The Pill Journal 47 ENG

Alex Honnold

Alto Adige Trails

Nimsdai

He climbed many extremely difficult and long routes but he’s still able to be amazed and reinvent himself.

Ortles, Fundres and Dolomites Unesco Geotrail. Many hiking opportunities to discover South Tyrol.

In 2021, 10 Nepalese mountaineers embraced on the top of K2. Leading the expedition is Nirmal Purja.

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R E ACH YOU R PE AK Pick your way through the crux or spend an afternoon with friends scaling a tempting crag. From lightweight gear for sport climbers to rugged bouldering clothing, the Mammut Climbing collection has everything you need to up your game.

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EDITO TEXT DAVIDE FIORASO

PHOTO GIACOMO MENEGHELLO

M O N T E B I A N C O I TA LY

Edito On July 29th, we ran out of the earth's annual resources.

But what is the Earth Overshoot Day and why do we have to worry so much?

It is a symbolic date, in which humanity overshoots the natural resources that the planet is able to generate within a year. The analysis is carried out by the Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that monitors the ecological footprint of man. To determine this date, the planet's biocapacity is compared with the annual need for resources. But the only factor in this equation that can change is the second: the resources remain the same, we are the ones that waste more of them every year.

On the calendar, this day continues to slowly retreat. If in 2020, as a result of the pandemic, the date was set for August 22nd, organizations such as the WWF point out with concern that the situation is exactly the same as it was two years ago. "Humanity currently uses 74% more of the resources that the planet's ecosystems are able to regenerate". We can therefore say that we consume 1.7 lands per year. "From Earth Overshoot Day until the end of the year, humanity operates in a deficit of ecological spending. This expense is currently one of the largest since the world went into ecological overshoot in the early 1970s."

If one of the solutions for a sustainable future is a 50% carbon reduction, what we eat is also very important. 80% of species and habitat extinctions globally depend on current food systems. A reversal from a growth economy to an economy of well-being is necessary.

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As Gianfranco Bologna, honorary president of the Scientific Committee of WWF Italy, states, “now the accumulated ecological debt is equal to the 18year production of the earth. The global ecological deficit is much higher than the economic one and concerns the very basis of our life, because without a healthy and vital nature we do not have the fundamental elements that allow us to, first and foremost, breathe, drink and eat”.

From now until December 31st , 2021, remember that we will live every single day in deficit, towards a planet that is increasingly anxious to chase after us and provide us with what we need.

SPIRIT

THE CLIMBER'S SPIRIT.

Look minimal e ricerca dei migliori materiali per un futuro più sostenibile, SPIRIT è contaminazione tra mondi diversi, un inno alla libertà e allo spirito climbing. Tomaia in cotone riciclato e biologico, lacci derivati da materiali per imballaggio, mescola del battistrada in gomma riciclata e gomma naturale.

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Outsiders

by Nature A journey isn’t defined by a goal. It’s the moments inbetween. The lessons learned, the success in turmoil and the strong mindset. Changing your perspective and looking at things differently than before.

Staying present in the highs and most importantly the lows. It’s discovering beauty in the unexpected, success in the hard times and finding joy in the unanticipated. But most importantly, it’s the company you keep. The laughs, tears, happiness, frustration and anger shared together.

THE DAILY PILL

BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O

S E L L E R O YA L : T H E S U P P O R T C Y C L I S T S O N T H E R O A D P R O J E C T H A S R E S TA R T E D Support Cyclists has always been Selle Royal's mission. In the middle of the two-wheel boom, the small van that has been touring Europe since 2018 to support cycle tourism is starting again: more than 2000 bikes repaired, over 5000 coffees offered and more than 7000 cyclists met. A real traveling workshop, with a coffee machine and a Bristot blend to satisfy the most demanding palates. Mantua will close the summer program, which will welcome the van on September 12th, during the Literature Festival.

THE WINNERS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN OUTDOOR AWARDS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED The Scandinavian Outdoor Group international jury has announced the winners of the SS2022 season. Inclusiveness and sustainability were the keywords of this edition, won, in the respective categories, by Finnish brands. The absolute award went to Sasta with the Mella+ Jacket designed specifically for oversized women. The second recognition, the Sustainability Award, went to Halti for the Reissu W DX 3L Jacket, an elegant long-cut shell with recycled content.

PA N E R A I C E L E B R AT E S P H OTO G R A P H E R J I M M Y C H I N W I T H T WO E D I T I O N S O F S U B M E R S I B L E Mountaineer, photographer and director. Winner of one Academy Award and seven Emmy Awards. Jimmy Chin, Officine Panerai ambassador, recently helped to brand two exclusive versions of the Submersible Chrono Flyback.

The Jimmy Chin Edition, in 100 pieces, features a 47mm case, brushed titanium bezel and P.9100 self-winding movement. The Xperience Edition, in just 14 units, with matte black DLC coating, instead includes the opportunity to spend a week of adventures with Chin in Jackson Hole.

G A R M I N : T H E 2 0 21 B E AT Y E S T E R DAY AWA R D S A P P L I CAT I O N S A R E O P E N The 2021 edition of the Garmin Beat Yesterday Awards, the awards that reward the passion and determination to achieve great and new goals, is starting. It is now possible to present your project (through a dedicated form on Garmin.com website) which will be evaluated by a jury made up of specialized technicians and big names in the sport sector. The most interesting and deserving applications will be supported by Garmin with its satellite equipment and technical assistance.

R A B & LOW E A L P I N E I N S U P P O R T O F WO M E N ' S T R A D F E S T I VA L 2 0 21 For the sixth consecutive year Rab and Lowe Alpine will be supporting the Women's Trad Festival, a one-of-a-kind event held in August on the Peak District's gritstone. The participation of the Equip Outdoor Technologies brands includes product tests, conferences, interactive workshops, sustainability talks and a goose down recycling point. Launched in 2016, the WTF aims to create an inclusive network of trad climbers and to promote the positive effects of climbing on mental well-being.

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Leave nothing behind

Thule Tepui Foothill Spaziosa tenda sul tetto della tua auto che ospita due adulti e si chiude in modo compatto, preservando spazio prezioso sul tetto per trasportare anche bici, kayak e altro materiale per la tua prossima avventura.

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THE DAILY PILL

BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O

T H E N O R T H FAC E P R E S E N T S T H E N E W “ H AV E YO U E V E R ” CA M PA I G N Designed to celebrate those moments in life that recall the spirit of adventure, the new The North Face campaign encourages you to go out and discover moments to live and from which to draw great emotions. Throughout the summer, the European Never Stop communities will organize weekly appointments to involve enthusiasts and to practice outdoor activities such as trail running, climbing, hiking and more.

F E R R I N O B AS E CA M P S A R E B AC K AG A I N T H I S Y E A R Toesca, Caldenave and Pian dei Fiacconi are the three refuges chosen for summer 2021. Extremely different environments where you can experience a night under the stars, becoming, for a day, a Ferrino tester. Of particular note is the possibility offered by the Marmolada glacier, near Pian dei Fiacconi refuge, which was destroyed by an avalanche last December. “Using tents, like in a base camp, is a beautiful solution that allows you to experience the mountains in a more natural way” explains the manager of the refuge Guido Trevisan.

R E E B O K : H E R E A R E T H E C O M PA N I E S O N T H E L I S T FO R AC Q U I S I T I O N According to a Reuters report, the list of companies that will bid for the acquisition of Reebok will be Wolverine, Advent, CVC Capital Partners, Sycamore and Cerberus. On February 16th, Adidas announced its intention to divest the brand due to the low yield. According to the report, Wolverine Worldwide, owner of Saucony, Merrell and Sperry, is collaborating on the offering with Authentic Brands Group which owns, among others, Eddie Bauer, Spyder, Tretorn and Volcom.

N E W S E N I O R D E S I G N E R S FO R H O K A O N E O N E Hoka One One adds two new senior designers to the team to lead its next chapter. Evie Moe joins as first senior director. The newly elected was Vice President of Design at Cotopaxi and before that she held roles at New Balance. The figure of Matt Rask was instead included at the head of the footwear team. Rask was Senior Creative Director for Under Armour's running and outdoor divisions, lead designer at Smith Optics and senior designer at Nike.

K LY M I T AC Q U I R E D BY M AC N E I L L P R I D E G R O U P MacNeill Pride Group has added Klymit to its portfolio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Klymit is one of the leading manufacturers of camping equipment and sleeping gear, known for its particularly light and performing products. The Kaysville-based brand will join GCI Outdoor and ORCA, further enhancing MPG's offering in the outdoor recreation space and increasing its position as a leader in sporting goods. Cory Tholl, President and CEO of Klymit, will remain with the company.

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BEST MADE

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Lightweight, waterproof, breathable: perfect for trail running on rainy days. Alpine GTX is the new Dynafit jacket for fall 2021. Thanks to the innovative ZipOver system, the racing backpack and its contents stay dry even in pouring rain. Made of PFCfree Gore-Tex Paclite.

The coolest way to hydrate. Flat Canteen by Corkcicle is an exclusive travel bottle with double wall insulation. The new ergonomic design, similar to flasks, can hold up to 500ml of your favorite beverage. Available in an elegant gift box in the olive or total black version.

Inspired by military and work equipment, Tactical Field Office is the new frontier for creating a stable and durable workspace wherever you want.

A modular solution with an aluminum frame that folds up for easy transport.

It can be used separately from the 15L storage bag in 600D poly-fabric.

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3.HELINOX TACT I C A L F I E L D O F F I C E

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001 SHOES

SAFERRUN RIPCORD

KO-Z BA DA DA

001 marks the debut of the new Canadian brand founded by Willa and Nick Martire. A shoe that sets no limits on speed and distance, designed to demonstrate that performance and sustainability must run together. Upper and laces in bio-based Dyneema and recycled polyester, Vibram Litebase sole and midsole.

Voted as one of the best inventions of 2019 by Time Magazine, SaferRun Ripcord uses a siren with +120 decibels of volume to defend you from any attacks by animals (or people) during your runs. It can be conveniently attached to shorts or to a backpack and activated several times.

