along the way, the heel area is instead reinforced to allow easier braking during descents. Finally, the Michelin rubber sole, with a wider tread than the previous version, offers unparalleled grip thanks to the renewed design of the lugs that provide better traction and grip on all surfaces, and also prevents clogging from debris on particularly muddy ground. The Daichi 6 also features the Mizuno Wave technology that offers cushioning and stability giving the shoe an unbeatable adaptability to run even along the most difficult terrain without fear and without distractions.

Like all Mizuno products, this new model also has features that optimize runner performance thanks to original and exclusive solutions. These work in harmony with the body and guarantee maximum support to allow all outdoor enthusiasts to give their best on any terrain and in any condition.

The Wave Daichi 6 has in fact been completely redesigned compared to previous editions to offer a new running experience, ideal for the adventurous spirit of all trail runners.

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Picture Organic Clothing: Second life, end of life? The fight against climate change starts by wiping out fossil fuels: coal, oil, natural gas.

This involves every aspect of a brand’s business, from source materials to packaging, by way of all travel and shipping. Another important aspect is repairing products in order to increase their durability and lifespan and to reduce their overall impact on the environment. Picture’s products are designed to be used for as long as possible. Rather than exchanging an old product for a new one, the company repairs, whenever it is possible, rips tears, and other damage a product incurs when used, even when the guarantee is over. That’s because repairs increase a product’s longevity, diminishing its overall impact on the environment. To provide this service, the brand has worked with repair centers since Picture started in 2008. But from fall 2020, some products such as outerwear jackets and pants, midlayers and beewax jackets, will be covered by Picture’s new lifetime repair warranty. For the time being, this lifetime repair warranty only applies to the European and North American markets and also covers past seasons’ products from the same categories This project fits into Picture’s overall approach to conservation: reducing energy needs and effecting change in consumption patterns. A diagram provided by climate experts Carbone 4 ranks the most relevant habits people can develop to reduce our impact as individuals, and at no additional financial cost. After adopting a vegetarian diet, cycling for short journeys, car sharing and giving up flights, “Less new clothes” comes in 5th place. The calculation is factual and based solely CO2 emissions, not on

any specific or fashionable trends. But what if a product is no longer wearable o repairable? Upcycling is a good first option. It consists of cutting out different pieces of a jacket, for example, to make new items after sewing a seam or two such as pouches, tote bags, covers, etc. However, this only puts a band-aid on the problem since, in the end,

you can’t recycle the entire jacket. The final option is to recycle. Bio-recycling solutions are emerging. The final aim will be to offer a real product endof-life and new product solution. The ultimate goal through recycling is to create a new polyester thread and then make a new product finally closing the loop.

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garment that is in contact with the skin and to ensure better moisture management. Top of the Picture range is the Nangha Top, a long-sleeved baselayer made of recycled polyester and available in four colorways: camp, with a pine and mountain design, safran, in solid saffron, traditional black and the prints of imaginary world. Furthermore, like all the baselayers of the French brand, Nangha Top also features the Dry Feel antibacterial treatment.

Picture Organic Clothing: The Art of Layering The art of layering. A technique that is the basis of modern clothing culture for outdoor sports. Voice of the verb to stratify. What our grandmothers have always called “to dress like an onion”, which means regulating body temperature by adding and removing layers or using different types of layers according to the external temperature and the intensity of the effort. It is the art of layering. A technique that is the basis of modern clothing culture for outdoor sports. Picture Organic Clothing, the French brand pioneer of environmental sustainability applied to sports fashion, has always offered

a complete collection of cold-proof layered clothing, made up of different layers. The starting point is the baselayer, which is the layer that will come into contact with the skin. These products use Polartec Powerstretch, Thermal Pro, Hybrid Insulated, designed to create the necessary insulation and give warmth the body without sacrificing comfort thanks to the stretch fabric. The choice of baselayer is particularly important, although it is often considered last. The baselayer, in fact, is essential to ensure the correct comfort of a

Equally important is the external insulating layer, the one that will come in contact with the environment around us. The Horse Jacket by Picture is a hybrid garment with body mapping technology that provides great warmth. Breathability is instead guaranteed by the parts in Polartec Power Stretch Pro and by the Primaloft Eco synthetic insulation. The Horse Jacket is also finished with Ecoelite PFC free water repellent treatment and uses the lightweight and resistant, but at the same time very compressible, Pertex Quantum, made of 100% recycled polyester. In fact, all Picture products ideal for layering are eco-sustainable and made with recycled polyesters. They also feature an innovative design that underlines the strong brand identity.

All Picture products ideal for layering are ecosustainable and made with recycled polyesters. They also feature an innovative design that underlines the strong brand identity.

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Scarpa

1 . M A E S T R A L E Freeriding boot for the expe-

rienced ski mountaineer. Co-injection of materials that guarantees high performance in terms of torsional hold and stiffness and Bi-Injection Overlap cuff that increases skiing performance and agility when walking. 2 . C H I M E R A Climbing shoe suitable for both

crags and bouldering. Asymmetrical and arched shape for excellent precision and flexibility. Upper that combines 8 pieces of microfiber and Vibram XS Grip 2 sole with a 2mm XS Grip 2 shaped heel. 3.

G T X A P P R O A C H Ideal model for moving quickly on the mountains and for keeping the feet dry when it’s raining. Upper in waterproof and abrasion resistant technical fabric, waterproof Gore-Tex Invisible Fit lining and Vibram Megagrip sole. 3.RAPID

1. 1.

Buff H A T Ultralight and seamless model for running and high intensity activities. Its reflective design is perfect to enjoy night outdoor action in the city with improved security. Extremely breathable and stretchable, it provides quick drying and extra warmth. 1.DRYFLX

La Sportiva 1 . G E C K O G Y M W O M A N Shoe designed to be used in the gym. Made of 3-layer Wa-

shTex fabric, it features the new FriXion White no-marking sole that does not leave marks on indoor climbing walls and at the same time guarantees very high durability. 2 . T C P R O Designed for long routes, it guarantees maximum comfort even after many

hours of use thanks to the soft internal padding in the ankle and front area. The high cut of the upper protects the ankle from rubbing. 3 . V A N G U A R D Ideal for ski mountaineers due to a perfect balance between comfort

and technicality both uphill and downhill. The innovative design of the upper makes the boot solid and reactive. The shell with symmetrical cuff closure combines mobility with an intuitive fit.

2 . D R Y F L X T U B U L A R Ultralight and

seamless tubular created for running and high intensity activities. Its 360º reflective design offers improved security even during night or early morning outdoor action. Warm, breathable and stretchable, it provides quick drying.

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Aku

2. 1.

G T X Comfortable and breathable boot with Elica Natural Stride System technology that promotes biodynamic efficiency. It is part of the new solutions for reducing environmental impact in partnership with Gore-Tex, Vibram and the Italian tannery Dani. 1.COLDAI

E V O G T X Lightweight and protective footwear easy to wear every day for both light excursions and urban adventures. Lacing with 45° cord tie rod for optimal hold. The Vibram Cruise sole with XS-Trek compound guarantees traction. 2.RAPIDA

2 . K E B WO O L PA D D E D J AC K E T

3. E X P E D I T I O N X- L ÄT T J AC K E T

Fjällräven 1 .T R E E - K Å N K E N

External fabric and internal lining derive from wood transformed into a 100% vegetable cellulose yarn and subsequently processed into a unique cellulosic fabric. A sustainable and fantastic backpack for everyday needs.

A model that features a recovery wool padding that helps to rebalance the body temperature in more or less intense activities. The hood protects from freezing winds and small items can be stored in the four pockets.

Cober C A R B O N A D J U S T A B L E Pole suitable for freeriding descents thanks to the long foam grip that offers different grips. The lever, which allows to adjust the lower part, gives the possibility to use the pole both uphill and downhill. 1.ADVENTURE

B A C K P A C K Lightweight and super compact model, when closed it measures only 50cm, it is therefore ideal to be stored in the backpack and comfortably allows every descent even with the snowboard. It also features a basket that is interchangeable. 2.

3 . R E V E R S O The foam grip allows different grips, making this

pole particularly suitable for freeriding descents. The lever at the top offers easy adjustment in all situations. 7075 aluminum is particularly resistant to shocks.

This jacket offers the necessary protection when the warmth produced by the body is not enough. Made of 100% recycled polyamide, it is the ideal insulating layer suitable for a wide variety of outdoor activities.

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Ferrino

1 . T R I O L E T 2 5 + 3 Light and essential

mountaineering and climbing backpack, characterized by an innovative upper access that offers a fast opening, protection and extra volume when needed. The upper liner extends to offer an additional 3 liters of volume. ROUSSE Second thermal layer with excellent performance and attention to the environment. The Made in Italy fabric by Pontetorto is composed of Perpetual and Econyl recycled polyester yarns, a 100% nylon fiber regenerated from fishing nets and nylon waste. 2 .T E T E

2.SELLA SKI 3L POWERTEX RES P O N S I V E J A C K E T 3-layer Power-

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Salewa 1 .C R I STA L LO RESPONSIVE

ALPINE MERINO B A S E L A Y E R Base-

layer realized with the exclusive Responsive technology. This process creates fibers that are stronger, softer and more voluminous and 30% lighter than the ones of comparable baselayers, as well as a comfortable seamless collar.

Dolomite

tex fabric jacket with waterproof and breathable membrane, it offers protection from wind, snow and cold. The print on the inner part contains a blend of Responsive minerals that stimulates cell functions, circulation and oxygenation.

J A C K E T Lightweight and waterproof down jacket in 100% recycled nylon that guarantees total protection for the winter. The internal padding is in 100% post-consumer recycled synthetic down which provides total protection and high performance. 1.EXPEDITION

Contemporary and urban-inspired design. Upper in metal-free leather from Italian Leather Working Group certified tanneries. The Vibram N-Oil sole is made of non-petroleum-derived materials and natural pigments. 2.SORAPIS

dlayer with a comfortable fit that does not restrict freedom of movement. Made of 4-way stretch nylon with a water-repellent DWR PFC-free finish, the inside of the arms is made of a polyester and Merino wool blend.

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Ortovox

Mammut

1 . F R E E R I D E G L O V E Gloves ideal for freeriding and ski tou-

1.CLOSE

T H E L O O P T - S H I R T Made entirely from reprocessed waste coming from old climbing ropes collected at climbing gyms and stores, this t-shirt is lightweight and perfect for outdoor activities all year round. It dries in no time and its structure is extra comfortable on the skin.

ring. Padded with a mix of virgin and recycled Merino wool, they are warm and waterproof thanks to the Sympatex membrane. They have an elastic safety insert and an adjustable hem width. 2 . D E E P S H E L L J A C K E T PFC-free freeriding model that

guarantees complete protection and a great fit while maintaining a low weight. In areas of the body that are particularly sensitive to cold, the Dermizax.ev membrane is lined with certified Merino wool.

2 . C L I M B A X Climbing tracker developed together with profes-

P I Z B A D U S J A C K E T The outer part is made of Tec Stretch, an elastic, breathable and wind resistant material. The Swisswool wool padding provides warmth without limiting freedom of movement. The pre-adjusted hood gives additional protection.

3 . D U C A N B O A H I G H G T X Technical hiking shoe for out-

sional athletes. It allows you to record activity data such as vertical meters, the number of movements performed, the ascent and pause times, to then analyze and compare them with other climbers.

3.SWISSWOOL

door enthusiasts who demand performance. The Boa Fit system allows a customized fit, the Flextron Technology supports the natural rolling movement for more efficient use of energy and the Vibram rubber blend gives secure grip.

Masters

1 . D O M A I N Made of Alutech 7075, this pole is thin, strong and

lightweight. The Rapax grip, the Combo system and the Gryphon basket define a sober style that is well suited to all the colors of clothing and sports equipment used. 2 . B L A S T E R Model of the Allround line in three colorways. The

bi-material grip with soft-touch finish is assembled with the strap equipped with a buckle for adjustment. In Alu5083 and 16mm diameter, this pole is available from the 105cm to 135cm size. 3 . D E S T I N Y A pole with feminine colorways on a black back-

ground that gives it an elegant contrast. The strap is soft, comfortable and adjustable and fits the Rapax grip and the Gryphon basket mounted with a tungsten tip.

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Wild Tee L AVA MEN JACKE T WITH HOODIE

Comfortable jacket with hoodie that protects from bad weather. Always at hand, it folds up and compacts in its own inner pocket. Thanks to the stretching fabric with a crepe effect, it adapts to each movement of the body.

Black Diamond SPRINTER 500 HEADLAMP

Headlamp ideal in every situations. Thin and well balanced, it emits up to 500 lumens in the brightest light setting. Intuitive Black Diamond interface and PowerTap technology for precise brightness adjustment.

Climbing Technology

Deuter

AGILE KIT

Safety system that can be used as an ice ax or transformed into a shovel, to be used to dig in the snow or to make a makeshift shelter. Consisting of ice ax, shovel, blade cover and net bag in which to transport and store the kit.

F R E E S C A P E 2 4 S L For ambitious ski

mountaineers who need a lightweight and well equipped backpack for day-long routes in high-alpine terrain. Very comfortable thanks to its back system. The modular gear straps can be used to attach skis, snowboard or crampons.

Picture 1.U44 JKT MAN

Wild Country

It features a technology based on bio-sourced fibers made from sugar cane waste that is then converted into bio-sourced polyester. Its Dryplay membrane and Teflon EcoElite PFC-free treatment offers waterproofness, its waterproof zips protect against moisture.

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2.MT XPORE JKT WOMAN

Lightweight and comfortable sport climbing harness. It guarantees total freedom of movement and has a soft but abrasion resistant fabric. Fixed and stretch leg loops for maximum comfort. Wear indicator integrated on the service ring.

Flexible and breathable, this 3-layer jacket offers freeriders and ski touring enthusiasts protection for all types of weather. Lightweight, fast drying, eco-friendly and non-toxic. YKK seams and zippers are fully waterproof to keep moisture out.

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Vaude

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MONVISO INSUL ATION JACKE T WOMAN

NIMBUS MAN JACKET

Lightweight and technical ski touring jacket with high thermal performance made of recycled polyester. PrimaLoft Cross Core technology is more than 50% warmer. Lightweight and foldable, ideal for demanding alpine ski tours.

Garment designed and developed in collaboration with professional climbers from Ragni di Lecco. 3-0 layers jacket that features taped seams, waterproof zip, 2-way adjustable helmet and cuffs and internal mesh storage pockets.

Super Natural M COMPOUND QUARTER

Model made of Merino wool with an alpine styles that will get you in the mood for active days on the slopes and chilly days in a mountain hut. Be ready to welcome winter with open arms.

Topo AT H L E T I C U LT R AV E N T U R E 2

Ideal both for light trails and long walks. The fit is firm in the heel and in the central part, the breathable engineered mesh upper offers a comfortable and secure fit while the Vibram XS Trek EVO sole gives traction on technical trails.

Trezeta

Alba SOLO BLK KING ANGLED

Designed for a prolonged use and multi-day excursions. VZUM lenses, central vent in the frame and slots along the top of the lenses that allow heat and steam to escape. Telescopic temple tips can be adjust in 4 different positions.

Z E TA M I D W P

Lightweight and versatile shoe to wear in any situation. The quality of the materials combines performance and style in a multifunction model. Waterproof suede upper that ensures resistance. Vibram Ecostep sole that facilitates the rolling of the foot.

Uyn

Blue Ice

UYNNER BOOT

H A R FA N G

Seamless shoe with knitted structure in Merino wool, suitable for facing the snow or for relaxing after a day on skis. The intelligent Membrain 115 is waterproof and breathable. The Vibram sole gives traction on slippery surfaces.

An excellent balance between performance, weight and packability. Designed with a fully automatic binding system, it fits all ski and ski touring sizes. The main strap flexible linking system minimizes bulk and offers a real compactness.

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Kayland 1 . A L P H A K N I T G T X Lightweight and breathable,

it is a shoe designed for light and fast hiking on mixed and challenging terrains. Knitted upper with a contemporary design, Gore-Tex Invisible Fit membrane and Vibram Multiverse sole for greater safety during climbing.

2 . S T I N G E R G T X Ideal for fast hiking and trekking.

It features a mesh upper with seamless polyurethane applications that give breathability. The Gore-Tex Extended Comfort lining and the Vibram Multiverse sole are ideal for mixed terrain with demanding loads.

Redelk Women's full zip jacket from the Outdoor Life collection, designed for those who want to wear an outdoor style every day. Made in Italy and made of wool blend with an original texture, windproof wool for shoulders and hood and sides in power stretch. 1.HANNI

2 . H E L M U T Men's full zip jacket designed for

an everyday outdoor style. Made in Italy and made of wool blend with windproof thermal protection. Soft shell shoulders and power-stretch sides that give comfort and a sporty fit. Zipped pockets.

Rossignol

Salomon

WNDR

Voelk

E X P E R I E N C E 8 6 T I Ski

Q S T 9 8 A powerful ski ca-

V I T A L 1 0 0 Its construction

RISE

with Drive Tip technology at the tip that combined with sidecut and profiles makes it more balanced. The poplar wood core comes only from PEFC certified forests and the energy used for its construction comes from non-fossil sources.

pable of tackling the entire mountain. The modern shape makes it highly versatile while the double side technology ensures edge grip and power transmission. The Cork Damplifier gives stability even at high speed.

utilizes materials derived from algae, which deliver better edge hold, stability and durability across a diverse range of backcountry terrains.

B E Y O N D 9 6 Lightweight model, only 1262g in size 170cm, thanks to the use of quality materials. A versatile ski that's perfect for advanced skiers looking for a lightweight climbing model that gives its best on powder.

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Bollé TORUS

A toric-shaped mask that guarantees a wide field of view without optical distortions. The large toric lens combined with the optimized ventilation system prevents the risk of fogging. Available with the Volt high contrast lens.