Deckers X Lab brings running technology in its new flip flop sandal with Meta Rocker geometry inherited from the Hoka One One house brand. The asymmetrical strap, the wider footbed and the ergonomic midsole in differentiated density EVA make each stride a pleasure trip.

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ROCK DFS GTX

The spearhead of the Crazy collection, for mountaineers who do not tolerate compromises. Outer fabric in water-repellent nylon, super light padding in the innovative Polartec Alpha Direct, ergonomic hood, large pockets with double-slider zip closure. Technical and performing cut, ideal for speed mountaineering.

A revolutionary pop-up cabin for your car trunk, designed to fit a wide variety of vehicles. The cubic shape, with a height of up to 2 meters, creates a real private sanctuary.

The waterproof fast folding structure allows it to be compacted in a 90cm diameter bag.

Heir to the historic Rock model, from which it draws the construction of the forefoot. A shoe for technical approach and light climbing, via ferratas and excursions. The new Dual Fit System double lacing system allows you to adjust the comfort and precision of the fit in the different phases of use.

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COUNT Y FOLD WALLET

D AY V E N T U R E B A C K PA C K C O O L E R

THE WOODBOOK

A foldable wallet designed as a solution to hold cards, cash and everyday tools in an organized and accessible way. Fits standard 3.5"x5" notebooks (Field Notes, Moleskine, Scout Book).

4 ounces of American leather cut, sewn and burnished by hand with great craftsmanship.

Thermal backpack with separate compartments. The insulated bottom is capable of keeping ice all day and fits a 6-can pack. The upper section can be used as an additional bag or refrigerator compartment. The water-resistant structure combines a base that allows it to stand up on its own.

Between 1888 and 1913, Romeyn Beck Hough collected wood samples to create what would become a work of breathtaking beauty, which set the standard for the study of trees and wood. In its 768 pages, Taschen's book painstakingly reproduces the 14 original volumes of American Woods.

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DEUTER IS FOR LEADING LIGHTS

FUTURA 25 SL deuter.com

#deuterforever

KILLER COLLABS

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The second collaboration between DSPTCH and Descente focuses on movement, comfort and all-round performance. This lightweight hooded jacket is a travel-ready garment made from Solotex 4-way stretch fabric with a water-repellent finish. It can be stored in the front pocket turning into a practical case.

CHPT3, the British cycling brand founded by former cyclist David Millar, has collaborated with Clothes Doctor for a customized version of the No.5 Eco Wash for Sportswear. A special formula to make sportswear last longer, with a lower environmental impact. Available in the 50, 250 and 500ml versions.

A collaboration that was born in Portland between two companies that love the great outdoors. X-Camper by Stahl is part of the new generation of aluminum braziers able to combine lightweight, strength and functionality.

Easy to clean and carry thanks to the exclusive shoulder strap made by the guys of Frost River.

4.SNOW PEAK X NEW BALANCE NIOBIUM CONCEPT 2

5 . L . L . B E A N X PE A N UTS S H ORT S L EE V E T- S H I RT

6.GRAMICCI X PARKS PROJECT GREEN LOOSE TAPERED PANTS

New Balance’s Tokyo Design Studio once again joins forces with Snow Peak. Following the same functional design as the previous 3 in 1 model, the Niobium Concept 2 takes on a summer silhouette in the shape of a sandal. It combines the Fresh Foam Hierro midsole with Vibram Megagrip sole and Fidlock straps.

L.L.Bean launched a one-of-a-kind collaboration inspired by Schulz's characters. Using archival drawings from Peanuts comics, the vast collection transports Snoopy and Woodstock to the wilds of Maine. Designed for the whole family, it includes clothing and fun accessories.

Since the 1980s, Gramicci pants have been the embodiment of all the functional features that climbers need.

Each purchase of this collaboration will finance the non-profit organization Access Fund and the Public Land Project, in supporting initiatives to protect American climbing areas.

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Endorphin Collection 2.0 Let your speed run wild.

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A lifestyle collection made unique by Meguru Yamaguchi's rebellious brushstrokes, in which each model pays homage to freedom of movement and expression. The Oakley Sutro redefine the look of traditional sports eyewear.

Inspired by the daily life of urban cyclists, they give a bold and versatile look thanks to the wraparound single lens.

A collaboration that brings a different perspective to cycling, combining the psychedelic vision of Misha Hollenbach and Shauan Toohey with the technical clothing of MAAP. Durable and breathable fabrics (bluesign approved), encased in the signature Team Fit, with bold engineered sublimation prints.

Gear Patrol puts its signature on the Chapter helmet by Thousand, a Californian brand founded by Gloria Hwang. Inspired by the New York cycling community (commuters, riders and tourists) it comes with a tone-on-tone decal and a custom hand-painted visor. Ideal for your next destination, in style.

10.ASICS X REIGNING C H A M P I N S U L AT E D V E S T

1 1.JAMES BRAND X SEBO WA L K E R D U VA L K N I F E

12.NIKE X OFF-WHITE AIR ZOOM TEMPO NEX T% RUNNING SHOE

A tribute to the famous routes of Vancouver's Sea-to-Sky Corridor, where the landscape inspires not only design but also functionality. This running vest features Polartec Alpha Direct insulation. The exterior is made of wind resistant ripstop and stretch mesh panels for added breathability.

For its latest Artist Series, The James Brand commissioned artist and skateboarder Sebo Walker to create something unique that represented his style. The end result was a triptych of digitized prints transferred to 50 copies of the iconic Duval pocket knife, each different from the other.

The collaborative roster between Virgil Abloh and Nike extends to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. The latest partnership between the streetwear legend and the swoosh is a trio of Zoom Tempo NEXT% in Scream Green, Pink Glow and White/Solar Red. Each in breathable Atmoknit, studded soles and exclusive Air graphics.

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The lighter the soul, the deeper the gaze on the world.

Unearth ANVMA.

RIDERS: Mikey Mulloy / Cody Chouinard PHOTO: Jussi Oksanen

ANVMA WHT VZUM™ POU albaoptics.cc

ECO SEVEN

BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O

TREE-KÅNKEN:INSPIRED BY THE PA S T, P R O J E C T E D I N T O T H E F U T U R E Fjällräven’s Tree-Kånken is a tribute to the very first Kånken model from 1978. A backpack that blends past and future of the Swedish brand and explores interesting alternatives to raw materials of fossil origin. In fact, Tree-Kånken is the result of ongoing research to develop more sustainable ways to produce clothing and equipment. The main structure and the lining are made with the new cellulose-based Pine Weave fabric developed in an exclusive way. Fiber filaments, optimized to be extremely strong and functional.

PATA G O N I A A N D S Y M PAT E X N O M I N AT E D AMONG THE BEST 2021 B CORPS B Lab, an independent network that certifies B Corporations, has given the Best for the World 2021 award to those who have had the greatest positive impacts in various categories (workers, governance, environment, community and customers). Patagonia and Sympatex returned to the top list. The German company in particular has obtained the recognition of "continuous improvement of sustainability" thanks to its involvement in the wear2wear partnership for the first neutral-impact membrane and for its contribution to the UN Fashion Industry Charter.

M A M M U T: C LO S E T H E LO O P P R O J E C T W I N S A N OT H E R AWA R D After the ISPO Award, Close the Loop also wins the German Sustainability Project Award 2021 in the Process-Recycling category. With this circular economy initiative, launched in partnership with Protect Our Winters, Mammut is committed to making significant changes in the way the outdoor industry thinks and acts. The climbing ropes, which have reached the end of their life, are collected, recycled and reintroduced to the market as a t-shirt, becoming a symbol of the many years of commitment and important goals achieved.

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ECO SEVEN

BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O

POL ARTEC ANNOUNCES THE E XCLUSIVE U S E O F P FA S - F R E E D W R T R E AT M E N T S Polartec has announced the elimination of PFAS in the DWR treatments used for its line of performance fabrics.

This process, free of perfluoroalkyl substances, is the latest innovation in EcoEngineering and has no impact on the durability or water repellency of the garments. It will be used for Hardface, Power Shield, Power Shield Pro, NeoShell, Windbloc products and extended to fleece and other insulation technologies to improve moisture management in products such as Thermal Pro and Alpha.

EOG INVITES THE USE O F N E W P O LY E T H Y L E N E B A G S After an extensive research phase, the Single Use Plastic Project of the European Outdoor Group has published the Poly Bag Standards document which aims to reduce the impact of single-use plastics, inviting companies to adopt new standards in product packaging. Partners developed a series of parameters to minimize polluting material. This work also led to the introduction of a bag prototype that uses recycled and recyclable material and incorporates a design that encourages users to reuse it.

S AV E T H E D U C K L A U N C H E S T H E “ W E R E S P E C T B E E S ” C A M PA I G N Save The Duck renews its commitment to the environment by choosing bees as protagonists, guardians of the biological variety of our planet. Thanks to "We Respect Bees", the Italian company intends to rediscover the harmony between men, nature and animals, in oder to condition the business model of fashion companies. For this initiative, Save The Duck has joined forces with 3Bee, an institution committed to developing systems to improve the health of bees and monitor the vital parameters of these formidable living beings.

HYDRO FL ASK REL AUNCHES T H E # R E F I L L F O R G O O D C A M PA I G N Hydro Flask reaffirms its commitment to eliminate consumption and single-use plastic waste globally. The 2021 campaign promotes simple and achievable actions, combining with positive insights shared by Hydro Flask's Refill for Good Advocates community which includes professional athletes, ocean scientists and thought leaders. This year's campaign launches with a limited edition bottle, its proceeds will support the Surfrider Foundation's Plastic Pollution Initiative.

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MAKE TIME WITH THE

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Sometimes we need to disconnect from the daily grind to reconnect with each other and the outdoors. With a ventilated suspension and customized fit, the Katmai and Kalmia match your movement so you can hit the trail in ultimate comfort and go that extra mile.

THE ECO PILL B Y S I LV I A G A L L I A N I

Deuter AC Lite Practical, functional, resistant and beautiful. Deuter has always offered to all mountain enthusiasts a great variety of backpacks, from the largest for multi-day excursions to the smaller ones, up to more lifestyle models for everyday life.