Helly Hansen

Ternua

O D I N I N F I N I T Y I N S U L AT E D J AC K E T Padded shell for mountain acti-

KUSOFIT MAN

vities in cold conditions. Lifa Infinity Pro technology offers a new standard of sustainability for waterproof and breathable fabrics. In addition, the solution-dyed technology eliminates dangerous chemicals.

Warm, multi-activity hybrid trousers/ leggings made of recycled bi-elastic polyamide from Redcycle fishing nets and post-consumer material. Ergonomic and slim fit pattern, they provide a high level of comfort and freedom of movement.

Jones S H R A L P I N I S T 3 L G O R E -T E X P R O J A C K E T This jacket will keep you comfor-

table in uncomfortable situations so you can give the mountains the focus they demand. It features a body mapped Gore-Tex fabric design and Gore-Tex Pro fabric made with 100% recycled nylon face fabric with dyed backer.

Atomic

Tecnica

ATK

HAWK PRIME 130 XTD

COCHISE

FREERAIDER 16

Boot ideal for both the track and freeriding-mountaineering. The Prolite construction offers greater strength with less weight, the Mimic Platinum liner is customizable. The Gripwalk sole gives comfort when walking as well as high performance downhill.

Ideal both on and off the track. The DYN inserts and the walking mode allow you to climb anywhere and guarantee excellent performance. Available in multiple flex levels, it features C.A.S. that adapts the boot to the shape of the foot.

The tip allows an easy step-in while the vertical release (9-16) is managed by the Cam Release System which gives better stabilization. The locking mechanisms are protected from ice and debris thanks to the Snow Pack Proof System.

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Schöffel J A C K E T S A S S M A O R L Ski touring jacket with ClimAir collar that acts as air conditioning in any weather conditions ensuring that perspiration and warm air are drawn directly from the inside to the outside. The innovative 3-layer jacket made of Gore-Tex offers protection. 3L

Saucony

Blizzard

Dynastar

Elan

Z E RO G 0 95 ( F L AT )

SPEED

9 6 3 From the renewed Speed range comes this handy and precise “carving machine”. The all-new construction combines a hybrid poplar wood core with polyurethane and V-TECH technology to ensure power, control and agility.

RIPSTICK 106

Kastle

Ideal for every backcountry adventure. Carbon Drive 2.0 paired with an ultralight paulownia woodcore ensure efficiency on the track, while maintaining strength, a solid edge grip and a stable feel for the descent.

Lightweight construction with a smooth ride and powerful rebound, it offers an uncompromised versatility both in the resort and in the backcountry. The carbon reinforcements over the inside edges add power and stability at high speeds.

T R A I L Light but cushioned shoe that allows you to tackle even the most difficult trails. It has a high support, a cushioning system and a mesh that guarantees protection even over long distances. The comfortable fit offers extreme protection. ENDORPHIN

The perfect choice for advanced or expert skiers who want to experience the thrill of the snowpark. The carbon, spruce and poplar core gives power and rebound. Full camber and rocker profile ensures edge stability and grip. RECKONER

Scott L I N E C H A S E R Freeriding inspired line

equipped with the new waterproof and breathable three layers DRYOspun membrane. Minimalist and lightweight, it balances performance and style thanks to the solid color that gives a cool look to this versatile kit.

102

F X 9 6 T I The 3D shape,

the triple wood core and the titanium inserts translate into stability and perfect buoyancy. In combination with Hollowtech 3.0, this ski is only slightly heavier than its predecessor and offers maximum power transmission.

Dynafit Lightweight uphill and highly stable downhill. The sidewall construction allows di-rect power transmission to the ski edge. The poplar core is synonymous with cushioning and versatility in off-piste. RADICAL

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Garmont V E T TA T EC H GT X

Montura

Musto

SKYSKY 2.0 JACKET

E VO LUT I ON NE WPO RT OSM PR I MALO F T PARK A

Padded jacket ideal for various outdoor and leisure activities. 2-layer nylon fabric with a DWR treatment, ultra-light Comfortemp polyester padding, hood with a tight band on the front and reflective applications for greater visibility.

Precise and lightweight approach boot. The mid cut protects the ankle ensuring flexibility and stability. Upper in suede leather with ultra-light eFoam inserts, waterproof Gore-Tex Extended Comfort membrane and Michelin sole.

Designed in collaboration with 11th Hour Racing, this parka is constructed from One Single Material (OSM) which makes it much easier to recycle at the end of its life. Highly insulating thanks to PrimaLoft Silver Eco technology.

On C L O U D U LT R A

Ideal for the toughest terrains. Designed for ultramarathons, long trail runs and off-road training sessions, it offers cushioning and support. A connected midsole increases impact protection while a closed Missiongrip outsole guarantees a rock-free run.

Alpina G E M S Lightweight and ventilated freeri-

ding helmet, safe in every situation, even on immaculate descents and off-beaten paths. Comfort and safety are its two crucial characteristics. It features an internal padding and a removable earmuff.

Smith QUANTUM MIPS

Helmet with Boa system, Mips protective technology and Koroyd construction, it provides greater protection in side impact areas. The new Wayfinder Strap System with Fidlock is very functional and allows for a quick adjustment.

Snow Peak

Zamberlan

AMENITY DOME

HALF DOME VELCRO

Designed for luxurious campsite living, this six-person tent offers a roomy sleeping area and an asymmetric porch to accommodate camping gear. It also features ample ventilation, internal storage pockets and colour-coordinated poles for simple set-up.

High technical footwear ideal for approach and via ferrata but also perfect for trekking/hiking. Waterproof suede upper, flexible insole and Vibram Pepe sole adherent on different types of terrain.

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Flaxta S P A C E Hybrid construction with mold technology and core made of 100% recycled EPS that guarantees the highest level of protection. Also available with integrated MIPS technology, the helmet allows good ventilation and offers easy adjustment. DEEP

Gregory

CMP

TA RG H E E FA ST T RAC K 24

GIACCA IBRIDA UNLIMITECH

Backpack designed for a fast transition from uphill to harvesting pow. The FastTrack ski carry system allows you to stow skis without removing your pack and securely stores essentials ensuring you’re equipped for multiple laps.

Hybrid jacket to better face winter and snow activities. The front padding in PrimaLoft Black Insulation ThermoPlume in recycled polyester gives warmth, softness and compressibility, the stretch inserts ensure freedom of movement.

Icebug ARCUS BUGRIP GTX

Hanwag

A waterproof running shoe for winter running and trail running. It comes with a 6mm drop, a lot of cushioning and 13 carbide tip steel studs for traction on all surfaces.

1 0 0 Triple-stitched model made of 3mm thick tanned “Russian” leather able to accompany the wearer for a lifetime. Upper and seams are guaranteed for life. Included with the product there are two coupons to resole the shoe for free. SEPP

Chiruca VERONA

Multipurpose boot made of Nubuck leather. It features a Gore-Tex membrane that provides optimal climatic comfort. Phylon midsole and Vibram Fuga outsole with Megagrip compound for an excellent grip.

Dachstein

Cébé

ARCTIC PEAK MC GTX

Ventilated helmet that keeps the head cool without damaging aerodynamics and protection. The Ultra Venting System allows you to raise the top by a 4 degree angle to maximize air flow without compromising safety.

Snow and ice resistant model suitable for winter hiking. The Gore-Tex membrane keep the feet dry while the Vibram Arctic Grip outsole provides perfect traction on any surface.

V E R S AT I L E

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Adidas OUTDOOR TERREX AGRAVIC U L T R A It balances power and speed to

deliver unrivalled freedom of movement that excels on technical mountain trails. It features a combination of Boost and Lightstrike technology and a Continental outsole that provides a snug feel and great control.

Komperdell C A R B O N C 2 U LT R A L I G H T

Extremely light and adjustable telescopic ski touring pole. Made of carbon, thanks to the Powerlock 3.0 mechanism in anodized aluminum it is easily adjustable in length. Ergonomic Touring Foam 280 grip.

Osprey 5 Minimalist winter backpack small enough to be worn under a jacket. Designed to withstand harsh conditions, it's made of bluesign approved high tenacity durable nylon and a PFC-free DWR coating. GLADE

Oxyburn T O U C H Sock that increases resistance in

Rab

Rewoolution

ARC ECO JACKET

EXPLORER

It features the new 3-layer Pertex Shield Revolve fabric that is fully recycled and gives the opportunity to be recycled at the end of its life. This fabric with fluorocarbon-free DWR is soft, durable and comfortable to wear during every outdoor activities.

sports activities by providing muscle support and shortening recovery time. Merino wool keeps body temperature stable, ensuring antibacterial and sanitizing properties.

Long-sleeved T-shirt characterized by ergonomic cuts based on the body-mapping that define the body line. It offers all the advantages of Reda Active Merino jersey technical fabric, extremely performing in terms of comfort and warmth.

Samaya A S S A U T 2 U LT R A

Petzl

Assault tent for winter expeditions in the most extreme weather conditions. The walls are made of a 2-layer laminated fabric resulting from the combination of Dyneema Composite Fabric and an ePTFE membrane that guarantees waterproofness and breathability.

Harness that offers an incredible combination of ultra-reduced bulk and weight, and great versatility and usability, ensuring the required functionality, but at a weight reduced to a mere 90 grams. F LY

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Arva C A L G A R Y 1 8 Backpack with avalanche

airbag designed in an eco-friendly way and made from recycled fabrics. The comfortable and water-resistant thermoformed backrest allows for better load distribution and the possibility to transport skis.

Haglöfs

Eagle Creek

NORDIC EXPEDITION DOWN HOOD M A N Get ready for your next Nordic expe-

CARGO HAULER XT WHEELED DUFF E L 9 0 L Ultra-tough and versatile duf-

dition! Filled with a unique combination of premium hydrophobic down and graphene-infused Mimic Platinum, it delivers an outstanding warmth-to-weight ratio with zero cold spots and true breathability.

fel. It can be carried like a backpack, wheeled around town or hoisted by its padded top haul handles for ultimate flexibility. It features an extra durable, water repellent fabric for maximum durability.

Julbo Q U I C K S H I F T Goggles with Switch Air

System ventilation technology and Reactiv Glare Control lens ideal for freetouring. Lightweight and resistant, it adapts to variations in brightness by automatically lightening or darkening.

Calze GM 1 4 0 3 S K I A L P P O W E R Top of the range

sock dedicated to athletes, a perfect combination of lightweight and technical performance. Breathable and thin for maximum foot sensitivity with boots and skis. It features an anti-abrasion reinforcement and a stabilizing elastic band.

Dynafit Shell in a blend of Grilamid and carbon fibers and carbon cuff to achieve maximum stiffness and very low weight. The new locking system is intuitive and quick. The new thermoformable liner gives a snug fit. DNA

Karpos

Devold

MARMAROLE TECH JACKET

TUVEGGA SPORT AIR

A hybrid jacket ideal for many winter activities. Made with natural down to provide warmth and lightness, windproof Cordura that offers excellent abrasion resistance and Polartec Thermal Pro for an unmatched feeling of softness.

Suitable for high intensity activities where thermal insulation and the ability to regulate body temperature are important. The flat surface offers efficient moisture transport and high breathability when worn close to the skin.

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Leki P A T R O L 3 D Both the outer layer and the

Marmot

Millet

MITRE PEAK JACKET

H E R I TAG E D OW N J AC K E T

The use of two different Gore-Tex membranes creates a jacket that expands its application horizon. Gore-Tex 3-layer laminate in the stressed areas such as cuffs, elbows and shoulders while Gore-Tex Active is used on body, hood and back for great breathability.

Very warm down jacket part of the new M-100 Heritage collection, entirely made of recycled materials and insulation. Compressible, with reinforced inserts on shoulders and elbows, it features an adjustable hood, full zip and two handwarmer pockets.

palm are in goatskin. The neoprene cuff prevents the cold from entering while the Nash silicone finish ensures optimal grip. The joints of the fingers offer more flexibility.

Meindl LITE HIKE GTX

Marker

All-round sports boot for every outdoor activities. It adapts perfectly to the foot thanks to the Variofix and Duo lacing systems. The shock absorbing EVA sole features a new rubber compound composed of 22% recycled rubber.

A L P I N I S T 1 2 Binding with DIN adjust-

ment up to 12 ideal for touring. It is robust and ultra lightweight, suitable for all outdoor adventures in the high mountains.

Mons Royale

Liv

Lowe

L S M A R I N A B L A C K Street-inspired model with a comfortable fit, perfect to be worn as a first or second layer. Made of Merino fabric, it has an integrated hood useful on windy days or on fresh snow.

C E F I R A Windproof and water-repellent

ALPINE

YOTEI

model with zipped rear pockets that ensure your belongings. This jacket is the perfect size to tuck into a jersey pocket or pack for those unexpected weather conditions.

D E P O T 2 5 Ideal backpack for all outdoor activities. The ergonomic structure ensures a comfortable fit. It features a 15” laptop compartment, tablet sleeve, stretch fabric side pockets and 2 internal zipped security pockets.

The fragility of nature T E X T A N D P H OTO S BY DAV I D O R T N E R

It's quite a long way up to the alpine area. The campervan drags itself slowly and laboriously up the mountains. After a while the valley narrows to a gorge and I can see how far into the valley the glaciers once reached. My friend and I keep going, nearly over 1 hour until we advance into the glacier area. We arrive later, the day close to the evening and we are allowed to spend the night up here. And it's great up here. No, it's breathtaking. We are alone. No one is out there this night besides us. During a little snowstorm we dug ourselves a hole to enjoy some time during this natural spectacle. After the storm, it is quiet up here, almost silent. The fresh snow swallows all the noise and everything is covered by a white blanket. The snow reflects the light of our flashlights and also the moonlight makes us a bright lightbulb that illuminates this place and completes the magical atmosphere. A quiet creak can be heard, while we carefully explore the surrounding area up here and leave our footprints in the deep snow. Spending the night in the mountains has something peaceful and it feels so real. Yes, I can say, I feel alive! The cold air that flows through my lungs and body is refreshing and has a cleaning effect, I throw off the everyday life, the rush, the confusion of civilization and cities.

The beauty of nature fills my heart and pacifies my mind.Mother Earth is a truly great artist. The glacier we visit is not as heavily frequented as others, the winding path through the valley is too far away from the beaten paths and has not as many kilometers of slopes as other areas. But for

us it is an area for real snow enthusiasts. When we set out on the next morning to finally shred a few kilometers on our skis, we discover it. The end of the glacier. Far up in the mountains. Close to the summit we want to be. It no longer extends to the valley, where it once dug all the furrows and created the basis for the reservoir. Time has drawn him back. Let him melt. Bit by bit. The transience of all life becomes clear here and it becomes clear how something new awakens afterwards. The glacier left fertile land behind. Space for Tyrolean spruce and stone pine and for the animals that have their home here. Every end is also a beginning. As we come closer to the glacier we had to look twice. The glacier cannot be seen in its own beauty. It is covered by something that looks like a towel. The towel should protect him. Help him, before melting too fast and to prevent him from irreparable damage. Before disappearing. This awful towel should help him to get through the warm months so as not to lose substance completely. We take away his beauty to protect him. I would guess, that we as humans, can no longer stop or reverse this process. I believe we can only do our part to slow it down and reduce our footprint in

the hope that we will buy a little more time for our children's future. Maybe we should no longer act like a bull in a china shop, but rather like a cat on velvet paws. This should make us all think about how to proceed as I see the glacier so vulnerable there. What future do we shape for our children? What heritage do we belong to and how do our words and, above all, our actions shape our environment and our children's minds? I am not a meteorologist, a biologist or a scientist in general. The world we life in is not easy. Neither black nor white. Neither good nor bad. Aren't we all in a struggle with our values and with what was and how we are? In the struggle between our demands and reality. Don’t we not all want sustainability and the preservation of nature and at the same time to share this journey, exploration, experience and the important moments with our loved ones? How do we manage to live a balanced life without breaking nature? I am a father who wants to give his children a future that is worth living. I am someone who will travel and share experiences with my children. But I am also aware that, as part of everything, we are also part of what concerns our nature. I don't have a simple solution, and I don't know if there is really one. I will set a good example for my children and show the beauty of things, moments, uniqueness, fragility of nature and sharpen their awareness for it, as good as I can. Breath the fresh air and feel the spirit of freedom.

Simon Messner T E X T S I LV I A G A L L I A N I

P H OTO S M AT T EO M O C E L L I N

Extreme cold, a stinging, acute and dry chilliness. The typical climate of those walls that never see the sun. Simon Messner stands in front of an ice waterfall. He knows what awaits him: a tough day, short and intense. Just the kind of days he likes.

Ice is a special element. It may seem motionless and perennial. But in fact, ice never has the same shape as it shifts, changes in density and appearance day after day. And that same waterfall that you may have only explored a year ago may no longer exist today. An increase of just a few degrees in temperature is enough to wipe it off the face of the earth forever. It remains only in our memories. We are in Val di Travenanzes, a valley in the Dolomites in the province of Belluno. Crossed by the Rio Travenanzes, the valley is about 10km long and lies between the Tofane group to the east and the the peaks of Lagazuoi, Fanes and Furcia Rossa to the west. The walk to the icefall is long and mostly in the shade. Simon left early today, ironic for a person who calls himself a “laggard”. But when Simon says he’s late he refers to his love for climbing. Mountains have always obviously been very present in the Messner family. An almost everyday topic and therefore too natural to be interesting for a kid like Simon. At 16, however, late by the standards of his own family, Simon di-

scovers mountaineering and climbing, and the situation changes quickly. Simon looks at the icefall, he just has to check his gears. The ice screws must be checked meticulously before racking them on the harness and the blades on his tools must be straight. Climbing on ice is certainly very tiring, but from his first day on the wall it always seemed natural to Simon Messner. As natural is for those who spend a lot of their time in the mountains. When you love to climb at a certain point the encounter with ice is inevitable. At first it seems an insurmountable, dangerous obstacle. But it doesn't take you much to decide to leave your comfort zone and go. And after the first attempt you find out that generally where there’s ice you can pass, and you can also have a lot of fun. It was just a moment of reflection, Simon is now ready to face the ice fall. He starts to climb with a constant rhythm, the controlled and repetitive movements become, little by little, like those actions that you normally do without thinking. Like breathing. Simon is calm

as he climbs up. Ice climbing has taught him several things over the years. So many aspects that we often consider as a limit he now sees them as a possibility. He sees beyond this cold, difficult and tiring wall of ice, to the point of transfiguring it and transforming it into the gateway to worlds of rare beauty. However, this awareness also leaves room for bitter reflection. The exploration of these landscapes leaves behind only lived experiences.

The impact of human activities on the global climate, in fact, risks obliterating those worlds of rare beauty forever. Experiencing beauty and imagining its loss is a powerful driver for change, a push to try to reverse the trend before it's too late. And what's could be more sustainable than trying to preserve the potential of the mountain experiences for future generations?

Purple & Green TEXT FILIPPO CAON

P H OTO F E D E R I C O R AVAS SA R D

I have two sleeping bags. A purple one and a green one. The purple one is cheap, rather bulky and quite cold. It's one hundred percent synthetic, I have no idea how long it will last, but like all synthetic products when it will be time to throw it away, it will pollute the world. The green one, on the other hand, is quite expensive, it is warm and lightweight. The padding is in certified goose down, which means that the supply chain is traced and that we can assume that the geese have been treated in an acceptable way, at least until they have been killed to fill a sleeping bag. The green one seems to be longer-lived, although sooner or later its time will come and at that point its feathers will return to be ashes, while the rest of the sleeping bag, although less than its purple brother, will pollute the world a little. My plastic bottles will do the same. My jacket and its nonrecyclable zipper, the leather of the climbing shoes, the waterproof membrane of the boots, the insoles of the skis, the ropes, etc. Sooner or later, all that stuff will pollute the world. But if there is one thing that we outdoor lovers do not lack, it is a bit of a green conscience. And to justify all this we started writing down the unlikely, justifying unjustifiable products protected by what we call compromise. Compromise is a beautiful invention that we can no longer do without. The compromise widens by half a meter the precipitous dirt road on a Pakistan ravine we are driving on, giving us a little more freedom of movement. You can call it common sense, if you want. So, thanks to the compromise the green sleeping bag becomes better than the purple one (from an ethical point of view of course, not technical). It becomes the most reasonable choice. It is a compromise that, at the very least, makes us feel less guilty. And hardly anyone will ever blame us for taking this choice. Of course, maybe someone will think about it for a while, but he will dismiss the matter by shrugging, because c'est la vie.

But if there is one thing that even the most cynical person in the world has, it is a moment of weakness. The moment where you give yourself away. You stand there picking up toothpaste from the sink with your toothbrush, and you start crying for something that has nothing to do with it, and all of a sudden it starts raining on everything: it rains on work, it rains on family, it rains on our choices, and on all the little things: our passions, our hobbies. And in that moment of weakness, of empty confusion, when it seems to you that someone has swept away the horizon with a sponge, a cloud moves and a ray of lucidity penetrates. It doesn't last long, but for that moment any social compromise loses its importance and things go back to being what they are: wrong choices. Anything, from the first to the last. The green sleeping bag and its certified down too. Then you go to bed. The following morning you’re looking at yourself in the mirror while flossing and everything is back to the way it was before. You have regained the reassuring peace of compromise. The green sleeping bag is once again the best choice. Some geese have lost their feathers, of course, but there was no alternative. Goose down is better than synthetic padding. Everybody knows it. Of course, you have to be careful with water. But what the fuck, it’s a mess recycling a synthetic bag! Compromise. Everyone chooses the chair he feels most comfortable on, nothing more. There are no ideological wars. Do you want to become like Dakota Fanning in American Pastoral who wears a veil over her mouth not to kill microorganisms in the air? Of course not. But that idea is always there, along with your wrong choices, stuck like a ball of cholesterol in the temporal vein. And it pulsates. A lot. Now. The matter can be explained in two ways. The first is quite stupid. Billy Bob Thornton sums it up well in Fargo: man eats man, we are all bad and the color we see more shades of is green to distinguish prey and predators. I don’t believe it. When he says it it sounds good. But it's a bullshit. The second way is

smarter. And it is that the conscience is never good. Which doesn't mean it's bad. It is never good because whatever action we take it deletes another one, even good choices have negative consequences. And the grams of microplastics we save and the good faith we can put into it won't change that fact.

Any choice, even the wisest, is a bad choice. But if you really think about it, it won’t make you sleep at night. Because once you've raised the issue, once you've swept away all the compromises, what do you do?

Start over to not rebuild On the night between December 5th and 6th, a big avalanche overwhelmed and destroyed the Pian dei Fiacconi hut. Marmolada represents a change, but only we really want it.

BY M AT T EO PAVA N A FOR THE OUTDOOR MANIFESTO

Anyone who has ever visited this place, even for just a few minutes, knows well how much for Guido owning a hut does not mean just serving a hot dish or a beer, but rather sharing visions, his ideas about the mountains. He does not simply manage a hut, but he guards it. He takes good care of it, in order to avoid any damage. Said more romantically, he looks after it, protects it. Always. “You have a thousand stories to tell when you live in a hut. One day, for example, a financier with a marked fascist attitude showed up. I went to the cashier and put on the song “Regurgito Antifascista” by the 99 Posse. I wanted to make him understand that although my hut is open to everyone, certain ideologies are not welcomed here. Another time some soldiers arrived and left their weapons in the common room, near the tables. I explained them that, in the following days, if they wanted to eat in the hut, they would have to leave their weapons at their camp. We are not at war and weapons must not stand close to people”.

One day exposing yourself became unseemly. Another day the word "expose" lost its real meaning. Exposing yourself does not mean telling people to mind their own business, it does not mean showing off. Exposing yourself means facing a situation and accepting that other people may have a positive or negative opinion about something. The reaction can therefore be positive, negative or quite particular. When you expose yourself it is obvious that you risk jeopardizing your image or your alleged reputation. But it is also true that “no pain no gain". Guido is a guy who is not afraid to expose himself. I think that’s clear. His love for Marmolada has lasted for more than half of his life. It is a love that he shares daily with his partner and with his children. It is a love for the mountains that he has been defending for years from exploitation by those who believe that nature is something to be used rather than protected, to speculate on rather than safeguard.

Human beings are or should be responsible for what they do. On September 15th, 2019 the historic Graffer lift, that connected Fedaia pass with Pian Dei Fiacconi, made its last run after 45 years of service, from 1974. Five months ago Guido launched a petition on change.org to free Marmolada from all obsolete and abandoned structures that strip the beauty of a wild environment. Human beings are or should be responsible for what they don’t do. Kierkegaard expressed it in a very accurate philosophical way: “a non-choice is in any case a choice”. Ignoring what is happening in Marmolada is ignoring our own animal part, that attachment to nature and the values it represents. Guido went against his own interests by fighting for years for an alternative, conscious, sustainable tourism. In love, because it is love we’re talking about, a non-choice is not contemplated. “No pain no gain” indeed. Nature mocks love. Nature also mocks history, because nature is history. On the night between December 5th and 6th a big avalanche overwhelmed the Pian dei Fiacconi hut. The avalanche started from punta Rocca and punta Penia and trampled on the efforts of those who, in twenty years of activity, have simply given everything to the mountain. Yet true foresight lies where the light seems to fade, true strength lies when you feel overwhelmed.

Guido doesn't want to just rebuild his hut. He doesn't want to rebuild a bigger, more technological, more modern hut. Guido wants this event to be the source of change for all of us. Guido would like Marmolada to be truly the Queen of the Dolomites. The Pian dei Fiacconi hut must only be the starting point for broader reasoning and dreams that know how to go beyond the mountain development we already know and which has clearly demonstrated its failure. Everyone's help is important, not only an economic one but also, and above all, we need ideas, visions, proposals and collaborations. It is important to be there and to get involved in order to start being part of something different. Something to develop according to common and alternative ideas. Something that can demonstrate that a different path is really possible. Because ideas, dreams and visions can also resist avalanches. From today we start to rebuild something even more significant and resistant. Something that leaves a mark, without a trace. to be continued…

Nature mocks love. Nature also mocks history, because nature is history.

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Few Lines TEXT AND PHOTOS BY CAMILLA PIZZINI

“Skiing is like dancing, it has its own rhythm that flows continuously, it creates indistinguishable yet precise lines, you just have to find your way to perceive it.” One day, when I was a child and I was learning to ski, my mother told me: “Skiing is like dancing, it has its own rhythm that flows continuously, it creates indistinguishable yet precise lines, you just have to find your way to perceive it.” It took me a few years to fully understand those words. A preamble of consumption and passions. I could say that I have spent more days of my life on skis and lifts than sitting on a chair at school. Not that I didn't get a diploma and then a degree, I just skied a lot. Lots of towers, lots of stages, lots of training sessions, on the glacier in the summer, in Austria, France, on the Stelvio and lots of races around the region and throughout Italy. If you were wondering what the life of a ski athlete is like, it could be summed up into: “Sometimes you feel more comfortable wearing a pair of boots and a pair of skis in the cold than strolling thorough the streets of your own city”. During this continuous hectic pace of descents and ascents between one run and the other, I never doubted how problematic and polluting ski resorts were. There was no reason for me to have any doubt about it, I had other problems: “Keep the outer knee less closed”, “You’re going to fall if you ski like that”, “Where the hell are you keeping your arms?”, “Don’t stand so straight

otherwise you’ll fly away”. So, year after year, I spent lot of hours on the icy seats of the lifts instead of actually skiing. I think that happened to all alpine skiers who love snow. We have lost, since the birth of this passion, the conception of this disproportion. Ten minutes of descent, if it was a good day, fifteen minutes of ascent, minimum. An enormous amount of time invested, lost between one test and another, a modest dose of pollution emitted around the world. I should also consider artificial snow, but this story isn't just about pollution, so as far as guilts and past mistakes are concerned, I'll stop here. Only recently and only after many injuries, I discovered ski mountaineering. Seven years ago, the first time I heard about it, I thought, “All this struggle just to go down a slope? Very appealing. No thanks, I'm fine without it.” Five years later, there I was with skins under my skis, not convinced at all to throw myself into that adventure. How wrong I was. Every part of a curve has its own rhythm, you just have to follow it. Two years later, here I am again, with my skis on, very passionate about ski mountaineering. The virus has closed all the lifts. If you want to ski you have to struggle and we didn't expect anything else. “Did you bring the camera? The Artva? Will the shelter be open for a beer?” and off we go.

It never took me so long to get to Grosté, thinking back to the times where the lifts were open and it took me fifteen minute to reach it. And yet, step by step, starting from the city center of Madonna di Campiglio, we reached the top. Not a big deal, tiring? Yes, but it is not the Everest. Yet, taking those many steps I realized that I had never looked forward to a descent so anxiously, and never before I had understood that, perhaps, the most important thing about a curve is not the way I make it, but what led me to make it in that way. I still believe that every curve is perfect and imprecise in its being. Every skier looks for the best balance, stability, fun and precision in the curve and in the ones that follow it. Yet in years of trying and training, I never doubted how vain, repetitive and profoundly devoid of rhythm all those curves were. My continuous descents were part of a mechanism that deprived the skier of the satisfaction, of the pleasure of conquest. I was a hamster in an endless wheel. Climbing along the Grosté hills I contemplated what surrounded me and saw many lines and many more or less perfect semicircles, and there I saw the rhythm, the continuous circle of that dance, of that flow that I was trying to understand so much, those lines indistinguishable yet precise.

Dolomitiche

2.020 BY MAT TEO PAVANA

Because exploring means living, and viceversa. Because exploring is subjective. Because something explored does not necessarily coincide with its end. Because something explored can be a new beginning. Especially in a year like the one just passed. Especially and above all for the year that will come. Does exploring exclusively concern something unknown? “If you want to live, you have to explore”. It is the kind of sentence that I often repeat to myself and that arouses in me a great sense of restlessness. It is a ritual that punctually takes place the moment before going to bed and in the morning when I wake up. In both of those moments I teleport over the ceiling and think, but I can't put into words what I think. I just stay there, together with that emptiness. It is a feeling that one day found its outlet in a block letters on a sheet of paper that I hung on a small bulletin board in the kitchen. I wrote: “Open the door and go”. It reminds me that everything I need is close at hand, out there, everywhere, even during a time when moving was and still is dangerous, for others and for ourselves. “Open the door and go” is a mantra, a belief. Everything and nothing is now explorable. The unknown is subjective and objective at the same time: it is ours when we want. The unknown is where it is not. Exploration is the lens in the sun: it blinds, collects and burns. You can explore the earth, the sky, people, the petals of a flower, shoelaces, a cigarette, even the bottom of a glass. Everything exists when the eyes are sponges to absorb and not mirrors to reflect. Do you know what I see when I open my front door? I see the Dolomites.

“Dolomites are just a small piece of land, however extraordinary, in the heart of Europe. Over the millennia these narrow and isolated valleys, protected and surrounded by rugged mountains and rocky walls, have witnessed dozens of migratory waves and given refuge to people from all over the world. Until days ago, forests and pastures stolen from the rock offered a small support to poor and marginalized communities, in constant struggle for survival. Fortunately for us, today the whole world has noticed the enchanting beauty of these peaks, and tourism has brought more and more wealth and opportunities. We can say that our privileged lifestyle is a direct consequence of the freedom of movement granted to populations. In an era like the present one where we talk too often and too lightly about erecting impassable walls or borders, to stop people and force them within pre-established borders, perhaps we do not realize enough of the immense fortune that characterizes us as European citizens, to be able to move far and wide, anywhere, as we want. Without submitting any request, without having to hope to obtain visas or authorizations, without even having to consider the problem”. This is what my friend Ale Beber wrote about the Dolomites. Recently our paths crossed again in a project that I’m glad I was able to support as a climbing and working partner. This summer our freedom, albeit limited, has made its way between these mountains. This is more or less the story of DoloMITICHE 2.020.

First of all, you need to know that Ale has always seemed older than he actually is. Maybe because he became a Mountain Guide when he was only twenty-two. Maybe because he dresses with a humility of yesteryear and has some problems with modern technology. Or simply because I have always seen him as an older brother to learn from, a mentor to draw inspiration from, a guide in every sense. His passion draws and engages. Whether it was a climbing route, a wild territory worth seeing or, more simply, a new musical group to listen to, it was enough to pick up the phone and call him or, better, go climbing together. Ale is that kind of guy who knows how to be loved by everyone. It is probably thanks to his sense of aggregation, sharing and gratitude towards everything that is beautiful. Ale is passionate, he likes to live things to the fullest and give those things a meaning. Being a Mountain Guide, for example, has never been just a profession to make a living out of it. Being a Mountain Guide can mean many more things than “taking people to the mountain”. On the other hand, I don't even believe that for him it is the mission of his life. Being a Mountain Guide for him means going beyond convention. It means playing, having fun. Perhaps it is precisely when we are having fun among the rocks that ideas are born, projects take on consistency, something new and beautiful is created. He had done it ten years ago.

DoloMITICHE was born with the aim of revealing at least a small part of the “outdoor museum” that are the Dolomites, a map of routes dreamed and drawn by mountaineers from all over the world.

He did it again this year, at a time when living in a nearby mountain was indeed a moral obligation, but fortunately also a privilege. After 30 routes on the Trentino mountains in 2011, Ale resumed his tour and went to the Belluno , South Tyrol and Friulian Dolomites, to repeat some of the most significant routes in the various areas, obviously meeting the protagonists of those climbs and trying to understand something more than just the vertical heritage they have left, but also their vision, their philosophy. DoloMITICHE was born with the aim of revealing at least a small part of the “outdoor museum” that are the Dolomites, a map of routes dreamed and drawn by mountaineers from all over the world. “Dolomites rock carcasses but eternal offsprings celestial abysses for our shared selfishness the game of mountaineering.” There has therefore been no better or worse year than this one to take up the game of proximity mountaineering, of rediscovery. We started from Moiazza, visited the Carnic Alps, then took a not-too-trivial excursion to the Torre d’Alleghe, before moving on to the Fassane Dolomites and the kingdom of Fanes.

Everything with just one rule: explore the explored. The first excursion was to the Via Verri-Calabretto, also known as Via Precisa, at the Scalet delle Mesenade in Moiazza, opened in 1989 by Pierangelo Verri and Roberto Calabretto. We were lucky enough to repeat it together with the first openers 31 years later. The second route was one of the pillars of Carnic mountaineering, the famous Via dei Carnici on the Crete delle Cjanevate opened by Roberto Mazzilis and Roberto Simonetti in 1983 and repeated with the stainless Mazzilis. The journey then took us on Via Gogna-Pellegrinon to Torre del Formenton, in the Marmolada - Ombretta group, in the company of Alessandro Gogna 51 years after his ascent. The fourth stage was an icon of Dolomites mountaineering: the Via Bellenzier on the Torre d’Alleghe. The route takes its name from its opener Domenico Bellenzier who, alone, opened the route on the north side of the Civetta. A truly remarkable achievement in a hostile environment. The difficulty of the route was immediately certified by the first repeaters: Heini Holzer and Reinhold Messner. The latter described it as “a first-rate route, one of the most beautiful in the Civetta group”. Further confirmation of the technical level came from the repetition of Manolo, who was the first to evaluate it as VII+.

In our humble opinion the most important pitch could be a VIII. The last stage, as well as the arrival of our journey, was the Via Ey de Net at the Parei de Col Bechei which, after the Via Raieta, is the second route opened on the fantastic face of the Tofana di Rozes. This leap into the recent past with words and photos has a taste of discovery, of nostalgic exploration for me. 2020 was the year that redefined the concept of freedom. There have never been so many prohibitions, so many restrictions that defined our possibility of dreaming or, more simply, our own mental health. However, 2020 was the year in which we were not necessarily forced to settle, but rather to re-tune ourselves, to leave room for a new awareness. It was an unusual summer, an unusually beautiful summer. So… Does exploring exclusively concern something unknown? To answer this question maybe you have to open the door and go, and usually the rest follows. Note: DoloMITICHE 2.020 would not have been possible without the help, financial or otherwise, of all those people who believed in the desire to do beautiful things in a not so beautiful historically moment. Ale says thanks to all of you. And I say the same.