Deuter backpacks are characterized by ergonomics and lightweight thanks to their shape designed to adhere to the body without blocking its natural transpiration. The supports and padding in the points of support make movements comfortable during all types of excursions. Compact but roomy, full of compartments and pockets, Deuter backpacks are also carefully designed from an aesthetic point of view and also feature top quality materials, especially environmentally friendly ones thanks to PFCfree fabrics.

For season 2021 Deuter has further innovated its famous AC Lite backpacks line by presenting two different styles. In fact, we find the classic and spacious top-loading version, or the one with front zip access in the smaller AC models (15 SL, 17, 21 SL, 23 and 25 EL).

This season's AC Lite series is also available in two different fabric options: athletic version and a two-tone lifestyle-inspired one. All AC Lite models, like the entire Deuter collection, are environmentally friendly and feature PFC-free materials.

A full-length front zip opening lets you access your gear quickly, wether it’s buried deep or right at the top,

and offers excellent organization and content oversight. Zipped airy, stretch side pockets are perfect for snacks or your phone. And a helmet holder (sold separately) can be added using dedicated docking loops on the front. The 14 SL, 16, 22 SL, 24, 28 SL, 30 and 32 EL models of the AC Lite line are still accessed from the top for easy loading and unloading.

The look and styling might be new and on-trend for this hiking pack, but the patented back system is a reliable and functional as ever. The AC Lite packs are now even lighter and, thanks to the Aircomfort Flexlite carry system, have highly effective

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ventilation. Airflow from 3 sides reduces perspiration by 25%, which in turns lessens strain on the circulatory system and increases performance.

A lightweight, permanently elastic spring steel frame maintains consistent mesh tension and is flexible for full freedom of movement.

The AC Lite also comes in a range of women-specific SL (Slim Line) models tailored precisely to fit the female shape. The back is shorter, the hip fins are conically formed for an ergonomic fit (AC Lite 21 SL) and the shoulder straps are narrower. For tall people there are the EL (Extra Long) models.

WAVE SKY 5 CORRERE FLUTTUANDO

THE PILL TEST

BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O

Mizuno Wave Sky 5 Reference point in the sector of neutral amortized footwear, Wave Sky 5 marks a new milestone able to offer an even more comfortable running experience and a high energy return.

OVERVIEW Completely redesigned, Wave Sky 5 enters the scene with a clear goal: to offer an even more comfortable, fluid and responsive running experience.

To achieve this, the company's designers focused their efforts on reformulating key sections, such as midsole and upper. The result? A significantly improved fit able to give a feeling of all-round comfort.

UPPER The new upper is made of perforated fabric with differentiated weave and extends horizontally along the foot providing the right balance between flexibility and support. It has been redesigned through the implementation of a new material, Smooth Stretch Woven, soft and elastic, which emphasizes fit and breathability. In the aesthetic section this model features a modern and captivating look that recalls the one of the Wave Shadow 4.

MIDSOLE The most significant update responds to the name of MIZUNO ENERZY CORE. It is a compound that extends from the heel to the toe, capable of offering 193% more cushioning and 56% energy return compared to the U4ic previously used. In combination with the new Wave plate there is a no-

ticeable quantitative and qualitative improvement in cushioning without sacrificing stability. These changes in the midsole emphasize cushioning and energy return at each step.

SOLE The tread continues to feature Mizuno's strongest combination: X10. It is a highly wear-resistant carbon rubber that can withstand greater resistance in high impact areas. The new transversal lines that furrow the forefoot makes the shoe more flexible and able to facilitate a more progressive and dynamic push phase.

OPINION Wave Sky 5 is a top-of-the-range

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cushioned model that reflects Mizuno's constant research for maximum comfort. The implementation of ENERZY CORE technology increases energy return and emphasizes the feeling of comfort and cushioning throughout the entire cycle. Excellent reactivity and elastic response that is perceived both in the heel first impact phase but especially in the forefoot push phase. This combination makes Wave Sky 5 ideal especially in long distance runs at a medium-slow pace, training and recovery. It can be effective for medium/high weight runners, where the ease of heel/toe transition and the rebound effect are increased.

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Saucony Endorphin Trail Designed to elevate the concept of speed, even in the mountains, Endorphin Trail uses Speedroll technology combined with PWRRUN PB cushioning.

To run faster, and with less effort, even on dirt roads.

OVERVIEW The Endorphin family, one of the most popular and sought after of last year, expands into off road running. The revolutionary Speedroll technology and the PWRRUN PB cushioning system give an incredible feeling of continuous propulsion. The secure fit and proven PWRTRAC outsole provide maximum reliability on any terrain and distance.

UPPER Solid mesh upper with sock-like structure and lateral TPU inserts that stabilize the foot, forming a real shell that wraps the foot in a snug and protective way. The streamline shape, slender and enveloping towards the tip, underlines its performing nature.

The padded tongue, integrated into the structure, amplifies the fitting and prevents the entry of debris. The closure system uses flat laces and thin fabric eyelets that increase adaptation in the running phase. The system is effective in providing the right compression without causing any sense of discomfort on the instep.

MIDSOLE The thick layer of PWRRUN PB chosen for cushioning, the most advanced material of Saucony production, offers an incredible level of cushioning. Very generous in size, it has one of the hi-

ghest drop on the market (36,5mm heel/32,5mm forefoot). However, the pronounced height does not upset the stability in torsion. The evident rear drop anticipates the contact with the ground, accompanying the pace in a decisive way. The curvature of the sole of the foot, or the Speedroll technology, present in the whole Endorphin line, offers a great dynamic capacity capable of optimizing energy consumption.

SOLE The PWRTRAC sole, thin but powerful, it is the queen of the traction, the typical Saucony production compound that made Peregrines legendary. It has a multi-purpose and versatile configuration with inverted 5mm lugs to help both uphill and downhill run. The rubber amazes for its excellent performance on wet ground and for its great

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drainage capacity, favored by the considerable spacing of the spaces. Definitely effective even on crumbly terrains.

OPINION Endorphin Trail is a very well cushioned shoe. In contact with the ground it looks a lot like the Xodus: solid, without being soft. The moment of compression is perceived in a pleasant way and raises the pace in an energetic way.

A versatile shoe suitable for any type of trail runner, able to make running not only fast but also fun. A shoe that redefines the parameters of maximum cushioning, stability and protection.

Thanks to the comfort and ease of accompanying the step it is ideal for long distances. As much as it feels detached from the terrain, it manages to maintain full contact with the ground giving a harmonic and carefree run.

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Gregory, great packs should be worn, not carried Gregory’s founder Wayne Gregory was born with the simple passion to design backpacks he could trust on the most ambitious adventures.

In 1977 he founded the pack company that today still bears his name with the aim of creating the most comfortable and most reliable packs in the world. He did this by pioneering new suspension systems with relentless attention to anatomical fit that works with your body instead against it. New construction techniques and utilizing the best materials gave Wayne the confidence to offer his famous lifetime guarantee.

Over the next four decades Wayne‘s obsession with innovation, performance and comfort guided Gregory’s evolution into a world leading bag company trusted for adventure in more than 45 countries. The brand’s simple yet profound design philosophy inspired them to build high performance, high-quality packs, bags and adventure travel gear that are comfortable and reliable thanks to a focus on unique fit geometry and customized chassis technologies, enabling the pack to become an extension of the body. “Great packs should be worn, not carried” has been Gregory’s mission since its foundation.

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Fit and Sizing Fit and sizing for your backpack is in fact important for many reasons.

Next to boots, no item of equipment is more likely to define your outdoor experience than the pack you wear and having a well-fitted pack allows you to stay comfortable and use less energy on the trail. It also allows you to use your pack correctly and to fill it to its maximum capacity for optimal performance.

Measuring your torso length will allow you to find out which size you should buy in whichever Gregory pack you like. All of them are sized the same regardless of gender.

The combination of hipbelt and shoulder harness, also known as suspension system, is another important aspect to keep in mind when

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choosing your backpack. Packs with suspension systems consisting of only a shoulder harness impose a heavy pressure on the spine, shoulders and neck, hastening fatigue. A hipbelt instead removes the pressure and strain and transfers the weight to the simple, strong and well-muscled structure of hips and legs, lowering the centre of gravity. It is the so called load transfer. Since 1977, Gregory has won countless awards around the world for its leadership, focus and understanding of body geometry and load transfer.

Gregory today During these years Gregory’s thinking has furthermore evolved. A high performance, premium quality product alone is not enough anymore, in fact nowadays is important to bu-

ild responsible items with an eye on dynamic comfort and the perfect fit.

This aim requires new ideas, building concept models, testing them, evaluating, then repeating the process until getting an end result to be proud of. It takes time and focus and overall transparency about what you’re realizing and how.

Baltoro & Deva Responding to these needs, Baltoro and Deva can be your trusted companion from start to finish. They’re designed to take you anywhere you want to go in unmatched comfort and style thanks to a torso length that matches your spine length to deliver long lasting trail comfort and performance. They also feature customizable hipbelt and shoulder harness lengths in both men’s and women’s

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specific designs in order to provide better stability. In addition, the removable Lumbar Tune system located behind the ComfortGrip lower back padding allows you to slightly increase or decrease the curvature of the lower backpanel to get the perfect fit for your lower back shape. After a full day on the trail these small adjustments can really make a big difference in comfort.

Katmai & Kalvia Others products that well respond to Gregory’s mission are the Katmai and Kalmia packs that match performance with capability. These backpacks feature a dynamic fit and comfort fused with ventilated, odor reducing technology. The FreeFloat 360 suspension deliver great comfort for your next backpacking adventure.

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A durable, recycled nylon material is combined with easy to navigate pocketing and access to belongings in order to provide a premium backpacking experience. All fabrics on this bag are made from recycled content and PFC-free DWR resulting in a 28% reduction in the carbon footprint when compared to a conventional nylon pack.