Zermatt to Verbier TEXT ANNA SMOOTHY

PHOTOS RUEDI FLUCK

The Faction Collective followed in the tracks of the mythic “Patrouille des Glaciers” race, across the high alpine traverse linking Zermatt to Verbier. Along the way, this team of freeriders skied some of the most impressive peaks in the Alps.

n the wake of Covid19, a unique scenario presented itself: to use the famed race route of the Patrouille des Glaciers as a vehicle to discover new peaks and big lines between Verbier and Zermatt. The team were conveniently plotted out on either side of the journey. In Zermatt was IFMGA Guide and freeride legend, Sam Anthamatten and in Verbier was Freeride World Tour competitors Elisabeth Gerritzen and Yann Rausis.

Setting out from Zermatt on a hot afternoon just two days after the Swiss lockdown finished, we traveled only as far as Schonbielhütte. The cabin was closed due to the virus, but the custodian had kindly given Sam a key, so we let ourselves in and made a pretty questionable meal from their kitchen’s dry stores. The next day’s 3am start came quickly, but what better way to wake than to descend the cliff face below the hut on a slippery and snowy via ferrata? We roped up and went on our way with our blood pumping, the crew was feeling very alert for the glacier crossings to come.

Through the years of freeriding competitions, Elise, Yann, Sam and I have skied together in different spots around the globe, but to discover new lines together in the mountains between our homes was truly special. On this trip, Sam’s guiding experience and knowledge of the area was invaluable for minimizing risk and maximizing the sick lines to ski.

As we paced it out to Arolla, we scoped out more lines to come back and tick off another time. Surrounded by beautiful 4000m peaks, it’s really difficult to stay on track and just keep going without distraction. The

5 and a half hour record times posted by modern-day Patrouille des Glaciers competitors are nothing short of a miracle, we mused that they must be wearing special glasses to block out the majesty that surrounds them so they can focus purely on their speed.

dition for skiing at this moment, but we proceeded to climb and ski every other aspect of it. We posted up at Cabane des Dix for a few days, climbing and skiing lines around La Ruinette, La Serpentine and of course, our friend Mont Blanc de Cheilon. By this time, the snow was melting quickly. Once we felt that we had exhausted all possible lines that were proximal to the Patrouille des Glaciers route and still in good condition, we decided to start on the final leg of the journey. As the rest of the ski touring population began to emerge from their lockdown hibernation, the mountains slowly started to get busier. As we toured towards our home in Verbier, we passed many smiling faces featuring pale confinement complexions and a renewed appreciation for the great outdoors, fresh air and freedom.

After a night in Arolla, we ski toured to Cabane des Dix, an idyllic hideaway nestled by the southern catchments of Lac des Dix. In addition to enjoying a mountain landscape empty of other ski tourers, we were lucky enough to also have the Cabane completely to ourselves. The team settled in, made a feast of paella and turned to the impressive mountains that surrounded the hut in order to plot our next move. Looming right over Cabane des Dix is the ominous north face of Mont Blanc de Cheilon. That particular face was not in con-

In the wake of Covid19, a unique scenario presented itself: to use the famed race route of the Patrouille des Glaciers as a vehicle to discover new peaks and big lines between Verbier and Zermatt.

The last winter challenge BY GIANLUCA GASCA

It is 4:57 pm in Pakistan on January 16th, 2021 when 10 Nepalese mountaineers (Nirmal Purja, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, Gelje Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, Dawa Tenjing Sherpa, Kili Pemba Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Sona Sherpa, Dawa Temba Sherpa , Pem Chhri Sherpa) hug themselves at the top of K2, writing the last chapter of a forty-one year long story, the one of winter Himalayas. In the 1979/80 season, the Poles managed to reach the summit of Everest in the heart of the cold season, since then some of the best mountaineers in the world have ventured into this challenge at the limits of human endurance. On Eight-thousanders, during winter, conditions can easily become extreme. Climbing means having patience and perfectly calculating the strategy. The windows of good weather are always too short and jet streams, high-speed masses of air that move from east to west, are an invisible enemy that you must learn how to deal with. Woe to be at high altitude when they hit the mountain, because they blow at 150 or more kilometers per hour. As the Eight-thousanders are climbed in the most fearful of seasons, the thoughts of the winter specialists move to K2. The Poles are always the first to try it, in the winter of 1987/1988 they found themselves at the foot of the mountain to attempt the climb along the Abruzzi Spur. Under the guidance of Andrzej Zawada, former Everest expedition leader, they managed to reach 7300 meters of altitude before giving up because of the many difficulties met. In 2002/2003 a small international expedition led by Krzysztof Wielicki tried again, then followed by the attempts of Russian mountaineers, another one from Basque Alex Txikon and again the Poles with a

large national expedition. In total, there were six expeditions that tried, in vain, to reach the summit of the second highest mountain on Earth in the heart of winter. In the 2019/2020 season, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, one of the 10 record-breaking Nepali, makes his appearance at the base camp. It is a first sign of a change, which the last winter season brings us back in a marked and decisive way: from humble porters, Sherpas have become prominent protagonists on the highest mountains on Earth.

10 Nepali on the top of K2 They waited for each others a few meters below the summit, they waited to be all together before going on as a team towards the highest point. They took the last steps while singing the Nepalese national anthem, then they celebrated the moment together as the sunset surrounded them and the shadow of the great mountain stretched to infinity. “Brother to brother, shoulder to shoulder, we walked together to the summit. No individual program, no individual greed, just team spirit with a shared vision” they wrote a few days later on their socials. A sentence that reveals all the pride of belonging to the country of the great mountains. 10 Nepali: nine Sherpas and one Ghurka. Two names that mean very little to most of the people and that are often understood in the wrong way. Let's start with the term "Sherpa" which is often, erroneously, used in the Western world to indicate high altitude porters. The Sherpas are a people of Nepal that has about 150 thousand representatives in the mountains of the country. The transliterated name means "men of the East". They gave it themselves, to distinguish themselves from other Nepalese populations from Tibet. They inhabit the slopes of

They waited for each others a few meters below the summit, they waited to be all together before going on as a team towards the highest point. They took the last steps while singing the Nepalese national anthem, then they celebrated the moment together as the sunset surrounded them and the shadow of the great mountain stretched to infinity. great mountains, valley villages, and it is here that Western expeditions have long recruited porters for their expeditions. They are men with exceptional physical strength and a natural adaptation to very high altitudes. Nirmal Purja instead belongs to the Gurkha ethnic, a people who inhabits Nepal and northern India. Their name comes from the warrior guru Gorakhnath. From here, men are chosen to join the Gurkha Brigade, an elite body of the British army, where Purja has served for several years.

From porters to protagonists For over half a century, since the first western explorations of the Himalayan mountains, these men have been part of western expeditions. First humble porters, then domestiques with great abilities, high altitude guides and today undisputed protagonists on their home peaks. A change consecrated with the first winter conquest of the K2. An event that closes a chapter and opens the doors to a future of new opportunities, as happened in the Alps over a century ago. The great 19th century conquests over the Alps were prerogative of the aristocracy and of the city middle class, the ambition to climb a mountain rarely started from the valley. The mountaineers were hired as porters or guides, to help and support them in the climb. They knew the territory, they knew how to move and how to face the dangers of the mountain. Just think back to the Matterhorn epic and the figure of Jean-Antoine Carrel. Over the years, mountaineers have started to organize and

train for their expeditions, they have begun to climb for their personal ambition, they have become the undisputed protagonists of mountaineering in their home mountains, the Alps. Over the last twenty years we have also observed this same phenomenon in the Himalayas, where locals have first become trained and competent guides, then protagonists of record climbs. The ten climbers who reached the summit have a CV that boasts at least four Eight-thousanders, many of them have climbed them over and over again. Among them stand out the profiles of Nirmal Purja, record holder with the 14 highest peaks on earth in just 6 months and 6 days (with oxygen), and Mingma David Sherpa, born in 1989, he is the youngest climber that has climbed all 14 Eight-thousanders (with oxygen). Many of their climbs to date have been achieved with the aid of bottled oxygen. In fact, they don’t climb for the pure pleasure of reaching the top of a mountain, but for work. The guys who reached the Everest 9 times did so as commercial expedition guides, so they always had to be able to guarantee the safety of their customers, without using oxygen it would have been unthinkable. Getting back to us, we must frankly admit that Nepalese mountaineers today have no rivals at very high altitudes, although a veil of difference remains when it comes to high technical difficulties. The first winter ascent of the K2 therefore opens the door to many reflections on the future of the Himalayas, now that Sherpas have

K2 was the big last winter challenge, but the doors open to new important possibilities during the colder season. If until now mountaineers have concentrated on achieving the first absolute ascents, now they will be able to dedicate themselves to repetitions, in search of new and increasingly difficult routes, looking for stylistic improvements. become aware of this world. Certainly, as some experts comment, it will lead to major changes within the Sherpa society, bringing closer to mountaineering even those who until now have always lived the activity marginally. They will certainly know how to capitalize on these results, also managing to monetize and becoming themselves the coordinators of mountaineering and trekking expeditions at very high altitude.

Oxygen: yay or nay? Ten climbers on the summit, nine with oxygen cylinders except for Nirmal Purja, as agreed. Before starting the summit attack, the Nepalese climbers agreed by deciding that at least one of them would climb without using the oxygen. Initially, in addition to Purja, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa was also supposed to climb without it, then the cold and some physical problems prompted him to use it starting from Camp 3. Oxygen always creates indignation in the mountaineering scene, but the reality of this climb is different: in the ascent the climbers were equipping the route in the upper part of the mountain. We are talking about a particularly technical and delicate stretch that forced them to take numerous breaks to put the anchors in position and to lay the ropes. We are in winter, at prohibitive altitudes, with temperatures below zero by several tens of degrees. The risk of freezing is very high for a climber who remains stationary at work without being able to breathe a sufficient amount of oxygen. What they achieved remains a great performance both uphill and downhill, when they had to

cover the negative altitude difference that separates the summit from Camp 3 (7350m) in the dark. But even more surprising is what Sona Sherpa and Gelje Sherpa did, they chose not to stop on the mountain and continue towards base camp in a single pull.

Winter Himalayas, is the story over? K2 was the big last winter challenge, but the doors open to new important possibilities during the colder season. If until now mountaineers have concentrated on achieving the first absolute ascents, now they will be able to dedicate themselves to repetitions, in search of new and increasingly difficult routes, looking for stylistic improvements. Talking about that, it is interesting to point out that in winter no Eight-thousander peaks, with the exception of Nanga Parbat with the ascent of Elisabeth Revol and Tomasz Mackiewicz in the 2017/2018 season, have ever been climbed in pure alpine style. Here, too, the story follows what happened in the Alps: after the ascent of the main peaks of the mountain chain, we saw mountaineers searching for new and increasingly difficult routes. The Englishman Albert Frederick Mummery was a pioneer of this evolution with his routes on the Matterhorn. But there’s more, as happened on our mountains, even on the Himalayas after the conquest of the main peaks we will turn our gaze to the huge basin of mountains between six and seven thousand meters still untouched in the cold season. A new game and a new story to tell.

Nirmal Purja INTERVIEW BY GIANLUCA GASCA

Former member of the United Kingdom special forces, Nirmal Purja is the high altitude record man. Bold and brazen attitude, military-style communication, up to now he has achieved all the goals he has set to himself. He rose to prominence in 2019 for his “Project Possible” that led him to climb all 14 Eight-thousanders in just 189 days, or 6 months and 6 days, with the aid of bottled oxygen. No one would have believed it possible, not even Nirmal himself who repeatedly declared that he got convinced along the way. In the end, he managed to break down the record previously held by the Korean Kim Chang-ho (seven years, ten months and six days). If what he did in the summer on the 14 Eight-thousanders seemed surprising to us, conquering K2 during winter is even more so. He managed to achieve such an extraordinary undertaking with his nine fellow Sherpas, brothers as they call each other.

the brigade to enter the Special Boat Service, a chosen corps of the British Royal Navy. In this period he began to approach the world of the mountains, becoming a specialist in arctic and mountain environments combat. The ambition to reach a peak of eight thousand meters was born instead in 2012 when, during a license period, he ventured into a trek to the Everest base camp. Fascinated by the sight of the highest mountain on Earth, he asked his guide to climb a mountain, so a few days later he was on the top of Lobuche East, six thousand meters, not far from Everest. From there on he never stopped and continued to cultivate his mountaineering passion in his spare time from the hard work of a soldier. In 2014 he reached the summit of Dhaulagiri, his first Eight-thousander, and two years later he climbed the Everest. In 2019 we saw it bouncing from one peak to another, completing the entire Himalayan arc in just 6 months and 6 days.

Among the 10 mountaineers who conquered the last mountain still untouched in winter, Nirmal is the only one who climbed without the use of supplemental oxygen. “At least one of us would have reached the top without oxygen” is the unanimous statement of all the guys on the team. “I haven't talked about it much before because I didn't feel the need to make a fuss about the choice to go up without oxygen” Nirmal confesses, he has carried out his decision even though he was not fully acclimatized. “I had the opportunity to spend little time on the mountain, only one night at camp 2 (6600m) due to the weather conditions”. Despite this he still managed, one step at a time, to the highest point. “We reached the top as a team” he continues. “We never thought about our individual rewards, but each of us worked hard, with determination and with the desire to make the impossible possible”. A great undertaking, especially for the Nepalese people “who have never received the just reward for their merits”.

“One of the aims of this project was to promote Nepalese climbers by cultivating their skills and promoting them internationally” he explains. "Nepalese mountaineers have nothing to envy to Western ones in terms of technical ability in high mountains”. Firm and practical up to now his words have never been denied. Despite the winter goal, which consecrates him together with his companions in the history of mountaineering, we will continue to hear about him.

“Reaching the summit of K2 in the middle of winter meant a lot and is part of the history. This is a moment that will forever remain one of the most special of my life. We managed to push the limits a little further, demonstrating what a team with unity and solidarity can do. In the future there will certainly be other new challenges, stay tuned.”

Nirmal grew up Nepal, in the flat territory of Chitwan, until his majority, when he joined the Ghurkha Brigade, an elite division of the British Army, following in his father's footsteps. In 2009 he left

Point of no return BY CHIARA GUGLIELMINA STILL LIFE ANDREA AVOLIO

What I see is a catastrophic scenario. But if beyond the horizon, beyond this young anguish, I would not glimpse a positive force in the dawn, I probably would not still be here, among these pages, writing.

In life, as on the wall, what makes the difference is the strength of spirit. And we, 25 years old guys, more or less, do not know how to educate this spirit that was born tired. The point of no return, in mountaineering, is an invisible line that separates you from the possibility of rescuing yourself. Once you cross that border, turning back is no longer possible. The point where the life jacket that accompanied you for the entire navigation suddenly vanishes. And you can only move forward by taking full responsibility of your own choices. Even the wrong ones. Especially the wrong ones.

cream shop at the foot of Monte Rosa? Then we have lactose-free flavors, 100% fruit flavors, those without gluten, those without ice cream, those without taste, those for vegans, those for flat-Earthers and those for influencers: they are colorful and melt only after being posted on Instagram. Ah, and then there is the container. “Cone or cup?” “Cone, thank you.” “Okay miss, but which one? The classic one or with chocolate glaze, gluten-free or sugar-free, with chopped hazelnuts or colored sugars to match your feed? And what size? Do you want a baby cone or a small, medium, standard, large, extra-large, maxi cone? In short, miss, tell me what ice cream you want before the summer is over!” “Are you telling me I can't have ice cream in winter?”

Choosing causes us panic attacks. I had some. And the younger we are, the more the process is amplified. In our defence I say that if once, in the ice cream parlor, my grandfather could choose between strawberry or chocolate, now we have: chocolate chip, hazelnut, cream, chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk-free chocolate and chocolate without chocolate. Then again: pistachio, lemon, strawberry, melon, coconut, coffee, vanilla, yogurt (cow, goat, soy), mozzarella (don't let me even start on milk varieties), mint, banana, green apple , gianduia, smurf (what kind of flavor is it?), malaga, mango (my favorite). Then again, what is mango doing in an ice

Mine is a severe self-criticism. It doesn’t look for someone to blame, but looks sincerely at my own mistakes. Today everyone must focus only on the grip he has chosen to hold on to. Instead of looking for someone to blame, we should search for the place where we stumbled, injuring ourselves to the point of becoming so hopelessly lame. I recently met and had a chat with a unique man, an excellent mountaineer from Valse-

Today everyone must focus only on the grip he has chosen to hold on to. Instead of looking for someone to blame, we should search for the place where we stumbled, injuring ourselves to the point of becoming so hopelessly lame.

sia, with an incredible and humble curriculum to the point of making me promise not to mention his name. I respect his decision and I will tell you about Italo Tendesane, born in 1935. To the most curious of you, I must confess that the name is an anagram.

if he were still climbing on those walls. Italo tells us about his Curriculum: “Mountain activity calendar from 1964 to 2015”: JUNE 28-29TH, 1964: Dolomites - Lavaredo

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I know him by reputation, not personally. To contact him I ask a friend for his phone number and for the first time on my WhatsApp chat appeared a landline number: hieroglyphic number such as the prefix 0163. “Call him here, his wife will answer, he no longer hears well, he speaks only dialect and he doesn't have a cell phone.” It’s not that he doesn’t know Italian, he is fluent in his own language, but it is natural that he feels more at ease with those words he spoke on the wall with his climbing partners. When he arrives in the middle of the story, he changes language, changes gestures, changes everything. While he talks, he involuntarily anticipates the climax moments by rubbing his palms on the smooth wooden table, as if to identify, between the veins, some grips that reinforces his memories. He clings his nails to the crack that joins the wooden planks in the center as

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The rest of us instead are spectators who are more or less silent, more or less critical, we will no longer be able to distinguish what’s real from what’s fiction and will end up not believing in anything. And, with no aim left, we will find no reason to move forward. These are only very few among his hundreds of noteworthy climbs. In addition to having collected an enviable palmares on the Alps, Italo Tendesane has traveled and climbed all over the world between Peru, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Nepal, China, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador. In this list stand out relevant trips and adventures such as Mera Peak (6.476m) in Nepal and Diran Peak (7.266m) in Pakistan.

what’s fiction and will end up not believing in anything. And, with no aim left, we will find no reason to move forward. It looks like that the world of sport, which I have lived without particular merit in my 17 years of competitive skiing, is now governed by a self-proclaimed monarchy: where the new generation has proclaimed for itself the title of monarch without historical ties to the previous dynasty. Because not even the most acute observers could find any similarity between someone like me and someone like Italo Tendesane. Disciplines that were once discovery and exploration are now essentially athletic performance. This not necessarily because men like Italo were better than us in spirit, but partly also because, trivially, there were no alternatives. And the lack of them cleaned up, eliminating 80% of the ropes even before reaching the foot of the wall. An ecosystem capable of self-regulating in a sort of natural selection.