Toward a more sustainable future While innovation and steady improvement have always been a hallmark at Gregory, the brand has taking steps toward a more sustainable future by creating a tool that effectively assesses the footprint of its manufacturing process and materials. Gregory’s design team used that data to reduce the carbon footprint for some packs up to 59% by constructing packs entirely from recycled fabrics and other

actions. The same tool empowers consumers to take actionable steps to offset the carbon footprint of their purchase by having full transparency.

In 2018 Gregory overhauled its shipping carton sizes and built new boxes for the Baltoro & Deva packs, which resulted in a shipping efficiency improvement of 21%. This translates into shipping less air and fewer containers and therefore burn less fuel during transport from factories to warehouses.

Designing product built to last a lifetime is an important commitment and can be achieved through special design considerations and build new processes that would permit to design a product that can be easily repaired. This requires intensive testing, both in the lab and in the field and

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years of insights and history, clever design solutions and a sophisticated parts and a repair center back-end that allows the brand to quickly and efficiently extend the life of packs that need a little love and care after being in the field for years.

Designing product built to last a lifetime is an important commitment and can be achieved through special design considerations and build new processes that would permit to design a product that can be easily repaired.

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Oberalp Summit, Engineered in the Dolomites According to your research, many people looked for an experience in the mountains in the year of the pandemic. 71% of people are ready to repeat it also in the coming years. The research also revealed that the mountain is seen by many people as a dangerous, boring and avoidable place.

However, as soon as these people had a personal experience in the mountains, as happened last summer, their attitude changed. This seems to us to mean that there is a lot of potential for alpine destinations and consequently for mountain brands such as Salewa. Probably the most difficult thing is to convince people who have this negative perception of the mountain to take a first step, living in direct contact with alpine nature. An element of self-criticism is that in the past, mountain brands have focused a lot on those people who were already passionate while neglecting the rest of the population. We at Salewa will certainly work on this aspect.

One of the issues most addressed during the Oberalp Summit is making the mountains more inclusive and democratic. In the past, mountaineering has always been an activity considered dangerous, suitable for a few adventurous people. Climbers themselves have always paid close attention to numerical results, degrees of difficulty and times of ascension have often been at the center of the discussion. This did not help attract new people to mountaineering. But at the same time the mountain was gradually approached by new groups of people with a different mindset, such

as trail runners, slack liners, split boarders, etc., who mixed with the most classic climbers and ski mountaineers.

The result is that the cultural codes of mountaineering have begun to change, or rather, to evolve. It is no longer just performance that counts, while experience, and often creativity, take the place of difficulty. The mountain is getting closer to urban culture and a new lifestyle inspired by both worlds is emerging.

Among the innovations presented at the Oberalp Summit, there is the renewal of the Alpine Climbing line. Our new Agner line puts 100% focus on the needs of climbers. It was developed with the motto “as long it is enough”. Sturdy materials, resistant to abrasion and in any case lightweight.

The garments are minimalist and every single zipper or pocket has a specific function. We have included some very practical details but there’s nothing

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that is not functional to the activity. Finally we used bright and fresh colors, visible even in foggy situations. All in all it is a very popular collection among our athletes who have given a lot of input in the development phase.

Among the products that have most impressed us, there is the Wildfire shoes line, how have they improved and how have they evolved? In the second edition of the Wildfire line we have been able to improve everything that experience has taught us since the number one edition. We have replaced the lateral reinforcements of the shoe with internal cables to create a very clean surface free of plastic parts. The 3F heel locking system has been redesigned from scratch to give the foot maximum fit and comfort. Finally, we lowered the midsole a few millimeters to bring the foot closer to the ground, improving the sensitivity for climbing.

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With the Agner Durastretch Anorak you are proposing again the classic anorak design. The anorak is a product with a long history in mountaineering for very obvious reasons. It's a mix between a sweater and a jacket with the benefits of both of them. The zipper only reaches as far as needed, the material is breathable but it resists wind and light rain. There’s no need for a hood because a climber already wears a helmet, but inside there are two large pockets to keep shoes warm when you’re not climbing. I have been using our new anorak for some months not only for climbing, but also for the approach, in the evening at the bivouac at high altitude and even when cycling.

A true multipurpose garment that takes up very little space in the backpack.

Talking about equipment, there has been some great innovation such as the Piuma 3.0 helmet. The name Piuma is linked to the famous

Salewa Piuma helmet developed in the nineties. Our goal was not to realize the lightest helmet on the market, but an extremely safe, versatile and comfortable helmet. In its development we thought about the needs of users such as Mountain Guides, who wear helmets almost every day and for many hours.

For such use, details such as the right ventilation, the type of inner lining, the closure system and the field of vision are important. In the end we invested more than two years in the R&D phase of the helmet and the final result fully meets our expectations with a weight of only 185 grams.

of experimentation with new materials, testing and a design that is oriented by the needs of those who will use the product. Dolomites describes our origin, from which we are inspired and which determines the values of the brand. In the cultural tradition of the Dolomites the main values are courage, trust, simplicity and also the spirituality determined by these impressive and present mountains. Salewa will continue to evolve accompanying the continuous development of mountain sports, but the values and technical approach expressed in the claim will remain fundamental also in the future.

Your claim is “Engineered in the Dolomites”. Can you explain the meaning and how it will affect your brand's future choices? This claim contains the two keywords for Salewa's positioning. Engineered describes the technical approach we follow in the development of each new product: a lot

In the cultural tradition of the Dolomites the main values are courage, trust, simplicity and also the spirituality determined by these impressive and present mountains.

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MICHELIN & Speedland A new generation of trail shoes A new brand, born from the experience of two world-renowned designers. A new shoe, that brings together the best technologies on the market and aims to innovate the world of trail running. Let's find out what's behind Speedland SL:PDX.

A fully customizable running shoe, realized using the best materials and technologies on the market. They call it a true innovation, something that could revolutionize the world of trail running. In short, it is destined to cause discussion. It’s named SL:PDX, launched by Speedland, an American brand founded by Dave Dombrow and Kevin Fallon, creatives and designers with a past of more than twenty years between Nike, Puma and Under Armour.

You suddenly decided it was time to design your own shoe. We have worked together for many years and saw that compromises were being made to hit a certain price. The idea was simple: we wanted to see what we could create by combining the best materials on the market. We were interested in experimenting, structuring the company on a no compromise approach, which could give something to the outdoor world in a meaningful way, designing products taking into account their life cycle.

Why did you decide to focus on the trail running sector? Both of us have

a passion for trail and outdoors in general. Additionally, we saw that much of running R&D from large footwear companies was being put into road running rather than trail. We believe that trail athletes are doing amazing things and deserve the best equipment in the world.

In this adventure, Dave and Kevin have decided to use the best solutions on the market, starting with Boa Technology, with its double Li2 Fit closure system specially designed to guarantee maximum performance in terms of speed, safety and precision, continuing with JVI-solesby-

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MICHELIN, with the design of a revolutionary sole.

The Michelin sole, which for the first time uses cuttable blocks technology, is impressive due to its possibility of customizing lugs, offering the possibility to customize the traction as you wish. How does it work? The cuttable blocks technology comes from mountain bike tires.

With this idea you have two blocks stacked on top of each other. With a small clipping tool or cutting pliers you can trim the top lug, reducing overall height by 3mm. In its most

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basic form, if you live in a super dry climate like Southern California you might trim all the top lugs, while in a more rainy region you might keep all the lugs long. In the arch area you also have the option to trim for drainage if you frequently encounter river crossings. SL:PDX’s sole also stands out for its light weight, thanks to the use of the fiberlite technology in the Michelin outsole.

Not only technologies but also premium materials. A Pebax compound has been chosen for the midsole, an advanced material that guarantees high performance and excellent reactivity. Inside there is a carbon fiber plate that can be removed at any time to ensure different running modes: a performing one or a relaxed one. On the upper there’s a very light Dyneema knit fabric that sets the total weight at just 280 grams.

Quality cannot be borrowed or negotiated. But it can be built. In

short, this is a shoe that refuses to compromise. Yes, a no compromise approach is a founding principle of the company. With an SCF Pebax midsole, Removable Carbitex Plate, Dyneema knit, dual Boa Li2 dials and MICHELIN outsole we don’t see this as just a shoe but rather as Hyper Performance Equipment for trail running.

From the beginning, sustainability has been at the forefront of the SL:PDX design process. Not only for the innovative moccasin-stitch design that drastically reduces the use of adhesives. At the end of its life cycle, SL:PDX can be easily disassembled into its parts in order to be distributed to the respective recycling plants. But there’s more, some parts can be replaced to extend their life.

Collecting, disassembling and disposing of components. How does your Product Recycle Program work? We have designed the SL:PDX with the end of life in mind. With our

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unique moccasin construction and removable midsole/plate, we minimize glue usage which allows us to easily disassemble at end of life and recycle the parts accordingly. Once athletes have deemed that the shoe has come to its end they can contact us and we will email them a return label and recycle the parts accordingly.

We were interested in experimenting, structuring the company on a no compromise approach, which could give something to the outdoor world in a meaningful way, designing products taking into account their life cycle.

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The perfect balance Courmayeur’s Mountain Guides, La Sportiva Aequilibrium Mountain Experience.

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Rudy has icy but unexpectedly sweet eyes.

His smile would like to explode but that would be too difficult. He’s insistently looking at me. He wants to hide something from me but he can't. How many funerals of friends did he attended? “The history of mountaineering has been written above our heads. Here, in the summer of 1961, Walter Bonatti, a shipwrecked man, saw his friends die during the tragedy of the Freney Central Pylon” he says.

smiles Anna Torretta, as we climb the via ferrata that takes us up there. The setting is La Sportiva Aequilibrium Mountain Experience.

“So lightweight, comfortable and versatile, the Aequilibrium boots are recommended both for walking on simple and snow-free routes, and for when you cross glaciers and technical terrains” says Anna. Architect, multiple Italian champion of ice climbing, who knows how many "the mountain is for real men" there have been in her life. Disobedient, she fights for equality.