Italo does not define himself as a real mountaineer, he has not done anything worth remembering he says. It is funny, however, how for guys like us it is enough to buy a vintage backpack, hang a couple of camping mugs on it and sew on it a patch "The mountains are calling" or some other marketing sentences to be ready to call ourselves explorers, adventurers, or worse, athletes capable of heroic quests. Some of us even invent quests out of nowhere and step onto a DIY bench affected by the DunningKruger effect: a cognitive bias hypothesis that people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability and think of themselves as experts. And the saddest thing is that this argument expressed through social networks, emphasizes everything giving back a dystopian universe that harms everyone.

Today, however, we have on the one hand the Big professionals who, thanks to intensive training and the help of increasingly sophisticated gears, collect challenges of inaccessible level and, on the other, a rather flat and drowsy crowd focused on low-level climbing performances: safe at every step and protected from even the faintest gust of wind.

Fake heroes will soon fall from the top of their pedestal and, having not had the patience to pursue a path that would teach them the art of falling, they will crash to the ground unable to get up. The rest of us instead are spectators who are more or less silent, more or less critical, we will no longer be able to distinguish what’s real from

So in the end it’s better to choose short routes, close to home, comfortable and perhaps with benches underneath to bring girlfriends as personal photographers capable of sharing “the challenge” live on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok.

Unlike what can happen on the wall, in a circular shape the point of no return does not exist. Each ride gives us a chance to improve.

Maybe you're not even at the top that your lady has already edited a nice video for you with “The Gladiator” soundtrack. Thinking only about the right caption instead of searching for what’s new, a potential risk with the possibility of finding ourselves immersed in that damned point of no return. Where suddenly there is nothing and everything at the same time. No connection on your iPhone 12 Super Hyper Pro, but finally a connection with your ego from which you run away more and more often because you don’t want to hear something truthful.

“August 20-21st, 2011: Dent d’Hérens attempt (4.171m) with Andrea and Marzia. It’s noon and we are at 5th hold, we gave up: There are still 120m to the top, but we would need to climb another hour, and one more to get down, there are a lot of mountaineers above us, at least 40. Andrea shows fatigue and uncertainty in climbing the snow-free rock slabs with crampons, better to give up. I attempted this climb twice in ten days and I had the summit within reach twice. I am not sorry indeed, I feel a deep and intimate pleasure, at the age of 77, in ending my mountaineering career with this double challenge and double defeat, on a beautiful mountain that has granted me two wonderful days. Mine was not a sad avenue of sunset, my surrender was in the field with the honours of war. In my so-called palmares, the Dent d’Hérens will be missing but, even if I had "conquered" it, how many Dent d’Hérens were left? And on which one of them would I definitively certify my age in an honorable way?”

Pay attention: this is a severe criticism, but I am the first to crucify myself, sweating and being ashamed of these words. Maybe, if it's a good day, I can hardly climb a 6b and already dream of becoming Hervè Barmasse's photographer. Not that the dream is forbidden, but the line that separates it from the illusion is very thin. Yes, there is a choice, but if radical it would lead to isolation and, consequently, to living outside of your own time and I, in addition to not wanting to do it, cannot even afford it, because I make a living out of communication. However, I feel an unanimous need of wanting to change things and I trust that everyone's conscience will bring us together to wake up in that dawn that gets warmer.

One thing that we as millennials can do it exists, it is accepting and be aware that everything is cyclical: it is a wheel that never stops. Our grandparents worked hard to leave us one in excellent condition. Someone then damaged it out with the same carelessness with which we are damaging it today. We are not yet at the point of having to change it, but it is essential to repair it as fast as possible so that our children will enjoy a smoother journey.

In the end I want to let the great Italo speak, thanking him for the collective awareness examination he generated.

Unlike what can happen on the wall, in a circular shape the point of no return does not exist. Each ride gives us a chance to improve.

Rediscovering Liguria T E X T P I E T R O B UAT I E R PHOTOS LUIGI CHIURCHI & PIETRO IENCA

n Liguria the winter between 2020 and 2021 will be remembered not only for the current pandemic emergency, but also for something happier. In fact, an exciting series of snowfalls has transformed the landscape, giving it a Norwegian mood. From the sea to the mountains, from the foamy white of the waves to the soft white of snow dust. From the Ligurian Alps to the Apennine arc, in recent weeks we saw many white peaks among the Ligurian mountains. In this historical period “slow tourism” seems to have become more and more popular among Italians and snowshoes and skins have represented an escape route as far as possible.

We’ve seen similar scenes on the Monte Beigua massif, another area suitable for winter ascents during heavy snowfalls. Here there’s a very interesting Natural Park, located in the first hinterland between Arenzano, Varazze and Sassello. Climbing along the exposed sides towards the Ligurian Sea, we arrived at one of the favorite viewpoints of local photographers. We shared some thoughts up there: in recent years, thanks to a series of international projects conducted with various realities, we have been able to travel far away from home. However, Genoa remains the place where we were born and where we will always leave a piece of our heart. Being able to appreciate it from up there, adorned in the guise of a typically Nordic city, was therefore an indescribable emotion. It was like to apply a phone filter to reality.

We as Trip In Your Shoes had the opportunity and the honor of enjoying these unprecedented views. First of all, we couldn’t miss to explore the Ligurian Alps. They develop between Piedmont, Liguria and France and form a stretch with beautiful landscapes during all the seasons. In the past, we had the chance to climb the highest peak of our region: Monte Saccarello. 2201 meters high, it allows you to extend the view from Provence to the Apuan Alps in Tuscany, overlooking the entire Gulf of Genoa from above. A natural balcony, which has reconciled us with the environment and with clean air. Using the Laterza refuge as a base camp, we were able to take some aerial shots with the drone and ski a few kilometers from the coast as the crow flies. We were lucky to see such a show. In the evening the shaded lights of the sunset seemed to caress the ridges, immersed in a silence broken only by our voices. A gentle wind blew over the crest, throwing up some shimmering puffs.

We then let ourselves be carried away by a pleasant force of gravity, which made us flow in adrenalinic slaloms, while going down with skis on. The interesting aspect is that in just half a day you can find yourself from the traffic of the city to situations like this, with a strong emotional impact.

"An exciting series of snowfalls has transformed the landscape, giving it a Norwegian mood. From the sea to the mountains, from the foamy white of the waves to the soft white of snow dust".

"We understand now how useful it is to start over from a greater awareness of the hidden beauties in the territories we inhabit". Focusing on the central sector of the region, there are the Antola Park and the Aveto Park, which often see heavy snowfalls between December and February. The vegetation in lucky periods tends to be covered with an inviting mantle, dotted here and there by the footprints of the lively local fauna. Every snowshoes lover here can disconnect from the hectic hustle and bustle of everyday life and immerse himself in the watchful beech woods, which seem to smell you with the branches stripped by Autumn. Specifically, we point out the area of Santo Stefano d'Aveto, which among other things also hosts some historic ski resorts.

effective response to the growing desire for outdoor experiences. Boots in summer and snowshoes in winter, rocky routes and landscapes close to home. We understand now how useful it is to start over from a greater awareness of the hidden beauties in the territories we inhabit. In our own small way, we had to partially redefine the work we have been carrying out for years, focusing even more on enhancing the local potential and microclimates that characterize a special part of Italy like Liguria. Nestled between the Mediterranean and the Apennine ridge, it seems to embrace the currents coming from the sea with a firm grip, mixing the notes of Fabrizio De André with the smells of basil, according to a well-tuned synaesthesia. During the last few weeks we have enjoyed the climbs among the maritime pines in those conditions of environmental sustainability that make snowshoeing and ski mountaineering desirable activities. The increase in the number of enthusiasts in the last year once again attests to the success of “slow tourism”, which should be sponsored with courage and determination in this historical time.

The view that you can enjoy once you reach the surrounding peaks is rewarded on days of good weather. In fact, the gaze can be turned towards the coast, which however remains covered by other mountain ranges close to it, leaving room for the imagination. What emerges instead is the line of the sea on the horizon, which joins the sky playing with various colors. Last winter, in general, turned the spotlight on a peculiarity of our way of thinking. We’re talking as Italians, but we could easily say, more generally, as “human”: xenophilia. The commercialization of the natural landscape, in addition to the astonishing international mobility developed in the 21st century, constantly pushes us to look for that ideal of perfection of the elements with which we wish to fill our eyes and soul in the exotic and in the geographical distance. The health emergency that has hit the world, however, has forced anyone to redefine their spaces, starting from a rediscovery of their “neighboring foreign”. Therefore, the provincial excursions, daily and easily organized, have taken over, becoming an

The message that we hope to convey through our images is that Liguria can offer a great mountain variety, often overshadowed by the beauty and reputation of its coastline. However, these peaks would lose their charm without the proximity to the barely perceptible roar of the waves. One thing does not exclude the other. Everything blends into a picturesque setting. Not everything is a “sharp shards of bottles”, as Eugenio Montale wrote in a famous poem about his land. There is also a lot of sweetness in the Ligurian landscape, seeing is believing.

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The North Face X Gucci The collection everyone is talking about, so let’s talk about it too. BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O

The spirit of exploration can take on different meanings, especially in modern times. Today the term has adequately expanded, it has dug beyond the surface to discover not only new places and cultures, but also new concepts. And this necessarily leads us to move on towards several directions. Pushing the limits also means breaking the mold, crossing borders, adding new pieces to the stories of those who preceded us, obtaining the unexpected. Exploration is almost an ethos, a doctrine, not a wooden ship sailing towards the edge of the map. Sometimes it's all about creative exploration. Like it or not, the collab between the Florentine maison and the Californian brand is undoubtedly the most awaited for and the one that everyone is talking about in this season. Should we be surprised? Should we be outraged? Of course not. Instead let’s try to simply analyze the facts.

So, in all honesty and personally speaking, I was more curious about how this collection would have been perceived than about the line itself. And the reactions came fast. Mocked, derided, labeled as ridiculous. On social media, mountaineers and hikers claimed to be horrified and disappointed, triggering comments upon comments, de-legitimizing the outdoor brand's status and its origins. "If this is true, I will never buy The North Face ever again." Free to do it, my friend. There were even people who wrote: "someone in the marketing team should be fired for this disaster". But do you realize, that somebody in the marketing team was right about everything and everyone? Indiscriminately. You may not like it, of course, but The North Face no longer has anything to do with that small retailer founded in San Francisco by Douglas Tompkins; it is part of a $14 billion corporation that follows a certain market logic. And while other companies fill their mouths with (more or less

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successful) attempts to combine sportswear and lifestyle, The North Face has understood, more than anyone else, how to channel an entire generation. It understood the value of collaborations and capsules, even anticipating their successes. Its first collab with Supreme, just to name one, dates back to 2007. And the brand’s raids into the fashion world are certainly nothing new (see Maison Margiela and Junya Watanabe just to name a few). If the direction taken by the outdoor market is clear, the one taken by TNF is even clearer. Let’s think about the classic 1996 Nupste. It has become a modern status symbol for teenagers around the world, worn by celebrities such as Emily Ratajkowski, Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Kanye West. One of the most popular items in online sales apps with 500% increases in the past four months. Only on eBay, between July and December 2020, the name The North Face has been typed every three seconds.

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Like it or not, the collab between the Florentine maison and the Californian brand is undoubtedly the most awaited for and the one that everyone is talking about in this season. Should we be surprised? Should we be outraged? Of course not.

Let's not forget that, even before this global pandemic, many brands in the sector were struggling to keep up. The evolving retail scene, together with the growing demand for sustainable manufacturing, has only increased the pressure, and brands had to find new ways to stay alive. And this has been a positive boost for consumers: innovative technologies, reassurance on environmental ethics, exciting collaborations between companies ready to combine their respective skills. After all, this is also what allows brands to support athletes, events, video productions. Think of Xavier De Le Rue, Simone Moro, Mike Arnold, David Göttler, Jacopo Larcher, Pau Capell, James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini. Without all of this, who would support their lifestyles and adventures? How could human achievements in various sports progress? It seems like, out of the blue, we forgot that there is (and predominates) a technical side. That there are the Summit, Steep and Flight series. That there is the Futurelight technology. It's true that beyond the absolute news there was a lot of disbelief about how The North Face could have joined a luxury brand like Gucci. The result of this unlikely marriage could only be brilliant and unprecedented, something absolutely pioneering. What emerges is a perfect meeting point between two parallel worlds: an everyday reality and the high fashion world. We don't necessarily have to agree. But we must learn to distinguish, to sepa-

rate the two contexts. This collaboration combines the commitment of both brands to promote adventure, real and metaphorical. Pay attention, I said real and metaphorical. Yes, because on the one hand we have the dimension of the tangible, represented by The North Face, which with its commitment has provided the right tools that explorers and adventurers needed, accompanying them since the late 1960s to discover the world. On the other hand we have the translated dimension, the allegory. A contribution, the one of Gucci, decidedly more introspective and analytical, which is committed to breaking down the limits of individual expression through a free and unconstrained fashion, which dares without fear. The North Face dresses all those who travel in search of adventure and challenge the status quo; likewise, Gucci supports people to freely express and celebrate their personalities. What we are facing is a hymn to extreme and vibrant courage, the result of intense experimentation, the result of an aesthetic and conceptual fusion. What consolidates the bond of the collection is the widespread 70s mood chosen by the creative director Alessandro Michele for the advertising campaign created by Daniel Shea, where the breathtaking views of the Alps bring to mind the spontaneity of a travel group, of a group of friends reunited to enjoy the dream of the outdoor life. If we consider that nature has become, for many, one of the few places that makes us feel good in 2020, Gucci's adventure in a territory like this ma-

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kes sense and could not have come at a better time (even if the greener terrain in which we are going to find one of these items will probably be the town park). If you think about it, this is what we feel today, realizing the fact that the simplest and most obvious things are no longer like they used to. In our immobility, it is normal that this idyllic imaginary seems a vague memory, light years far away from us. But if there is something that Gucci and The North Face seem to want to document through the campaign, it is that there is a way to go towards a dimension of serenity, carelessness and fun. This collab, let's face it, is brilliant, it is expressive and has a common goal: to inspire positive action and a wider audience. And it worked, it succeeded. A few weeks later, as if to increase the dose of skeptics and opponents, we saw images of Jimmy Chin (with a superlative Jared Leto) in the Joshua Tree National Park. Perhaps a sort of definitive consecration, a pass. Perhaps what it took to close the circle and silence everyone. Modern explorers adopt the same philosophy as their predecessors. They look for the limits of mind, body and soul, not only through geography. This collaboration has certainly raise strong opinions towards both brands. And probably, this was also part of the goal: to inspire us to create, but above all, to think differently. If this seems too much to you, just take a look at what just has happened at the Milan Fashion Week.

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Omar Di Felice Kidnapped by the cold INTERVIEW BY GIANLUCA GASCA PHOTOS LUIGI SESTILI

He loves cycling in the cold, pushing himself to the limit with freezing temperatures while exploring new and unusual territories. From Alaska to Iceland, from the North Cape to the Gobi desert. If the temperatures drop below zero it’s the “Omar area”. After a short professional career, Omar Di Felice has chosen to leave the world of watts and training tables to devote himself to something even more extreme, ultracycling. Omar, how was your passion for cycling born? I discovered the world of cycling thanks to Pantani, so when I was 13 I started competing. My cycling career has been completely normal but I have always dreamed of long distances and I often went beyond the training tables my coaches prepared for me.

Races of more than 300 kilometers that last from 12 hours up to days. You forget your opponent when you ride in these conditions, it becomes a challenge against yourself, a resistance race to go against your mind and tiredness, against that voice that repeats to you insistently to stop. Race Across France (2600km non-stop unsupported), Race Across Italy (700km non-stop), Trans Dolomitics Way (1300km and 28000 meters of elevation gain non-stop unsupported), Ultracycling Dolomitica (616km). These and many other competitions that saw Di Felice excel consecrating him as the undisputed representative of ultracycling in Italy. While you're reading this interview, Omar is in the Himalayas, engaged in a long winter crossing through the Nepalese side of the highest mountain range in the world. An unsupported experience of weeks through villages and mountain passes where the cold is bitter and the air too thin. Kilometer after kilometer, the athlete is reaching the foot of Everest. What best time than this one to listen to his words and share his passion for cycling, but especially for the winter.

You weren’t born to become the the classic pro cyclist. For me, cycling has always meant climbing mountains, visiting places I’ve never been to and discovering new corners of the world. I’ve always preferred travelling without setting a precise destination with no training tables to respect rather than a professional career. The bike is basically our first means of transport when we are children, right? That’s true, I would say that this is a common ground for everyone. With the bike we can get away from home, explore the country. Talking about myself, I really fell in love with the world of cycling that goes beyond the sport itself and later became a way to experience adventures, as if it had regained its symbolic value.