Rudy Buccella is good at making me feel at home. Kind and courageous, he grew eating bread on Mont Blanc. He became a young Guide, then climbed in Yosemite and in the Himalayas. The weather is sometimes strange. He has already been with the Courmayeur Alpine Guides for 28 years. He takes me to their museum in the center of the town. The Society, the oldest and most prestigious one in Italy, founded in 1850, was destined to become a legend: Émile Rey, Arturo Ottoz, Giuseppe Petigax, the brothers Alessio and Attilio Ollier, Walter Bonatti, Cosimo Zappelli. “In children's drawings, the mountains always have a pointed summit, like these”

Beppe Villa arranges his cap and sits on a rock, as if it were an armchair. It is a bundle of muscles sculpted by the will to live. It looks like a postcard, when there was a postage stamp and memory could not be deceived. "We went to visit them in Ziano di Fiemme and there was immediately a good feeling. People make the difference, and getting to know each other better is essential for creating a lasting relationship. This is why we are happy with the new collaboration with La Sportiva: we are two realities with shared values, such as professionalism and the desire

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by one with his hands. He tells us about when he hasn't showered in days. You can see that he is hungry for new stories to tell. We are in a circle, only the fire is missing. L’Aiguille Noire and Les Dames Anglaises disappear. Time stops. We are left alone, as if we were passing through.

Marco Sappa disguises a bit of melancholy with a smile: there is no man more complete than someone who has traveled, who has changed the form of his thought and his life twenty times.

to transmit the passion for the mountains. We would like to develop various projects together, such as the renovation of some bivouacs” says Alex Campedelli, President of the Courmayeur Alpine Guide Society.

Mauro Opezzo and Arianna Mingolla warmly welcome us at the historic Monzino refuge that rests caressed by Monte Bianco. This was the school for many mountaineers, who spent a week here during their courses. Mauro is the memory of the mountaineers who crossed these mountains, like the time he founded, after many days, the bag of Patrick Berhault inside a crevasse. She has a disruptive, overwhelming personality. One of those you fall in love with immediately. I never gave a damn about the appearance. A body is just like a package. It is like saying that of a bottle of wine you appreciate the taste of glass. Arianna, however, is really beautiful.

I don't believe to those who say that "the mountain is a teacher of life". I think the mountains don't care about us. However, if I have to choose, they seem more pissed off than enchanted. Restless, they would like to scream. Sometimes you should kicked the mountains. They look a little like me. Alone in Italy, so strange, never trivial, the Lagorai and the whole skyline of Peutèrey are held by the same hand.

Mountaineering, sometimes, is something that makes you attentive to others, more empathetic, sensitive. It's not just for the selfish people. I don't care. Because once your eyes have seen, you either ignore it, or try to react.

Sitting around a grole, in the dark, we lost ourselves into a spiral of memories.

Edoardo Saccaro tells of that time, in Patagonia, that he learned to fish because they didn't have enough to eat. One day he made pasta with mussels picked one

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Matilda Söderlund πάντα ῥεῖ (Everything flows) I T W BY M A R TA M A N ZO N I

She has been a multifaceted athlete since she started walking: ballet, football, athletics. She climbed her first pitch at a friend's birthday party in Stockholm, where she lives. Something clicked in her head. She found herself lightly moving on the wall, without thinking. The impact was crazy, the memory of that moment still engraved in her memory.

Before that Matilda Söderlund didn't even know there was something called climbing. The following weekend she was at the crag with her friend.

Three weeks later she took part in her first competition. And her life changed forever. From that moment she took part in all national competitions and then in international youth competitions and finally in the World Cup. Only many years later she approached outdoor climbing, which immediately became her greatest passion and her new goal.

everyday life. I am grateful to have had this opportunity, and to be able to devote so much time to climbing.

Climbing amazing routes in incredible places with my greatest friends is an unbeatable combination.

In addition to being an indoor athlete, you are one of the few climbers in the world who has closed a 8b and climbed a 9a at the crag.

But between trad climbing, a plastic competition, a crag pitch and bouldering, what do you prefer and why? To train for a project I prefer to go to the gym. I really like training and I find it the most effective way to be properly prepared.

Perhaps another reason is that I live in Stockholm, where outdoor climbing doesn't offer many interesting challenges. What I like most, however, is outdoor sport climbing, I feel it close to me and I know I still have room to

Matilda, what does climbing mean to you? Climbing a route without thinking about anything: this is the feeling I love. Climbing offers endless ways to constantly challenge yourself, both physically and mentally, and this has really helped me to grow, as an athlete and as a person, and has given me many lessons applicable to

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"Climbing offers endless ways to constantly challenge yourself, both physically and mentally, and this has really helped me to grow, as an athlete and as a person, and has given me many lessons applicable to everyday life." improve, so for now this is my focus.

I'm also starting to learn more about trad climbing, for future projects and adventures, and the long-term goal is to master climbing in all its forms.

economy will recover but that there will be a lot of turbulence in the future. I think we should ask ourselves if "returning to normal" with so much attention to the (eternal) growth of the markets is really a good thing in a sustainable perspective.

What is the route that should necessarily be in your resume? Certainly some of the classic routes in Yosemitee.

What are your favorite Haglöfs products and why? The L.I.M Mimic Hood jacket, because it keeps me warm and is so lightweight that I can take it anywhere.

Opinions about the recent Tokyo Olympics? I think all the athletes who qualified were incredible, personally I was cheering for Janja Garnbret and Adam Ondra.

Who would Matilda Söderlund be if she wasn't a top climber? I am sure I would have worked in the climbing sector anyway! After graduating from university and doing a couple of internships in the finance industry, I realized that that kind of life was not for me. It is quite surreal and almost a dream to have climbing as a "job" and I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity. If I hadn't climbed full time I think maybe I would have founded my own brand or opened a climbing gym, and who knows, maybe in the future it will happen!

You have a degree in economics, how do you see the European situation after the pandemic? Will we recover from this crisis and how? I studied Business and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, specializing in Marketing.

However, after graduation I took a slightly different career path, so I no longer consider myself an expert in the field of macroeconomics. In my humble opinion, however, I think the

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Manuel Merillas A life among the mountains T E X T DAV I D E F I O R AS O PHOTOS GIACOMO MENEGHELLO

With its 1450 meters, La Cueta is the highest village in the province of Leòn, Spain.

Just seven people live there, perched in a handful of houses in the Babia y Luna natural park. This is where Manuel Merillas, who was born in 1991, lives, he’s one of the most recent signings of the SCARPA trail running team.

2015 has been his golden year, with a second place at the World Championships in Annecy and a bronze medal at the European Ski Mountaineering Championships.

Then, in 2016, an Achilles tendon injury keep him out of the game for three years. His slowly returns to competition with a series of ascent and descent records on iconic Spanish peaks, until August 2021, where, within a week, he rewrites history first on Mont Blanc, then on Monte Rosa.

When did your relationship with the mountains begin? I was born and raised in the village of Valseco, I used to help my family with the cattle, so I was always in the mountains. At 17, I was getting faster and faster moving from place to place.

I've always loved being in contact with the wildest nature so the mountain has always been the place where I felt happiest and where I experienced the greatest sense of freedom.

You had a bad injury during your best years. At the beginning it was very hard because I felt a lot of pain and no doctor could tell me what I had, then they found out what the problem was and told me I would not be able to run anymore, but I did not want to give up. I contacted another doctor who gave me hope: there was the possibility that, with an operation, I would have been able to recover and so it was. For three

years I couldn't compete, but in the end I managed to recover and start running in the mountains again.

In the second part of 2020 you achieved some FKTs on the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains: Pedraforca, Posets, Peña Santa, but also the legendary volcano Teide in Tenerife. And now on Mont Blanc you set a new record of 6h35’32" on the round trip from Courmayeur. Mont Blanc was my second choice after Matterhorn.

But once in Valtournenche I saw that the conditions to try to reach Matterhorn were not adequate, so Marco De Gasperi encouraged me to climb Mont Blanc. It was one of the alpine mountains I dreamed of reaching, so I didn't think about it twice.

Can you tell us something about it? The first few days were not very good due to the winter conditions

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but then we had a window of good weather so we started packing. The conditions were very good, the glacier was perfect, at 4300m the cold was bearable and the wind was not so strong. Many people already climbed it, so there was a good track to follow: a total of 51km and 3,800+, of which 24km was on a paved road.

Dennis Trento tackled the most difficult part, he was in a roped team with me in the most dangerous stretch on the crevasses of the Miage Glacier up to Col des Aiguilles Grises, during the ascent and descent he had to keep up with my pace in areas where the probability of falling in the crevasses or slipping from exposed stairs is very high. My friend Omar was waiting for me at the Vallot refuge at 4400m with warmer clothes.

Finally my other friend Arturo was at the top with the ice ax that I would have used for the descent.

Another great challenge a week later. You managed to lower Franco Collè's record on the ascent and descent of Monte Rosa from Gressoney La Trinité by 30 minutes.My options were Matterhorn, Mont Blanc or Monte Rosa, and I wanted to climb at least two peaks. Since the conditions of the Matterhorn were still unfavorable, I decided to climb Monte Rosa,I was a little more acclimatized and it seemed like a good opportunity to attempt a second record. Also, Franco Collé is one of my favorite athletes and it was an honor to climb something already done by him.

You joined SCARPA team with great ambitions. And recent successes have proved you right.

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on Mont Blanc? Marco De Gasperi is a point of reference in trail running, not only he’s an excellent athlete, but also a wonderful person, I consider him a friend. He encouraged and helped me in every way to break his record, and that says a lot about him. He could not be present on Mont Blanc, but he was with me on Monte Rosa, he did not hesitate to drive his car as soon as he finished working for a 5 hour trip, arriving at sunset in order to be present and help me with everything.

At your feet, in this double challenge, a prototype of trail a running shoe, signed by SCARPA, which will be launched during the SS22 season. Can you tell us something? All I can say is that it is a very comfortable, light shoe with a grip that gives you a lot of safety.

With these shoes I set the records of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa, they almost run by themselves!

In 2020 there were multiple record attempts. This year, going back to racing has reversed the trend a bit. But there is a challenge that has been awaiting a new contender for years, the Matterhorn, from that sensational 2h52’ scored by Kilian Jornet in 2013. Any other future projects? Unfortunately I had to give up on the Matterhorn this time, but I’ve not given up forever. I couldn't wait any more days for the conditions at the top to improve, so I still have a challenge pending, I hope for next year already.

Kilian Jornet has achieved a challenge that is as perfect as it is difficult, but not impossible. In the rest of the year I would like to participate in a few races, although I have not yet decided exactly which ones, but most of them will be national competitions.

No place too far, Nimsdai in Cortina ITW & PHOTOS DENIS PICCOLO

It is 4:57 pm in Pakistan on January 16th, 2021 when 10 Nepalese mountaineers hug each others at the top of K2, writing the last chapter of a forty-one year long story, the one of winter Himalayas.

None of them reached the summit alone, but they waited for each other a few meters below the summit in order to continue all together towards the highest point. They took the last steps while singing the Nepalese national anthem.

Leading the expedition that will remain written history was Nirmal Purja, known as Nimsdai. And we do know him very well, he even ended up on one of our cover a few months ago.

Nimsdai was born in the Myagdi region of Nepal and he then joined the Gurkha Brigade, an elite unit of the British Army. He was 30 years old when he began to approach the world of the mountains when, during a license, he ventured into a trek to the Everest base camp and from that moment on he decided to concentrate full time on high altitude mountaineering. In 2018 he devoted himself to a project called "Project Possible 14/7” that would led him to climb all 14 Eight-thousanders peaks in the world in 6 months and 6 days.

With him on K2 there was SCARPA who accompanied him on one of the

highest summit the world with the Phantom 8000 HD boot. This high-performance, light and comfortable model was in fact designed specifically for high altitudes.

SCARPA's claim "No place too far" perfectly expresses the spirit of the brand which also coincides with Nirmal’s and its desire to accomplish an adventure never achieved before. Precisely to celebrate this great success, SCARPA organized a two-day event in Cortina. Between a trip to Lagazuoi and some typical knödels, we had the opportunity to ask Nims a few questions. And, as expected, his answers were not at all obvious.

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positive mental attitude and this changed my life and allowed me to join the special forces, and now here I am.

This is your first time in Cortina.

Do you like? I love Cortina, if anyone would like to offer me a job here I am available!

Let's start with your last great adventure, the winter ascent of K2.

What is the difference between climbing it in winter instead of summer? It is just a completely different challenge. Temperatures are much lower, down to -65° C, which makes climbing on ice much more difficult because it make you burn a lot more energy. There is also less light. All these factors put together make it much more complicated.

What is the deep motivation that pushed you to pursue such challenges? I strongly believe that having such a big dream is already a huge motivation. I had two reasons for climbing K2 in winter. The first was wanting to show the world what a team can achieve when they have a shared goal. The second was to make Nepal a protagonist of the history of the mountains. In fact, in Nepal we have various mountains more than 8000 meters high but no ascent had ever been made by Nepalese climbers. We wanted to show that it was possible.

Let's retrace your history. You were born in Nepal, but when did you first approach mountainee-

ring? I started practicing mountaineering when I was about 30, which shows how age shouldn't be used as an excuse for not doing something.

I had never been on a mountain before, I had never even climbed in a climbing gym. In 2017 I was serving in the Ghurkha Brigade, a unit of the British Army. Many said that Ghurkhas were unable to climb a mountain in their own territory and this challenge motivated me to become the leader of a team made up of Ghurkhas and Sherpas with the aim of climbing Everest. Although the conditions weren't optimal, we made it and then we celebrated for six days! Later, we reached Lhotse and Makalu. After Makalu I was supposed to go back to work but the helicopter that was supposed to pick me up never arrived and so I decided to run down the mountain, once I arrived I was still feeling good. In that moment I realized that I could have done something even greater.

How do you keep a group unite and with the spirits up? It's very simple, you always have to put your team first, even before yourself. I also think it is essential to have a positive mental attitude. In all the most difficult projects, the mind matters much more than the body. To make an example, as a child I suffered from asthma but I always maintained a

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How do you turn negative thoughts into positive ones? How do you find this inner strength? In life there are always two possible paths to take, the positive one and the negative one. When I was attempting the hour record on Everest, Lhotse and Makalu, at Camp 4 my oxygen got stolen. I could have been angry because of this or thought that my oxygen would have saved someone's else life. As soon as I thought about that, everything changed and my newfound mental attitude gave me even more energy.

Have you ever felt afraid in the mountains? In Nepal there is a very popular saying: if you are not afraid of dying either you are a Ghurkha or you are a liar. We are all human beings and it is normal to be scared sometimes but, as far as I'm concerned, I don't want fears to control me, I have to control them. Once you are able to do this you will also be able to accomplish your goals.

Before leaving the stage, Nimsdai gave us a very special news, although we cannot anticipate much. But get ready for this November.

The motivation was to make Nepal a protagonist of the history of the mountains. In fact, in Nepal we have various mountains more than 8000 meters high but no ascent had e ver been made by Nepalese climbers.

We wanted to show that it was possible.

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From water to sky

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PHOTOS ELISA BESSEGA

Its defect is to be located four hours from home: between Trento and Lecco there are two highways, several ring roads, state and provincial roads, secondary roads, and numerous coffee creams in an off-brand Autogrill at the x kilometer of the xx highway in the xxx province. It's the mood of Friday night on the A4: imagining to be in California with Allah-Las singing on the radio and the Great Escape from Milan in the opposite lane. And again orange colored fields, hangars, trucks. Then the hangars thin out and the sun begins to dye the water. Shortly before Lecco, I turn right and gain altitude. A hairpin bend, an Art Nouveau villa, a beaten railing covered with ivy. Beyond the windshield, Grignetta, gray from the distance, throws itself into the lake.

The parking lot of the Piani d'Erna cable car is semi-deserted. On the opposite side there is a burgundy structure, half boldly geometrical (but not enough), with a sloping roof down to the ground and a row of typically Alpine portholes, while the other half side looks like it’s coming from the Eighties. From there, next to a decadent and holiday cafe, departs a cable car but it is not clear where it leads. At the cafe you can choose between a bottled craft beer and a more prosaic Forst, perhaps exotic here, served in a double plastic cup dripping with condensation. To the right of the bar there’s a deserted drive in. And in front of us again an infinite and dragged sunset that we bring with us from Brescia.

At dusk, the parking lot becomes a square and begins to fill up with high school kids on vacation. I’m not on vacation, but I feel like it.

The warm night, the open door of the van and the wind, and on the other side of the parking lot chatter and sangria.

Grigna is one of those places that you almost never see if you live in Trento. All the good reasons to go there (lake, cliffs, long routes, limestone and trails) are easily found even a few kilometers from Piazza Fiera. There are more or less the same five or six elements (even the weather is similar), but they are arranged differently and end up looking completely different.

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close to your home, you end up not moving anymore, and not seeing anything new. Then something always happens that makes you go back often to a place that you didn't know at all until a month before.

With Lecco it went more or less like this.

It is difficult to say whether it is a mountain town. It is also difficult to say whether it is a lakeside town.

Crushed by the plain to the south, by the water to the west, and by the mountains on all sides. After all, the lake is small, or at least not as big as it looks on a map. In reality, from here everything seems quite small: Milan seems small, with skyscrapers piercing the mist from a distance, and the Apennines at the bottom, which the perspective transforms into Monte Rosa, huge and frighteningly close, and next to it, almost barely from the other part of the lake, Switzerland. These perspectives make us understand how small this peninsula is, and what it brings with it. Just going up for a kilometer you will see the world, from Cuneo to Venice.

The first pick up number after a year and a half seems quite natural: we are in the courtyard of a school or in a similar place. The

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atmosphere is calm and the faces of the volunteers are animated by the fever of the first edition. Under the inflatable intersection I see Rino, a strong athlete from Varese, we exchange a few words and then I go to warm up. I look around trying to understand between the shaved legs and the bright colors how many really have crampons with them, added only a few days before to the compulsory equipment. The nice thing about competitions that don't have compulsory equipment is that they don't have compulsory equipment, it seems linear to me. So you can potentially run like when you train, with the water bottle in your hand and without too many frills. But for some people crampons do not seem like a problem, but just one of the many things needed in a long day in the mountains. I do not give up and I try at all costs to save a freedom that I do not want to give up: if you practice ultrarunning in Italy, you rarely run without ballast and similar ugly things. Then there are those who seem to look for ugliness on purpose, with hallucinating jerseys and unlikely shoes: but ultrarunning is not a sport of appearance, it is a sport of substance, and if you have to look for aesthetics you might as well look for it in the gesture of running. So I put the crampons in the elastic pouch and start hopping around the yard to see if they bounce. They bounce. But it's too early to complain about it.

The trail along the lakefront passes under the upside-down y-shaped poles that support an anti-landslide net: the passage of the group is accompanied by the tinkling of the skulls that hit us, the first of a long

series of victims. The first refreshment is a table with a row of bottles of water above it, on the other side of the street there’s a fountain. It is these kinds of choices that will make you go to hell or to heaven.

The fountains give a joy that a bottle of water hardly can replicate.

Albertino stands about ten meters ahead of me and tries to make me lose meters: every time he turns around, I smile at him with my mouth closed and say a few sentences quietly. He runs the whole race on his chest and yet he never slows down. Here the people are really excited: at the refreshment points there is a frenzy, everyone around has a smile, and the long descents, and the slope of Grignone, are dotted with orange dots of the volunteers' shirts. There’s one at every crossroads, and sometimes even where there is no crossroads.

Coming down from Grignetta you can see the Val Sassina, whose end you can only sense, just beyond the slopes of Grignone: in reality the valley still continues, closes, turns.

Higher up, on the bottom, beyond the mountains, is Premana. A pretty nerdy mid-mountain city, posted in a narrow valley. In order not to think about my stomach pain, I start counting the reasons why I know Premana. I find four: Camp (the climbing equipment company) was born there, many knives and

forks for the European market are produced there, there is a historic mountain running competition called Giir di Mont, and there is Tìir, a popular song in which the whole town participates and which lasts for hours, from the afternoon to the next morning. These thoughts keep me busy for three minutes, then I go back thinking about the race. I slip the water bottle into the elastic of my shorts and start climbing towards Brioschi with no longer stomach pain.