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Today you are famous both for your adventures and for your love for the winter season. Why this choice? I could say that I fell love with winter and the cold when I went on a holiday in Iceland ten years ago, it literally kidnapped me thanks to its shapes and colors. The feeling of cold on the skin, on the face. Almost immediately I started planning new adventures, this time on a bicycle, in order to explore the world in its most severe season.

From the photos it looks like a warm place, is is true? The absence of snow could be deceiving, in reality the cold was penetrating. At first, I was disoriented by the sight of the sun and sand that gave the environment the classic look of African deserts. During the first part of the crossing the thermometer dropped to -30 degrees while in the central area it was warmer with -10 or -15 degrees. Have you ever been afraid of the cold during your experiences? It happened once while I was cycling alone towards the North Cape. It was really cold, the temperature was -35 degrees and there was a constant wind. I was in the Alta area, around me there was nothing where I could repair myself, the only human trace was that strip of asphalt I was riding on. After five and a half hours I started to get scared because I was completely exposed and I knew that a small bike failure would be enough to make the situation truly tragic. At that temperature I don't think I would ever have been able to fix it without suffering consequences. I was afraid of the risk of freezing and I understood how very simple is to push too far.

You often visit Iceland, is it a country you particularly love? As I said before, it is the place where it all started. Over the years I have lived some unique experiences over there. The first one was when I completed the winter circumnavigation of the Ring Road, a road that runs around the entire island followed by a support car, the second time I set off alone with the idea of cycling on that same road passing from north, then due to an impassable route I had to go back and I completed the ring from southern part. At the end of 2019 I decided to go there alone and unsupported and to sleep in a tent. I was able to explore the inland areas on gravel roads and routes. In your life you had a continuous stylistic evolution. From competitions, to extreme supported experiences to unsupported ones. I believe that trying to go beyond your limit is part of the natural exploratory process. In my first experiences, I focused on safety and had a support vehicle that could have help me in case of need, today I want to understand how far I can go only with my bike.

This year you’re turning 40 and you’re facing the highest adventure ever: the Himalayas. Is it a symbolic choice? For that number I wanted something to remember! I have lived through many experiences, but if I were to allocate them temporally thinking about my age it would be difficult for me to do it. But if someone ask me what I did at 40, I am sure that Everest will immediately come to mind. We will certainly have the opportunity to talk about the Himalayas and Everest when you come back. Before leaving you to the final preparations, we want to ask you one last question: are you already imagining what will come after the Everest? Where do you see yourself in your future? I think passions remain but it changes the way we live them. That’s because our needs change, our body changes, the way we think changes. With age we become more aware. I see life as a path that I am simply ready to live. Coming to the answer, I can only say that cycling and adventure will continue to be a part of my life for a long time.

You landed in the Gobi desert in the middle of winter. You have been the first person to cross it during this season, how was the experience? It has been a series of difficulties and emotions. On the one hand, I had an incredible human experience that allowed me to come into contact with the peoples who live in the desert, on the other hand it was difficult to ride while tragic news came from Italy. I flew to Mongolia on February 24th, 2020, just weeks before the world stopped due to the Covid pandemic. When the chaos broke out I was in the heart of the desert and I immediately understood how difficult it would be to return to Italy, so after a first moment of uncertainty I decided to continue cycling to complete the crossing.

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Paolo Marazzi: when passion becomes obsession T E X T M A R TA M A N ZO N I

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Where did you get the idea of opening this new route? I have always looked at this wall: you can see it by taking the Lake Highway. It is located in the town of Griante, on Mount San Martino, just before Menaggio, the approach starts from a small church. I recently got to see it more calmly after cycling around the lake and it intrigued me but I had no other information. So I proposed to the girl I'm dating to take a walk and we just happened to end up right down there. It is a very overhanging yellow wall with cubed rocks. So I talked about it to Simone Pedeferri, I have already done several climbs with him and I know he is a guarantee: he is really very experienced. At first he was not convinced, even if I could tell that he was impressed, he thought it could not be bolted from the bottom while I did not want to open it from above. We went back together to see it again and a few days later he told me that Mirko Masè could come and open it with us.

What’s the name of the route? Drink, cliff, fuck, repeat. It recalls the name of a Fat Boy Slim song we were listening to in the car, which is called Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat. The cliff was crucial throughout the route. Then to customize the name a little, we thought about the other activities we were carrying out during the lockdown, and we added the words of everyday life of that period. What’s its grade? 7c, 7a at least. Is there a report about it? The route has already become a painting by Simone Pedeferri (who in addition to being part of the Ragni di Lecco is also an artist), but the report has not yet come out. Several people have already asked for it, precisely because it is a route that can be climbed in winter, as it faces south, but for now we have kept it on standby. The most interesting aspect of this project is that it highlights how even today it is possible to find a lot of interesting walls and initiatives. Sometimes I think about an idea which then, combined with the experience and determination of Simone Pedeferri, becomes a good project.

What problems did you meet? It was December, a short period of time with less restrictions in Lombardy and it was really cold: we climbed with socks, shoes, leggings, trousers, two fleeces and a down jacket. We bolted the route in six/seven days: it was almost all aid work, we progressed a little bit, put up the cliff and tried to bolt. I have fallen at least ten times with the drill in hand. Each of us climbed the parts we felt more comfortable on, it was a real team play. Simone always started bolting from the belays, the hope is always that someone doesn't fall on your head with the drill in hand. On the penultimate pitch we found a giant block of rock next to the belay and we didn't know what to do. We couldn't throw it down because it could have ended up on the road and we didn't like the idea of anchoring it to the rock. In the end, we put a bolt on this huge rock, we harnessed it and lowered down it for one hundred and fifty meters, until it rested on the ground. In the following days we went back climbing and saw that behind this route there is another wall that has not yet been climbed.

If there had been the possibility of traveling, would you have opened this route anyway? I have been to Patagonia several times and I was supposed to go back this year: we have a goal in mind and there could probably be another hundred walls to climb there. But even here on our home mountains there are a lot of good projects to carry out and in recent years I have taken a lot of satisfaction by staying close. You can only travel a few months a year and you have plenty of time to discover the local opportunities that exist. I need both things, both stimuli abroad and close to home. I have to be honest though, without the pandemic I don't think I would have opened this route.

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Each generation of climbers wants to be revolutionary compared to the previous one. What do you think is the trace your generation will leave? The bar is certainly raising more and more. But the real exploratory mountaineering was achieved by climbers who conquered the Cerro Torre for the first time from the glacier side, for example. It seems hard to overcome past generations: the climbers of the 1930s were pioneers, as were the Masino rock climbers, who only followed one route, not caring about the top. I think of somewhat provocative names such as The Awakening of Kundalini, Rising Moon, Irrational Ocean, Polimagò. Being revolutionary like them is impossible. The only thing we can do is try to be fast climbers. We are a little more comfortable explorers, we even discovered the existence of a wall thanks to Google Earth: we caught a glimpse of a shadow and thought we'd go and take a look.

together. I miss them a lot. Maybe it's a way to convince myself, but the mantra that I always repeat to myself when a friend of mine dies in the mountains doing what he likes, is that he, in a few years, has certainly lived more than many elderly people who die at eighty years old. It is clear that for a parent it is different, but I think that every day of my friends who are no longer here with us lasted fifty hours, thanks to the passion they lived it, and therefore in reality they did not die at twenty-five, like Matteo Pasquetto, but at seventy. The video of the conquest of the winter K2 shows ten Nepali who wait for each others holding hands and reaching the summit together while singing the national anthem. A solidarity that seems light years away from the individualism of some Western mountaineers. There was just one mountaineer without oxygen: so it has been an individual conquest. Who is the first who climbed Silence? Adam Ondra, first 9c in the world. Who is the first who climbed Everest without oxygen? Reinhold Messner, together with Peter Habeler. There is always one name that is remembered. Only sometimes you think about the first two people of the team and what they shared.

Doesn't all this technology affect the authenticity of the adventure? Everything has changed: before, when they climbed Fitz Roy they would go under the wall on the edge of the glacier and stay there for maybe a month and a half. Now climbers usually wait for a window of good weather in the village. It is a different mountaineering.

Is mountaineering a sharing experience or is it just a sort of narcissism? Everyone wants to keep their projects to themselves. It is obvious that in an interview I would come out better saying that sharing is more important, but re-reading these words I would feel a hypocrite. We are all divas in mountaineering. There’s a grade and when you climb what do you want to do? Conquering that grade. It is your ego that leads you to go beyond your level. We all want to be the first to carry out a challenge: an unwritten competition, which however exists. But we must be careful because it sometimes leads to fatal consequences.

How do you see yourself in the future? Have you ever thought about Himalayan mountaineering? Considering what I like to do now I would say no, but you never know. I have never even reached the top of Mont Blanc and for now I don't care, I prefer to climb on its walls. I don't like to suffer because of altitude. It takes too much effort! In the future I would like to have a little more vision on new projects and be able to better implement the logistics part as well. Even in the case of this last new route that we opened, I was the one who saw the yellow wall but the real route has been seen by Simone, who is teaching me a lot everyday.

What is the line between passion and obsession? It is a subtle and difficult difference to understand, so you have to be careful. However, I believe that mountaineering is a lifestyle, not a sport. And so your passion inevitably becomes your obsession. You live for that.

In 2020 two of your friends, mountaineers Matteo Bernasconi and Matteo Pasquetto, died. How are you? Their deaths have affected me so much and even now they continue to hurt me in a different way. They have always amazed me when they were here, and even now they continue to give me so much. I created a group of Alpine Guides with Matteo Bernasconi called Milano Adventure, and now that the project has started and is going well I would like to show it to him, he’s probably seeing it anyway. And with Matteo Pasquetto I did my first exam of the guide course climbing all the routes together. We went very well, also in terms of grades, because the two of us worked good

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Mountaineer, climber, mountain guide and much more. Will Gadd in 2014 is on top of Kilimanjaro climbing some of the most incredible ice pinnacles located at 6000 meters high. In 2020 he returns to those same places and in front of him he finds a completely changed mountain, a large part of the glacier no longer exists. We are losing the fight against global warming, but maybe there’s still something we can do t0 reverse the trend.

Hello Will, tell us who you are and what you do in your life. I’m an adventure athlete, speaker, mountain guide and dad from Canmore, Alberta Canada. Mountains are always been my home. I grew up climbing with my parents, then I got into paragliding, skiing, kayaking, mountain biking, basically anything fun outdoors. I’d say I've been completely immersed in these sports, and I've always given them 100% as I'm totally passionate about them.

themselves become unstable, since they often have a lot of meltwater running underneath. Apart from Kilimangiaro, had you already noticed the same effect in other places? Yes, unfortunately it is a change that is happening on a global level, from the Alps to the Andes to Himalaya to the Rockies. These changes are really obvious if you live with glaciers. When I was a boy and my parents took me to Athabasca, the glacier near our home, you only had to walk for a few minutes before reaching the ice. As the years passed, the walk to the ice got longer and longer. These days you can't even see it from the car park! When I started travelling around with maps, I realized most of them put the start of glaciers in the wrong place, often by kilometres, not just a few metres. We think of mountains and glaciers as certainties, perennial things, but they're not.

You’ve been Kilimanjaro in 2014. When you went back there this year, you found the glacier completely changed. What happened? In 2020 I found a glacier dramatically reduced in size and we tried to document the changes. A lot of the ice we had seen in 2014 was simply gone, and the rest was half the size or less. It was really shocking to me. I had professor Douglas Hardy on the trip with me (we were helping him reinstall his weather station) I was able to learn a lot about what was happening and why. The ice on Kilimanjaro acted as a bond attaching the rocks to the mountain and now that it's melting there are many more rock falls of all sizes. And it's not just the surface ice we can see, but also the underground ice, known as permafrost. As the glaciers melt, the permafrost melts too, causing landslides and rock falls. And it's not only rocks: the glaciers

Do you think that in the upcoming years it will become easier to climb and explore the mountains due to the higher temperatures? Or is climate change making most of the world's ice routes more difficult? It all depends, there are actually some routes that have always been considered extremely dangerous, because they pass under vertical or overhanging seracs which occasionally drop chunks of ice. Now the

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The really big problems will be felt by those who depend on glacial melt water for their crops and way of life. These glaciers are shrinking fast, and so the water supply is threatened.

In my view the biggest change we can make is to vote for people who take environmental issues seriously but also take action individually.

seracs have melted and it's much safer. However many of the glaciers I used as trails into the mountains when I was young are much much smaller and less stable generally. When there's no more ice, it becomes much more difficult to move on the unstable rock, plus the fact that the small glacier that's left becomes less stable, with more crevasses. I think overall that climate change will cause problems for mountain people, but the really big problems will be felt by those who depend on glacial melt water for their crops and way of life. These glaciers are shrinking fast, and so the water supply is threatened.

sequences of my actions. In my view the biggest change we can make is to vote for people who take environmental issues seriously but also take action individually. Eating less meat, choosing a car that uses less fuel, using renewable energy to heat the house, making things last as long as possible instead of throwing them away. These are all small things but they can make a difference. What equipment did you use on the recent Kilimanjaro expedition? SI’m lucky to have great gear! I use the Scarpa Phantom Techs on Kilimanjaro, and I use them at home in the Canadian Rockies also. Then I had an Arc’teryx Alpha IS jacket, Alpha FL pants and a great big sleeping bag for staying near the summit for a week! And I flew off the top, so I got to use my Gin Explorer Glider for that. Amazing to launch in a windy -10 and land in a tropical +30 field an hour later!

Mountain activities are becoming increasingly popular. Do you think that nowadays there's more attention to these issues than when you started climbing? That’s true, every year the mountains are more crowded. Obviously, most of the new visitors don't have much mountain experience. We need to invest heavily in education and training. Helping people to behave responsibly and respectfully in the mountains will make them more aware of the impact they have on the planet. For many years I too have underestimated the problem, but now most of my decisions take account of the environmental con-

Any future projects? Antarctica in 2022, but also going back to Greenland. I am really loving the combination of sport and science and I’ve been using it to help glacial research globally. I’m also trying to get to carbon neutral and fly a lot less in the coming years, so I also have some good projects close to home bu they’re top secret for now.

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Oxygen Exactly where we needed more oxygen, they've removed all traces of it. We went on in trouble. If the mountains represented a big business for many people we would all be there, embraced in a single serpentine. Too bad that only for a few people, the mountain is like the oxygen we breathe. Because the many have always forgotten the few, stealing their air. TEXT CHIARA GUGLIELMINA BY DENIS PICCOLO S K I A L P E R L U C A B E LT R A M E

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MOROTTO SPORTS EQUIPMENT QUOTA 1224 THE NORTH FACE CORTINA CORTINA 360 PATAGONIA CORTINA ROCK & ICE CORTINA SALEWA CORTINA TECNICA OLYMPIA SPORT ALFREDO SPORT KOSTNER 4810 SPORT ARDI SPORT LES PYRAMIDES PATAGONIA COURMAYEUR THE NORTH FACE COURMAYEUR VI BLOCK ALPSTATION CUNEO BIGUP OUTDOOR SALEWA CUNEO THE NORTH FACE CUNEO VIALE CALZATURE FALETTI MOUNTAIN STORE DF DESENZANO MOUNTAIN GARAGE OUTSIDER KRALER SPORT SALEWA DOBBIACO ALPSTATION BRIANZA MOSONI SPORT POSSA SPORT SPORT EXTREME ERCOLE OUTDOOR & TREKKING STORE HOLIDAY SPORT SPIT SPORT OUTDOOR TRAILMARKET.COM IL DADO BOULDER LINEA VERTICALE PENNENTE OUTDOOR ALPMANIA DEVA WALL ERREGI SPORT CRAZY STORE FINALE LIGURE LA SPORTIVA FINALE LIGURE MONTURA FINALBORGO OUTPOST MONTAINEERING RIDE & RUN CRAZY STORE ROCKSTORE SALEWA FINALE LIGURE CLIMB PESCI CAMPING STORE SPORT CLUB THE NORTH FACE FIRENZE OBIETTIVO MONTAGNA BALANTE SPORT CAPO NORD GIMELLI 3.30 RUNNING STORE ROSSIGNOL FORMIGLIANA SPORTIFICATION SURF SHOP SPORTMAX BM SPORT BONI SPORT BONI SPORT BONI SPORT BOULDER FACTORY CENTRO CANOA HOBBY SPORT MOISMAN SALEWA GENOVA REPETTO SPORT MONTAGNARD SPORT SONEGO RUNNING LIFE SPORTWAY GRAVELLONA BERGLAND 099 OUTDOOR SPORTLAND GUSSAGO GRAZIA SPORT ISEO ALPSTATION ISERA ALTA QUOTA ISERNIA 38° PARALLELO MOUNTAINWORLD BLOCKLAND SALEWA AQUILA SPORT 203 SPORT TONY IMPULS SPORT AFFARI & SPORT LECCO SPORT HUB LECCO MY WALL BOTTERO SKI DF SPORT SPECIALIST LISSONE MAXI SPORT LISSONE CENTRO HOBBY SPORT CRAZY STORE LIVIGNO I’M SPORT MOUNTAIN PLANET PUNTO SPORT SILENE SPORT SPORT EXTREME THE NORTH FACE LIVIGNO SALEWA OUTLET SCALO MILANO SPORTLAND LONATO SALEWA LONGARONE SPORTLIFEE IL CAMPIONE LUCCA VIVISPORT CRESPI SPORT SPORT MODE STEGER OLIMPIONICO SPORT SPORT 3 TRE MUD AND SNOW CINQUE TERRE TREKKING PEIRANO SPORT JANE SPORT VERTICAL SPORT MANTOVA BREMA SPORT MOUNTAIN STORE THE REVIVE CLUB HUTTER SPORT SPORTLER ALPIN MERANO SPORTLER MERANO MAXI SPORT MERATE ESSETRE SPORT NARDELLI SPORT ALPSTATION MILANO CANADA GOOSE MILANO CARTON DF SPORT SPECIALIST MILANO KIM FORNITURE SCOUT LA MONTAGNA SPORT MANGA CLIMBING SPORTING SAN LORENZO PATAGONIA MILANO RUNAWAY SALEWA MILANO SAVE THE DUCK MILANO SAVE THE DUCK MILANO THE NORTH FACE MILANO UNDER ARMOUR MILANO UNDER ARMOUR MILANO VERDE PISELLO VIBRAM MILANO NUOVI ORIZZONTI MODENA THE NORTH FACE MODENA LIVIO SPORT SPORTMAN SPORTLAND MONIGA PATAGONIA MONTEBELLUNA ROSSIGNOL MONTEBELLUNA SALEWA OUTLET MONTEBELLUNA VIBRAM MONTEBELLUNA ROCK & WALLS PURE NATURE WILD PROJECT THE CHANGE CRAZY STORE MORBEGNO PATAGONIA MORBEGNO SPORT HUB MORI MICARELLI STORE ARBITER UNTERHOLZNER GRANDE GRIMPE PERICO SPORT SPORTLAND TORINO ETNA WALL SERVOLARE 17 RUNWAY SPORT SPORT LAURIN

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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR CREAZZO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO DARFO BOARIO TERME DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESIO DIMARO FOLGARIDA DOBBIACO DOBBIACO DOLZAGO DOMODOSSOLA DOMODOSSOLA DOMODOSSOLA DUEVILLE FAENZA FALCADE FANO FAVRIA FELTRE FELTRE FERMO FERRARA FERRARA FERRARA FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIUMALBO FORLÌ FORLÌ FORMIGINE FORMIGLIANA FOSSANO FRABOSA SOTTANA FROSSASCO GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA PRA' GIAVENO GODEGA S. URBANO GRADISCA D’ISONZO GRAVELLONA TOCE GRESSONEY-SAINT-JEAN GROSSETO GUSSAGO ISEO ISERA ISERNIA IVREA L'AQUILA L’AQUILA L’AQUILA LA VALLE AGORDINA LA VILLA LANA LECCO LECCO LEVATA LIMONE PIEMONTE LISSONE LISSONE LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LOCATE DI TRIULZI LONATO LONGARONE LOVER LUCCA LUCCA LUINO LUTAGO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MANARO SUL PANARO MANAROLA MANTA MANTOVA MANTOVA MARTELLAGO MATELICA MEOLO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERATE MESTRE MEZZOLOMBARDO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MODENA MODENA MOENA MONDOVÌ MONIGA MONTEBELLUNA MONTEBELLUNA MONTEBELLUNA MONTEBELLUNA MONTESACRO MONTESILVANO MONTESILVANO MORBEGNO MORBEGNO MORI MUCCIA NAPOLI NATURNO NEMBRO NEMBRO NICHELINO NICOLOSI NICOLOSI NOICATTARO NOVA LEVANTE

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ALBY SPORT DF SPORT SPECIALIST OLGIATE DF SPORT SPECIALIST ORIO SALEWA ORIO CENTER THE NORTH FACE ORIO UNDER ARMOUR MAMMUT ORTISEI SPORT GARDENA SPORT SCHMALZ SPORTLAND ORZINUOVI FREE TIME STORE SPORTLAND OSPITALETTO BIG WALL LA COCCINELLA ACTIVE CREMA SPORT INTELLIGHENZIA PROJECT SALEWA PADOVA SPORTLAND PALAZZOLO PELLISSIER SPORT PIRCHER GUNTHER ALPSTATION PARMA FREE SPORT MOVE MOUNTAIN LOVERS SEVEN SUMMITS FERRARI SPORT SPORTWAY NOVARA OLIUNÌD MILANO UKU PACHA MONDO VERTICALE SPAZIOUTDOOR ALTA QUOTA PESCARA KING LINE RRTREK PESCASSEROLI DF SPORT SPECIALIST PIACENZA L'ALTROSPORT OUTLANDERS SPORT IN MONTAGNA OUTDOOR LIFE VERTICAL PIETRAMURATA PIANETA SPORT ASPORTSTATION STIMM ZAMBERLAN ARIAPERTA M.C.RUNNING ONBOARD EUROSPORT SPORT HUB PINZOLO SPORTLAND PISOGNE SELMI TECHNOSPORT VALLEE SPORT PEAK PERFORMANCE STORE AMORINI OUTDOOR SPORTWAY PONTE KAPPAEMME SPORT MOUNTAIN SHOP BERGAMO SPORTLER PORDENONE TOFFOLI SPORT MIVAL SPORT LA SPORTIVA POZZA DI FASSA BLOSSOM SKI IL CAMPIONE PRATO SALEWA PREDAZZO V10 BERGFUCHS OVERLANDER OUTDOOR RAVENNA ROSSIGNOL UDINE REGGIO GAS A1 CLIMBING GINETTO SPORT MONTAGNA VERTICALE SALVATORI SPORT THE NORTH FACE RIMINI PERTINGER MOUNTAIN SICKS SPORT NATURA ALP3 MONTAGNA ALTA QUOTA ROMA BOTTIGLIERIA CAMPO BASE ROMA CLIMBER STORE GEOSTA LBM SPORT MONTURA ROMA MOUNTAIN AFFAIR ROMA ONERACE OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE PATAGONIA ROMA ROCK IT ROSSIGNOL PARMA RRTREK ROMA STAR WALL THE NORTH FACE THE NORTH FACE THE NORTH FACE UNDER ARMOUR STORE OMNIA SPORT SPORTLAND RONCADELLE SHERPA ATLANTE MONTELLO BLOCK3 CABAS SPORT CABAS SPORT MAKALU' SPORT MONTURA ROVERETO SPORTLIFEE MACIACONI ANIMA SPORTIVA PIÙ SPORT ALPSTATION AOSTA PAPIN SPORT SPORT HOLZER LAGAZOI SPORT SPORT HUB CHIAVENNA DF S.G. MILANESE SPORTLAND SAN LEONARDO SPORTLER SAN MARTINO TURNOVER SPORT SAN MARTINO SPORT SLALOM CLASSIC SLALOM DONNA SLALOM SPORT PARETI WEGER UNICO SPORT ALPSTATION BRESCIA NEW VIAGGIANDO GIUGLAR LAB IS SPORT FAMA SPORT ALPSTATION SARZANA 3.30 RUNNING STORE BESSON SPORT GIUGGIA SPORT MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE ALPSTATION SCHIO MAX SPORT VALLI SPORT PIANETA CICLO ART CLIMB BRUNO SPORT ACTIV SPORT CABOT COVE OUTDOOR CAFÈ SALEWA OUTLET SERRAVALLE KINIGER SPORTMODE MAXI SPORT SESTO S.G. XL MOUNTAIN IL MARATONETA SPORT RONDIRO PASSSPORT SIGNORESSA SPORTLER CLIMBING CENTER SPORTLER TREVISO DF SPORT SPECIALIST SIRTORI ALTERNATIVA SPORT ALPIN SPORTS K&K SPORTS ROCK & ICE SOLDA SALEWA OUTLET VERONA CENTRO SPORT FIORELLI SPORT SONDRIO SPORTLAND SONICO CAMPO BASE SPILAMBERTO BERGER SCHUKE SPORTLAND STEZZANO SPORTLAND SUZZARA ALPSTATION TARVISIO SPORTLER TAVAGNACCO ZANI SPORT

NOVALESA OLGIATE OLONA ORIO AL SERIO ORIO AL SERIO ORIO AL SERIO ORIO AL SERIO ORTISEI ORTISEI ORTISEI ORZINUOVI OSIMO OSPITALETTO OSTERIA DEL GATTO, FOSSATO DI VICO OVINDOLI PADOVA PADOVA PADOVA PADOVA PALAZZOLO SULL’OGLIO PAQUIER PARCINES PARMA PARMA PARMA PAVULLO NEL FRIGNANO PERGINE VALSUGANA PERNATE PERO PERTOSA PERUGIA PERUGIA PESCARA PESCARA PESCASSEROLI PIACENZA PIACENZA PIACENZA PIANCOGNO PIANELLA PIETRAMURATA PIETRASANTA PIEVE D’ALPAGO PIEVE DI SOLIGO PIEVE DI TORREBELVICINO PINEROLO PINEROLO PINEROLO PINZOLO PINZOLO PISOGNE PISTOIA PLAN FELINAZ PONT SAINT MARTIN PONTE DI LEGNO BS PONTE FELCINO PONTE NELLE ALPI PONTE SELVA DI PARRE PONTERANICA PORDENONE PORDENONE POVE DEL GRAPPA POZZA DI FASSA PRATA CAMPORTACCIO PRATO PREDAZZO QUARTU SANT’ELENA RASEN-ANTHOLZ SÜDTIROL RAVENNA RAVENNA REANA DEL ROJALE REGGIO EMILIA REGGIO EMILIA REGGIO EMILIA RIETI RIETI RIMINI RIO DI PUSTERIA RIVAROLO CANAVESE ROCCA DI MEZZO ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMAGNANO SESIA RONCADELLE RONCO BRIANTINO RORETO DI CHERASCO ROVERETO ROVERETO ROVERETO ROVERETO ROVERETO RUFFRE' - MENDOLA S. CRISTINA SACILE SACILE SAINT CHRISTOPHE SAN CANDIDO SAN CANDIDO SAN CASSIANO SAN CASSIANO SAN GIULIANO MILANESE SAN LEONARDO IN PASSIRIA SAN MARTINO BUON ALBERGO SAN MARTINO BUON ALBERGO SAN MARTINO DI CASTROZZA SAN MARTINO DI CASTROZZA SAN MARTINO DI CASTROZZA SAN MARTINO DI CASTROZZA SAN PANCRAZIO SAN PAOLO SAN VENDEMIANO SAN ZENO NAVIGLIO SANSEPOLCRO SANT'AMBROGIO SANT’AGOSTINO SARONNO SARZANA SASSUOLO SAUZE D’OULX SAVIGLIANO SAVIGNANO SUL RUBICONE SCHIO SCHIO SCHIO SCOPPITO SEDICO SELVA GARDENA SELVA VAL GARDENA SENIGALLIA SERAVALLE SCRIVIA SESTO SESTO SAN GIOVANNI SETTIMO VITTONE SIENA SIENA SIGNORESSA SILEA SILEA SIRTORI SISTIANA SIUSI SIUSI SOLDA SONA SONDRIO SONDRIO SONICO SPILAMBERTO ST. NIKOLAUS ULTEN STEZZANO SUZZARA TARVISIO TAVAGNACCO TEMU

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PIÙ SPORT 502. PIÙ SPORT IOCORRO! 503. IOCORRO! VERTIGINI SPORT 504. VERTIGINI SPORT MONTURA FIEMME 505. MONTURA FIEMME SPORT VENTURA 506. SPORT VENTURA CRAZY STORE507. TIRANOCRAZY STORE TIRANO TECNICAL SKI508. TECNICAL SKI ALPSTATION TORINO 509. ALPSTATION TORINO ASD BOULDER 510. BAR ASD BOULDER BAR BSHOP BRACCINI 511. BSHOP BRACCINI BSHOP RAVINA 512. BSHOP RAVINA BSIDE CLIMBING 513. VILLAGE BSIDE CLIMBING VILLAGE CUORE DA SPORTIVO 514. CUORE DA SPORTIVO FERRINO STORE 515. TORINO FERRINO STORE TORINO FRESH STORE516. FRESH STORE GRASSI SPORT 517. TORINO GRASSI SPORT TORINO JOLLY SPORT518. JOLLY SPORT JOLLY SPORT519. JOLLY SPORT MIZUNO STORE 520. MIZUNO STORE MONTURA TORINO 521. MONTURA TORINO PASSION SPORT 522. PASSION SPORT RONCO ALPINISMO 523. RONCO ALPINISMO SALEWA TORINO 524. SALEWA TORINO SASP 525. SASP THE NORTH FACE 526. TORINO THE NORTH FACE TORINO GULLIVER TORRE 527. PELLICE GULLIVER TORRE PELLICE SPORTLER VICENZA 528. SPORTLER VICENZA LEZARD 529. LEZARD CATTI SPORT 530. CATTI SPORT LA SPORTIVA531. TRENTOLA SPORTIVA TRENTO MONTURA TRENTO 532. MONTURA TRENTO ROCK & ICE TRENTO 533. ROCK & ICE TRENTO SHERPA3 PATAGONIA 534. SHERPA3 PATAGONIA SPORTLER ALPIN 535. TRENTO SPORTLER ALPIN TRENTO SPORTLER TRENTO 536. SPORTLER TRENTO TECNOSCI 537. TECNOSCI VERTICAL SPORT 538. TRENTO VERTICAL SPORT TRENTO MAGNITUDO539. MAGNITUDO LE BLOC SHOP 540. LE BLOC SHOP ALPSTATION TRIESTE 541. ALPSTATION TRIESTE AVVENTURA 542. DUE AVVENTURA DUE SPORTLER TRIESTE 543. SPORTLER TRIESTE FIASCARIS 544. FIASCARIS K2 SPORT 545. K2 SPORT SPORT CENTER 546. SPORT CENTER SPORT CORONES 547. SPORT CORONES SPORT MODE548. MARIA SPORT MODE MARIA FIORELLI SPORT 549.VALMASINO FIORELLI SPORT VALMASINO SALEWA OUTLET 550.VALMONTONE SALEWA OUTLET VALMONTONE BASE CAMP 551. BASE CAMP SKICENTER 552. SKICENTER LODO SPORT553. LODO SPORT VERNAZZA SPORT 554. VERNAZZA SPORT CAMPO BASE555. VERONA CAMPO BASE VERONA MONTURA VERONA 556. MONTURA VERONA ROSSIGNOL VERONA 557. ROSSIGNOL VERONA THE NORTH FACE 558. VERONA THE NORTH FACE VERONA CONTROCORRENTE 559. CONTROCORRENTE MARATONANDO 560. MARATONANDO OLIUNID VICENZA 561. OLIUNID VICENZA GILIOLI SPORT 562. GILIOLI SPORT MONDO MONTAGNA 563. MONDO MONTAGNA VERTICAL NO564. LIMIT VERTICAL NO LIMIT DHO SPORT 565. DHO SPORT ROSSI 566. ROSSI SPORTLAND 567. VILLANUOVA SPORTLAND VILLANUOVA AFFARI & SPORT 568.VILLASANTA AFFARI & SPORT VILLASANTA BAROLI SPORT 569. BAROLI SPORT CALZATURE BAROLI 570. CALZATURE BAROLI HERBERT PLANK 571. SPORT HERBERT PLANK SPORT RUNNER 572. RUNNER HELLWEGER INTERSPORT 573. HELLWEGER INTERSPORT LA SPORTIVA574. ZIANO DI LAFIEMME SPORTIVA ZIANO DI FIEMME TIRABOSCHI 575. SPORT TIRABOSCHI SPORT CRAS 576. CRAS TABIA SPORT577. TABIA SPORT

TERAMO TERNI TERNI TESERO TESERO TIRANO TOLMEZZO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORRE PELLICE TORRI DI QUARTESOLO TRADATE TRAVERSETOLO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TRENTO TREVISO TRIESTE TRIESTE TRIESTE UDINE UDINE VAL DI VIZZE 19 VALDAORA VALLES VALMASINO VALMONTONE VALSESIA VARNA VERMIGLIO VERNAZZA VERONA VERONA VERONA VERONA VIADANA VIAREGGIO VICENZA VIGNOLA VIGNOLA VILLAIR-AMERIQUE VILLANOVA MONDOVI VILLANOVA MONDOVI VILLANUOVA SUL CLISI VILLASANTA VILLENEUVE VILLENEUVE VIPITENO VITERBO WELSBERG-TAISTEN ZIANO DI FIEMME ZOGNO ZOLA PREDOSA ZOLDO ALTO

Germany 578. 579. 580. 581. 582. 583. 584. 585. 586. 587. 588. 589. 590. 591. 592. 593. 594. 595. 596. 597. 598. 599. 600. 601. 602. 603. 604. 605. 606. 607. 608. 609. 610. 611. 612. 613. 614. 615. 616. 617. 618. 619. 620. 621. 622. 623. 624. 625. 626. 627. 628. 629. 630. 631. 632. 633. 634. 635. 636. 637. 638. 639. 640. 641. 642. 643. 644. 645. 646. 647.