There is nothing at the finish line: there are no cafes, no showers or gyms to escape to, and everyone is forced to stay there waiting for the others to arrive. It almost never happens in Italy, but it's a good thing. The awards are set up in a corner, but nobody seems to care: people are taken by unlikely arrivals, by polenta, by yoghurts, by those who arrive with the same disbelief that one has after having run for 100 kilometers. It's a 35-kilometer race, but for some reason it doesn't seem like it. There is a nice atmosphere. We are there barefoot and sitting on a bench watching the arrivals and drinking a few beers: meanwhile the stopwatch goes on and people keep coming. And meanwhile another sunset begins, and another lake, and again the Allah-Las on the radio, and the orange wheat, and the hangars.

The awards are set up in a corner, but nobody seems to care: people are taken by unlikely arrivals, by polenta, by yoghurts, by those who arrive with the same disbelief that one has after having run for 100 kilometers. It's a 35-kilometer race, but for some reason it doesn't seem like it. There is a nice atmosphere.

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Discovering a middle-earth T E X T VA L E R I A M A R G H E R I TA M O S CA PHOTOS ISACCO EMILIANI

A very strong wind was blowing the first time I was close to Mincio and the blue sky reflected the shape of the clouds on the cold water as in a living and moving mirror. A kind of hypnotic beauty hallucination.

Then suddenly, when the wind ceased, a dense fog, called "fumana" by the locals, fell onto the water, lit only by the sun of the young and fast autumn sunset. Like a blanket that only allowed a glimpse of the territory behind it, for me still little unexplored and difficult to imagine. A vision that catapulted me into a state of excitement and impatience and that accompanied me until the dark of the evening.

I spent a night thinking and feeling that strange sensation that only rivers can transmit to me. Intuiting the flow of water that leaves the identity of a place of passage on the shores, motionless while everything flows, made me sink into a kind of curious melancholy, like an adventure that is at times worrying. Today, after several visits and in-depth explorations, if I had to define this river with a single term, I would say "sinuous". Its waters flow quietly for 73 kilometers of meanders rich in loops that evolve, due to the erosion of the current, becoming increasingly wider, burying themselves and generating a dead arm of the river that gives life to the marshes, environments that characterize the territory of Mincio. A transitory space between two very different realities, from a culturally, biologically and geographically point of view: Lake Garda and its morainic hills, of which the river is an emissary, and the river Po, where its run ends.

A sort of middle-earth called “Terre del Mincio” a term that brings back the echo of mythological references that are perfect when combined with

the sense of mystery that the river generates in the most sensitive souls. Walking along its banks, following the numerous routes, and observing its slow waters means crossing different territories, enriched by significant historical and naturalistic testimonies, and getting lost in an intricate aquatic labyrinth, enchanted by the magic of naturalistic discoveries. In fact, the Park is home to more than three hundred resident, nesting, migratory species, as well as fascinating aquatic vegetation divided between different habitats such as swamps, wetlands, plains and hygrophilous forests that consequently generate a very rich biodiversity.

One of the routes that I would recommend to approach the territory in its entirety, before embarking on more detailed explorations, is certainly the bicycle lane that starts in Peschiera and ends in Mantua and which is part of the itinerary number 7 of the Eurovelo bike routes. The one that from the North Cape, after more than 7000km, arrives on the island of Malta, connecting the extreme north of Europe to the southernmost edge of our continent. The starting point is marked in the town of Porto Vecchio and the route, fascinating, flat and surrounded by greenery, leads to the discovery of glimpses of unknown nature, passing through the medieval village of Borghetto with its castle, alleys, mills and the Visconti bridge.

Almost a must, if you are nearby at lunchtime, is taking a short break to savor the local specialty in one of the famous gastronomic places: tortellini di Valeggio with melted butter and sage. Walking (or cycling) you will notice that the current aspect of Mincio is strongly influenced by the anthropic works that have followed one another over the centuries to dominate the course of the waters.

In some places, however, it still retains important elements of naturalness and its typical and fascinating meandering pattern.

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Going on, you will be more and more enraptured by the fascinating atmosphere of these places and you will notice that, in the stretches that go further towards the shores and swampy habitats, it will not be difficult to spot beautiful water birds such as coots, mallards and moorhens. Even the vegetation, so dense and so varied, will kidnap you in an instant. If I had to choose a single wild ingredient among those present in this type of habitat, I would have no doubts. I would focus on an allochthonous and highly invasive aquatic plant so as to cooperate with the environment through its collection and fight, at least in part, the change generated by the blind human action that over the centuries has intervened in these waters in an even more invasive way compared to many other alien plants.

In the Mincio area one of the most present is lotus, whose scientific name is Nelumba Nucifera, a plant belonging to the Nelumbonaceae family.

Originally from India, China, Southeast Asia and Japan, it lives along rivers, estuaries and swamps and in those countries it is considered a sacred plant by Buddhists and Hindus, revered for thousands of years and used in traditional medicine and as a food source. It was introduced in Italy for ornamental purposes, widely used for its amazing beauty. Its root system, consisting of rhizomes, allows it to spread very quickly and expand on the bottom of the basins at an impressive speed, making it easy to cultivate. For this reason, a little less than a hundred years ago, some missionaries returning from China proposed starting a lotus cultivation right on the lakes of Mantua, aware of the success of the plant on the agricultural market. A proposal that was made concrete in the 1920s under the supervision of a young naturalist, Maria Pellegrini, who however, after the intervention to introduce the species, moved away. The experiment was therefore forgotten, leaving the development of the lotus to itself and to its speed of propagation, without the plant ever being used or considered in a sensible way.

Nowadays lotus present in the area is considered a harmful species that forms monospecific populations that take away space from the native vegetation. These effects not only affect other plants,

but also the fauna: it has been shown that where lotus flower proliferates decrease the number of species of macroinvertabrates, as well as different species of insects that are part of the life cycle of these aquatic environments. For this reason, lotus is included in the "black list of non-native plant species subject to monitoring, containment or eradication”.

It is important to fight the growth and development of this kind of plants in the area, where they are invasive and harmful, by intervening in advance to prevent them from being planted. Where they are already present, it is necessary to eradicate them and, if edible, consume them as food.

This scheme of action is the basis of conservative foraging, which focuses mainly on the collection of invasive and harmful plants for the environment, establishing a truly cooperative and protective relationship with it. Let’s go back to lotus, after harvesting, we can consider almost all parts of the plant as edible: flowers, seeds, rhizomes and young leaves can be used and consumed. Lotus is very good and nutritious. The root in particular contains minerals, including above all copper, iron, zinc, magnesium and manganese, and vitamins, especially vitamin C and group B vitamins. It can be boiled, sautéed and is excellent cut into thin slices and deep fried. The petals can be eaten raw or cooked while seeds, roasted, can be used as a substitute for coffee or subsistence flour.

I believe that conservative foraging, which forces us to know ecosystems and ecology and to enter into synergy with them, is a good vehicle to approach ecosystems with a different consciousness, making us become part of them and making us see the need we have to live these places and how much these places need us.

I believe that conservative foraging, which forces us to know ecosystems and ecology and to enter into synergy with them, is a good vehicle to approach ecosystems with a different consciousness, making us become part of them and making us see the need we have to live these places and how much these places need us.

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Wild E-Side An adventure on Alta Via del Sale with Bosch FOTO CAMILLA PIZZINI TESTO GIULIO NESPOLO

E-bike means inclusion. The electric pedal assisted bicycle, an authentic phenomenon of the world of cycling, which in recent years has climbed to heights of consensus, attracting a large and multicolored audience, has its sparkling “frontier” in e-mountain bikes equipped with an electric motor and battery.

A world in constant evolution with many advantages.

The first? Limiting the distances between friends, those differences in physical and technical preparation within a group (how many times would we have wanted to reach a high altitude summit with an adventure companion too trained for our slow pace?) Often, in past, those were real obstacles. Not today, because electric bicycles have the unique advantage of assisting pedaling and, at the same time, of stimulating desires, making it possible to transform a dream into reality.

We had a tangible demonstration during the Wild E-Side event supported

by Bosch eBike Systems, a format organized by Koba, on one of the best known, famous and appreciated cycling routes in Italy. Which? The Alta Via del Sale, formerly a mule track that in the Middle Ages represented the "highway" of trade between the Piedmont mountains and the Ligurian Sea, then transformed

into a military route in the 1920s. A work of the genius and effort of men who dug a wide carriage road in the karst rock of the Ligurian Alps, today usable by trekking and cycling enthusiasts, but also by motorized vehicles suitable for off roads, by reservation, on some days of the week.

The ingredients for living an electrifying experience were all there. Nature, with a capital letter, thanks to an evocative route that connects Limone Piemonte, in the Cuneo area, to the La Terza Refuge, in the Ligurian Monesi di Triora area, entirely between 1800 and 2200 meters high for a total length of up to 90 kilometers in 2 days and up to 3600m of difference in height. And then a group of cycling enthusiasts on bi-cushioned assisted mountain bikes equipped with the latest electric kits that feature 250 watt motors, generous torque capable of multiplying up to four times the energy released by

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the muscles of bikers, and batteries capable of ensuring many kilometers of autonomy and consequently the certainty of reaching the end of the journey in a single day. Without neglecting the desire to share a first-person experience full of discoveries and surprises, feelings that are never lacking when a group of bikers meets to escape from daily routine, choosing to immerse themselves into nature.