MOUNTAIN-SPORTS 578. MOUNTAIN-SPORTS ROHRMEIER 579. OUTDOOR ROHRMEIER OUTDOOR CONDITION STEIGENBERGER 580. CONDITION STEIGENBERGER BERGSPORTHÜTTE 581. BERGSPORTHÜTTE RIAP SPORT 582. RIAP SPORT STADT LAND 583. FLUSS STADT LAND FLUSS BERGSPORT GEISTALLER 584. BERGSPORT GEISTALLER CAMP 4 585. CAMP 4 GLOBETROTTER 586.BERLIN GLOBETROTTER BERLIN MONT K 587. MONT K PATAGONIA BERLIN 588. PATAGONIA BERLIN THE NORTH FACE 589. BERLIN THE NORTH FACE BERLIN UNTERWEGS 590. BIELEFELD UNTERWEGS BIELEFELD KRENN MODE 591. UND SPORT KRENN MODE UND SPORT GLOBETROTTER 592.BONN GLOBETROTTER BONN UNTERWEGS 593. BONN UNTERWEGS BONN UNTERWEGS 594. BREMENUNTERWEGS BREMEN UNTERWEGS 595. CELLE UNTERWEGS CELLE DER SKANDINAVIER 596. DER SKANDINAVIER MAGIC MOUNT 597.ALLESMAGIC MOUNT ALLES GLOBETROTTER 598.DRESDEN GLOBETROTTER DRESDEN UNTERWEGS 599. DUISBURG UNTERWEGS DUISBURG GLOBETROTTER 600.DÜSSELDORF GLOBETROTTER DÜSSELDORF SACK & PACK601. SACK & PACK UNTERWEGS 602. ERFURTUNTERWEGS ERFURT FREILAUF 603. FREILAUF BERGSPORT MÜHLBAUER 604. BERGSPORT MÜHLBAUER UNTERWEGS 605. FLENSBURG UNTERWEGS FLENSBURG GLOBETROTTER 606.FRANKFURT GLOBETROTTER FRANKFURT SALEWA STORE 607. FREIBURG SALEWA STORE FREIBURG SPORT BOHNY 608. SPORT BOHNY SPORT KIEFER 609. SPORT KIEFER DOOROUT.COM 610. DOOROUT.COM NORDWAND611. SPORTSNORDWAND SPORTS ALPINSPORT 612. BASIS ALPINSPORT BASIS BERGSPORT WN 613. ALPIN BERGSPORT WN ALPIN SPORT CONRAD 614. GARMISCH SPORT CONRAD GARMISCH BERGZEIT 615. BERGZEIT GLOBETROTTER 616.HAMBURG GLOBETROTTER HAMBURG GLOBETROTTER 617. HAMBURG GLOBETROTTER HAMBURG UNTERWEGS 618. HAMM UNTERWEGS HAMM BSZ BERGSPORTZENTRALE 619. BSZ BERGSPORTZENTRALE ADVENTURE 620. COMPANY ADVENTURE COMPANY SPORT NENNER 621. SPORT NENNER BERGZEIT 622. BERGZEIT UNTERWEGS 623. HÖXTERUNTERWEGS HÖXTER SPORT CONRAD 624.IFFELDORF SPORT CONRAD IFFELDORF UNTERWEGS 625. JEVER UNTERWEGS JEVER BASISLAGER 626. SPORT HANDELS BASISLAGER SPORT HANDELS SCENIC SPORTS 627. SCENIC SPORTS BERGSPORT MAXI 628. BERGSPORT MAXI UNTERWEGS 629. KIEL UNTERWEGS KIEL GLOBETROTTER 630. GLOBETROTTER GLOBETROTTER 631.KÖLNGLOBETROTTER KÖLN SPORT GRUNER 632. SPORT GRUNER ALPINSPORTZENTRALE 633. ALPINSPORTZENTRALE ALPEN STRAND 634. ALPEN STRAND 635. LEIPZIG THE NORTH FACE THE NORTH FACE LEIPZIG UNTERWEGS 636. LEIPZIG UNTERWEGS LEIPZIG BIWAK 637. BIWAK EISELIN SPORT 638. EISELIN SPORT ALPIN OUTDOOR 639. LADEN ALPIN OUTDOOR LADEN ENGELHORN640. SPORTSENGELHORN SPORTS OUTDOORTRENDS 641. OUTDOORTRENDS MAGIC MOUNT 642. MAGIC MOUNT GLOBETROTTER 643.MÜNCHEN GLOBETROTTER MÜNCHEN KELLER SPORTS 644. KELLER SPORTS KELLER SPORTS 645. KELLER SPORTS PATAGONIA MÜNCHEN 646. PATAGONIA MÜNCHEN RUMRICH STONE 647. PROJECTS RUMRICH STONE PROJECTS

ANSBACH ASCHAFFENBURG ASCHAU AUGSBURG BAD REICHENHALL BAD TÖLZ BERCHTESGADEN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BIELEFELD BISCHOFSWIESEN BONN BONN BREMEN CELLE COBURG DORTMUND DRESDEN DUISBURG DÜSSELDORF DÜSSELDORF ERFURT ERLANGEN FELDKIRCHEN WESTERHAM FLENSBURG FRANKFURT AM MAIN FREIBURG FREIBURG FREIBURG FULDA FÜSSEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GMUND-MOOSRAIN HAMBURG HAMBURG HAMM HANNOVER HEILBRONN HINTERTUX HOLZKIRCHEN / GROSSHARTPENNING HÖXTER IFFELDORF JEVER KARLSRUHE KAUFBEUREN KEMPTEN 87435 KIEL KÖLN KÖLN KONSTANZ LANDSBERG AM LECH LANDSHUT LEIPZIG LEIPZIG LIMBURG LÖRRACH MAINZ MANNHEIM MARKTOBERDORF MENDEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN

648. 649. 650. 651. 652. 653. 654. 655. 656. 657. 658. 659. 660. 661. 662. 663. 664. 665. 666. 667. 668. 669. 670. 671. 672. 673. 674. 675. 676. 677.

SCHUSTER SPORTHAUS THE NORTH FACE MUNICH UNTERWEGS MÜNSTER SPORT CONRAD MURNAU SPORTHAUS SCHÖNHERR TRAVEL & TREK BASTIAN SALEWA STORE OBERSTDORF SCHRATT 1803 UNTERWEGS OLDENBURG DER OUTDOORLADEN DENK SPORT CONRAD PENZBERG E-XPLOSION GIPFELSTÜRMER LAUF UND BERG KÖNIG SALEWA STORE REGENSBURG MONTAGNE-SPORT BERGWERKER STUTTGART GLOBETROTTER STUTTGART GLOBETROTTER HARZ SCHNEIDER RAD+SPORT VIKING ADVENTURES BIWAKSCHACHTEL GLOBETROTTER ULM SALEWA OUTLET WERTHEIM UNTERWEGS WESEL SPORT CONRAD WIELENBACH UNTERWEGS WILHELMSHAVEN BASISLAGER WÜRZBURG SALEWA OUTLET ZWEIBRÜCKEN

MÜNCHEN MUNICH MÜNSTER MURNAU NEUSTIFT NÜRNBERG OBERSTDORF OBERSTDORF OLDENBURG PADERBORN PASSAU PENZBERG PFORZHEIM RAVENSBURG REGENSBURG REGENSBURG ROSENHEIM STUTTGART STUTTGART TORFHAUS (HARZ) TRAUNSTEIN TRIER TÜBINGEN ULM WERTHEIM WESEL WIELENBACH WILHELMSHAVEN WÜRZBURG ZWEIBRÜCKEN

Austria 678. 679. 680. 681. 682. 683. 684. 685. 686. 687. 688. 689. 690. 691. 692. 693. 694. 695. 696. 697. 698. 699. 700. 701. 702. 703. 704. 705. 706. 707.

ALPIN LOACKER ALPIN LOACKER ALPSTATION INNSBRUCK BERGFUCHS BLACK DIAMOND INNSBRUCK BERGSPORT BERGWERK HIGH LIFE HANDELS KAMAX BOOTS ONSIGHT BERGSPORT PATAGONIA INNSBRUCK PETE SPORT PETE SPORT ROCKNROLL MOUNTAIN STORE ROCKNROLL MOUNTAIN STORE SALEWA OUTLET PARNDORF SALEWA STORE HÖRHAGER SALEWA STORE LINZ SALEWA STORE SAALFELDEN SALEWA STORE SALZBURG SALEWA STORE SCHLADMING SALEWA STORE WIEN SPORT HILBRAND SPORT4YOU SPORTLER SPORTLER SPORTLER WITTING STEPPENWOLF THE NORTH FACE INNSBRUCK ZIMML ALPINAUSSTATTER

BERGHEIM SALZBURG BLUDENZ GÖTZIS GÖTZIS GRAZ INNSBRUCK INNSBRUCK INNSBRUCK INNSBRUCK INNSBRUCK KIRCHDORF IN TIROL KIRCHDORF IN TIROL KUFSTEIN LIENZ LIENZ LINZ MAYRHOFEN MITTELBERG PARNDORF SAALFELDEN SCHLADMING SÖLDEN ST. ANTON AM ARLBER ST. ANTON AM ARLBERG ST. ANTON ARLBERG STEYR WIEN WIEN WÖRTHERSEE ZAMS

Switzerland 708. 709. 710. 711. 712. 713. 714. 715. 716. 717. 718. 719. 720. 721. 722. 723. 724. 725.

TRANSA BASEL TRANSA BERN BÄCHLI BERGSPORT STILE ALPINO LUGANO PLANET ENDURANCE TRANSA LUCERNE DF SPORT SPECIALIST LUGANO SALEWA STORE PONTRESINA STILE ALPINO SAMEDAN BOOSPORT TRANSA ST. GALLEN MONTAIN-AIR BAYARD SPORT SALEWA STORE ZERMATT THE NORTH FACE ZERMATT THE NORTH FACE ZURICH TRANSA ZURICH BÄCHLI BERGSPORT

BASEL BERN BERN-BREITENRAIN CANOBBIO ECUBLENS LUCERNE LUGANO PONTRESINA SAMEDAN SIERRE ST. GALLEN VERBIER ZERMATT ZERMATT ZERMATT ZURICH ZURICH ZURICH-OERLIKON

France 726. 727. 728. 729. 730. 731. 732. 733. 734. 735. 736. 737. 738. 739. 740. 741. 742. 743. 744. 745. 746. 747. 748. 749. 750. 751. 752. 753. 754. 755. 756. 757. 758. 759. 760. 761. 762. 763. 764. 765. 766. 767. 768. 769.

AU VIEUX CAMPEUR ALBERTVILLE CYRIL'S SPORT PICTURE SNOWLEADER ANNECY THE NORTH FACE ANNECY CHULLANKA ANTIBES PEYTAVIN SPORT SPORTS AVENTURE AU VIEUX CAMPEUR CHAMBÉRY EKOSPORT PATAGONIA CHAMONIX THE NORTH FACE CHAMONIX ARC’TERYX CHAMONIX SNELL SPORTS SNOWLEADER CHAMONIX COQUOZ SPORTS SNELL SPORT SNOWLEADER D'AVENTURE EN AVENTURE ENDURANCE SHOP EPINAL LE SHOP TWINNER S'CAPE FONTAINEBLEAU APPROACH GAP ALTITUDE SPORT OUTDOOR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR GRENOBLE MONTAZ AU VIEUX CAMPEUR LABÈGE ESPACE MONTAGNE AU VIEUX CAMPEUR LYON SNOWLEADER LYON THE NORTH FACE LYON AU VIEUX CAMPEUR MARSEILLE CAP RUNNING CHULLANKA THE NORTH FACE NANTES ALTICOOP AU VIEUX CAMPEUR PARIS THE NORTH FACE PARIS THE NORTH FACE PARIS OPERA THE NORTH FACE ALPY'RANDO ENDURANCE MONTANIA SPORT

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ALBERTVILLE ALPE-D'HUEZ ANNECY ANNECY ANNECY ANTIBES BAYONNE BORDEAUX CHAMBÉRY CHAMBÉRY CHAMONIX CHAMONIX CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MT-BLANC CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC CHAVANOD CLERMONT FERRAND EPINAL FONT ROMEU FONT ROMEU FONTAINEBLEAU GAP GERARDMER GRENOBLE LA RAVOIR LABÈGE LE GRAND EPAGNY LYON LYON LYON MARSEILLE MARSEILLE MERIGNAC NANTES NICE PARIS PARIS PARIS PARIS PAU RODEZ SAINT ALBAN LEYSSE

770. 771. 772. 773. 774. 775. 776. 777.

TWINNER SAINT GERVAIS ESPACE MONTAGNE AU VIEUX CAMPEUR SALLANCHES AU VIEUX CAMPEUR THE NORTH FACE STRASBOURG AU VIEUX CAMPEUR CHULLANKA TOULOUSE TERRE DE MONTAGNE

SAINT GERVAIS SAINT MARTIN D'HERES SALLANCHES STRASBOURG STRASBOURG THONON LES BAINS TOULOUSE VILLE LA GRAND

778. 779. 780. 781. 782. 783. 784. 785. 786. 787. 788. 789. 790. 791. 792. 793. 794. 795. 796. 797. 798. 799. 800. 801. 802. 803. 804. 805. 806. 807. 808. 809. 810. 811. 812. 813. 814. 815. 816. 817. 818. 819. 820. 821. 822. 823. 824. 825. 826. 827. 828. 829. 830. 831. 832. 833. 834. 835. 836. 837. 838.

TRAILXTREM ALCOBENDAS EL REFUGIO DEPORTES DIAGONAL ALMERIA VILADOMAT ALP SPORTS CAMP BASE INTERPERIE CAMP BASE NUS CUYLÁS BARCELONA EQUIPA'T GROWOLD MONTANYÀ SALEWA STORE BARCELONA SHARMA CLIMBING THE NORTH FACE BARCELONA VÈRTIC BARCELONA BARRABÉS RÍOS RUNNING BERGA SERAC SPORT HAMAIKA MOUNTAIN THE NORTH FACE BILBAO ARMERIA Y AVENTURA SUMMIT MOUNTAIN ESPORTS ROC VERTICAL AL COXINILLO MACHAPUCHARE ARISTARUN GOMA 2 TECNIC ESPORTS ANDORRA TRAMUNTANA ESPORTS ESPORTS NABES DEPORTES SHERPA GRANADA ILLA SPORTS DEPORTES CHARLI JACA BLACKISARD MOUNTAIN K2 PLANET CUYLÁS MADRID DEPORTES KOALA OUTDOOR SIN LÍMITE THE NORTH FACE MADRID DEPORTES LA TRUCHA RÍOS RUNNING MANRESA VÈRTIC SABADELL VÈRTIC MANRESA EVORUNNER FACTOR 2 CARVING ESPORTS CAMP BASE C17 LA SPORTIVA RODELLAR CAMP BASE SANT CUGAT AGOSTI XTREME SPORT PEREGRINOTECA.COM DEPORTEMANIA TANGOSENLAROCA.COM DEPORTES AITANA L’AVENTURA THE NORTH FACE VALENCIA DEPORTES ALVARADO TERRA DEPORTE AVENTURA SALEWA OUTLET VILADECANS CAMP BASE VITORIA DEPORTES GAIKAR KIROLAK

ALCOBENDAS ALICANTE ALMERÍA ANDORRA LA VELLA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BARCELONA BENASQUE BERGA BETXÍ BILBAO BILBAO BULLAS BURGOS CANILLO CHULLILA COLLADO VILLALBA CÓRDOBA CORNUDELLA DE MONTSANT ENCAMP GANDIA GIRANA GRANADA GRANOLLERS JACA LA BISBAL D'EMPORDÀ LEÓN MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID MÁLAGA MANRESA MANRESA MANRESA MORALZARZAL MURCIA ORDINO PARETS DEL VALLÈ RODELLAR SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS SANTANDER SARRIA SEVILLA UTIEL VALENCIA VALENCIA VALENCIA VALÈNCIA VIGO VILADECANS VITORIA-GASTEIZ VITORIA-GASTEIZ

Spain

The Netherlands 839. 840. 841. 842. 843. 844. 845. 846. 847. 848. 849. 850. 851. 852. 853. 854. 855. 856. 857. 858. 859. 860. 861. 862. 863. 864. 865. 866. 867. 868. 869. 870. 871. 872. 873. 874. 875. 876.

BEVER ALMERE BEVER AMERSFOORT BEHIND THE PINES BEVER AMSTERDAM BEVER AMSTERDAM CARL DENIG KATHMANDU AMSTERDAM MONK AMSTERDAM THE NORTH FACE AMSTERDAM BEVER APELDOORN BEVER ARNHEM BEVER ASSEN BEVER BREDA BEVER DEN HAAG BEVER DEN HAAG HUNA OUTDOOR SHOP BEVER DEVENTER BEVER DOETINCHEM BEVER EINDHOVEN MONK EINDHOVEN BEVER ENSCHEDE RENÉ VOS OUTDOOR BEVER GRONINGEN SOELLAART BEVER HENGELO BEVER HILVERSUM BEVER HOUTEN BEVER NIJMEGEN KATHMANDU NIJMEGEN OUTDOOR & TRAVEL OUTFITTERS BEVER ROTTERDAM BEVER S-HERTOGENBOSCH BEVER STEENWIJK BEVER TILBURG BEVER UTRECHT KATHMANDU UTRECHT THE NORTH FACE UTRECHT ZWERFKEI OUTDOOR

ALMERE AMERSFOORT AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM APELDOORN ARNHEM ASSEN BREDA DEN HAAG DEN HAAG DEN HAAG DEVENTER DOETINCHEM EINDHOVEN EINDHOVEN ENSCHEDE GORSSEL GRONINGEN HAARLEM HENGELO HILVERSUM HOUTEN NIJMEGEN NIJMEGEN ROOSENDAAL ROTTERDAM S-HERTOGENBOSCH STEENWIJK TILBURG UTRECHT UTRECHT UTRECHT WOERDEN

877. 878. 879. 880. 881. 882. 883. 884. 885. 886. 887. 888. 889. 890. 891. 892.

NEEDLE SPORTS SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK LEEDS THE NORTH FACE THE NORTH FACE LONDON COTSWOLD OUTDOOR ELLIS BRIGHAM MOUNTAIN COTSWOLD OUTDOOR SNOW+ROCK LONDON CANARY SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK LONDON THE NORTH FACE VICTORIA SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK MANCHESTER PATAGONIA MANCHESTER SNOW+ROCK PORT SOLENT

KESWICK KNIGHTSBRIDGE LEEDS LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON MANCHESTER MANCHESTER PORTSMOUTH

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LAST WORD TEXT DAVIDE FIORASO

PHOTO CHRISTIAN PONDELLA

Edito One of the greatest difficulties nowadays is still being able to be amazed, to experience that overwhelming emotion of pure joy and inner peace that leads to smiling heartily, crying with emotion, making your spirit dance. Enjoying little things, admiring a sunrise, reading words, observing a nice gesture. Many values of life are getting out of hand; everything has become obvious. We are constantly looking for pleasure, beauty and wonder, thinking of finding them in continuous distractions, in exotic places, in a thousand things to do, to feel, to touch, to eat.

The problem is not the absence of sources, but our inability to be surprised, to find beauty in every part of the day. Life in close contact with nature activates our ability to be amazed. Touching the bark of trees, smelling the scent of a forest, listening to the sea, stepping on the mud of the countryside, speaking the language of animals are relationships that have to be established daily to be able to reach our most intuitive, wildest, truest part. If we move away from nature, we also move away from ourselves.

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