A palette of colors that Wild E-Side has been able to mix at best. And the concept of inclusion played a key role. Starting from the (wise) choice of setting the same starting point, Limone, where ski lift allows you to transport e-bikes to the 1972 meters of Le Marmotte, and of course the same arrival, the La Terza Refuge, which stands out majestic at 2060 meters: from here the view sweeps over the entire mountain arc of lower Piedmont, on one side, and the Ligu-

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The route that follows the white road of the Alta Via del Sale, which can be appreciated over the course of a day, included some breaks in the most evocative places, such as Colle della Perla, which intersects in the first part of the tour, when pedaling zigzagging between Italy and France.

rian Sea, on the other, which can be clearly seen sipping a cup of coffee from the ridge overlooking the refuge. In the middle, however, two options to indulge two groups of bikers: the Alta Via del Sale, which can be enjoyed at a tourist pace and is never too complicated or dangerous, and the "high" variant, which combines departure and I arrival passing through tough trails and single tracks, between crests and steep slopes, where enduro e-mtb are an essential element. The latter is the trail that during Wild E-Side was led by a "certain" Marco Aurelio Fontana, a former professional biker who gave Italy an extraordinary Olympic bronze medal in cross country in London 2012, today a convinced supporter of the potential made possible by electric bicycles always with an eye to the so-called "fun".WW The red thread of the event? Smiles, a true constant when bikers have passed the Colle della Boaria, a "postcard" of the Alta Via del Sale, a hairpin bend carved into the karst rock where everyone has dismounted to shoot evocative videos ready to be shared on social networks, and when the two groups met at the Don Barbera refuge, a mid-day meeting, to enjoy a snack based on sausage and polenta cooked “close” to the sky. Accompanied by local cycling tour guides, all e-bike sportsmen

then put their clawed wheels on the suggestive trails of the Bosco delle Navette (an Italian "Canada" so the green of the plants is the dominant element) up to the Redentore statue that dominates the Mount Saccarello which is so close to the goal.

mounted on all participating e-bikes and the assistance service guaranteed for any flying recharges, technical interventions or simple support needs. In a word: tranquility, which is the secret to enjoy a day of sporting adventure in the best possible way.

The route that follows the white road of the Alta Via del Sale, which can be appreciated over the course of a day, included some breaks in the most evocative places, such as Colle della Perla, which intersects in the first part of the tour, when pedaling zigzagging between Italy and France. For those who are well trained, it is sufficient to set the minimum level of assistance to work hard, and a lot, in some steep uphill stretches to find the right balance between sport and tourism. Those who want to reduce the effort can take full advantage of the generous torque of the latest e-mtb (which reaches 85 Nm). In any case, the compact terrain, free from excessive natural obstacles, such as rocks and roots, allow you to have fun without ever getting off the saddle.

Upon arrival, the synthesis of the two days, with La Terza that comes to life with the shouting of the first bikers who arrived at destination: e-bikes parked for recharging, a quick pit stop in the tents made available by the organization, a toast in waiting for even the last member to cross the ideal finish line. So, off to the party. Cheers and the sound of glasses crossing as the decibels rise thanks to a rockabilly and southern rock concert staged at sunset. The day gives way to the night, the adrenaline of a day on the saddle is dissolved in the joy of sharing impressions, moments lived, and some lucky ones took their place for the night in the special tents set up on the roof of the brand new Land Rover Defender, which has always been synonymous with travels and adventures on the road, co-protagonists of a “wild” event that has left its mark.

Return? The next day, on the same route as the day before, ending with a pleasant detour to Colle di Tenda, where the military fortifications are a legacy of a distant past.

For all those present at the event, including Jaguar Land Rover, Triumph Motorcycles, Beta Professional Hand Tools, had the peace of mind of reaching their destination. The reasons? The important autonomy now reached by the Bosch batteries

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La vida es movimiento

BY LUCA ALBRISI

This story begins a long time ago, some years for sure.

It apparently seems to have little to do with my recent adventure but sometimes we need to have the awareness and the confidence to be able to read the story in its entirety only after some time from its beginning.

We look at the calm water around us, no surfable waves coming. Silence.

Suddenly the guy, remaining on his knees on the board, stretches his back, dropping a long braid of gray hair over his shoulders and scans the horizon. He turns back to us, smiles and he says with conviction: “la vida es movimiento” and without waiting for an answer he starts paddling out to sea.

My friend and I look at each other a little confused not fully understanding what he meant, we were about to commenting what happened but we remain speechless realizing that, in the meantime, the guy was paddling to catch the most beautiful wave ever seen since we entered the water. And he did with a great style. From that day on, "the Guru", as I renamed him, has remained in my mind as an image of wisdom, style and attitude to which I humbly aspire.

And not just concerning the surfing field.

Years ago I was on vacation in Fuerteventura and I was in the water with a friend of mine waiting for some nice waves at sunset. I love “sunset sessions” because they infuse me with tranquility and deep intimacy with that precise moment.

Although I’m not a great surfer, in those moments I can feel in the right place and I have the feeling of surfing the light (quote) as when I am in more usual places.

In short, we were there quietly waiting for some waves, sitting in a not too elegant way on our boards.

“La vida es movimiento”. I don't know why but I've been repeating this sentence in my mind like a chant for a few hours now. In fact, when I think about it, I know why.

Suddenly we see a surfer appearing next us, a no longer young man, paddling on a longboard. The guy stops next to us, kneels on the board, turns around and greets us with a big smile: “hola”. "Hola" we reply a bit stunned since, despite being the only two in the water, we didn't even notice his arrival.

Because after months of static, we were able to leave again, to travel, to change views. To rediscover ourselves. And now I find myself a bit surprisingly here, on this trail that crosses the entire Elba, realizing how much I have missed this "movement" and how a

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part of myself had been uprooted, falling into a toxic routine we've all found ourselves in. But now, finally, I rediscover myself in these footsteps.

My feet move incessantly on a trail that in turn changes shape and color, passing from the green of the uncultivated grass, to the yellow of the sand, up to the glitter of granite crystals. It widens and narrows alternating forest roads with apparently never traveled roads, infinite steps and riverbeds dug into soft ground by a violent rain dating back to who knows how long ago. The animals that populate these lands move and I hear their crawling, grunting, bleating. Without ever really seeing them.

Small trails of constantly moving ants plow the path of a man who has just realized how much of this world, in reality, has never stopped.

We should all have walked this trail together, Ale, Kaya, Maka and I, as we do almost every summer, setting out to discover trails that engage us for several days, possibly in remote or little-traveled areas. Unfortunately, however, when we landed on the island, the rapid rise in temperatures made us give up the idea for fear that our dogs would suffer too much from the heat during the long days of walking.

And so here is my plan B: try to walk the trail alone and in one take, despite the fact that I suffer from the heat even more than my dogs.

I move, I turn, I go up and down. Continuously. Constantly. I feel accompanied by all this movement which I realize I am slowly acquiring the rhythm. I was convinced I would feel alone during this trip, yet in all these hours that have taken me from the east coast to the west, I have not felt alone even for a moment. The dimension of my thoughts has become more and more tangible, while my physicality seems to fade like an image beyond a glass misted by too much humidity. And it is precisely in this dimension of alternative lucidity that I repeat once again “la vida es movimiento”.

Beyond the kilometers and the difference in altitude, this is my true dimension of discovery, a dimension made of temperatures to which I am not in the least accustomed, of the sun that beats almost constantly in my head, of fogging from heat, of sweat that drips me in the eyes mocking my eyebrows. And it is precisely in this dimension that I keep repeating to myself that “la vida es movimiento”.

I think of the waves of that day and I see the sea almost constantly around me even though I know with certainty that I will never get close to it, until the end of this journey. I see the sun moving from one side of the trail to the other with sadistic slowness, making me hope for some remote shadowy corner.

Sea and land sometimes mix, creating stories of movement, giving meaning to what we have been carrying with us for years without fully understanding why, or the meaning of which we are not yet ready to accept.

Life is made of movement as we are made to be nomads in a physical world as well as in the world made of thoughts.

The landscape moves, made of dense vegetation at the start (when unfortunately it is still too early to enjoy its shadow) which gives me very frequent cobwebs in my face, made of very long ridges whose exposure to the sun is made bearable only by the beauty of the line that it runs through them, and then through sparse scrub, bushes, earth, an unexpected humid and floral forest and, finally, sharp rock illuminated by the sunset.

“La vida es movimiento” I repeat to myself.

And I, as far as possible, intend to never stop again.

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Michael Piccolruaz I T W BY M A R TA M A N ZO N I PHOTOS THOMAS MONSORNO

He has just got back from Tokyo where, for the first time in history, climbing made its debut as an Olympic discipline.

Michael Piccolruaz was born in Bolzano in 1995 and grew up in Val Gardena. At the age of three he took his first steps on the wall with his father, a Mountain Guide, and at the age of seven he began climbing with a small group of young climbers. After middle school he moved to Merano where there is the largest climbing gym in South Tyrol. He attended high school and in the meantime took part in regional competitions, then at the age of thirteen he joined the Youth National Team, and since he was seventeen he has competed in the World Cup circuit. In 2015 he moved to Innsbruck, where he lives nowadays: here he chose to study geology, because, as he says, he likes to know what type of rock he will move onto and to know the environment in which he will be immersed.

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My whole life revolves around climbing which continues every day to give me very strong emotions, truly unique sensations, and allows me to constantly test my limits.

Michael, for many people climbing becomes an addiction, what do you think about it? For me, climbing is a lifestyle: I love climbing in all its forms and its beauty, in my opinion, is that you can also practice this activity as a hobby.

My whole life revolves around climbing which continues every day to give me very strong emotions, truly unique sensations, and allows me to constantly test my limits. Surely it's a bit of an addiction, but I think it's a good thing, it has never hurt me! Indeed it allowed me to travel the world practicing my passion. Of course I have to be honest: I can't stay without climbing for several days in a row.

Revolving your life around climbing doesn’t involve giving up many other good things in life? Until now I never thought I was missing out on anything. I am very happy with my life.

I certainly believe that if the time came when I felt that I am giving up something I would change my life in some way, but for now that’s not the case. I am sure that I will never regret the time spent climbing, rather it may happen that I would have liked to have even more time to climb.

What will happen when you’ll get old and will not be able to complete a route that you now easily climb? I have often asked myself this question. The time will surely come when I will realize that I no longer have the level I used to have. I hope this will happen slowly, not overnight: in this way it would certainly be easier to accept the fact that I can no longer push my limits. I think I will still find my motivation to continue climbing and, also in that case, the beauty of climbing is that there is not only sport climbing but there are many other forms, such as trad climbing on long routes in the mountains, for

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example, where degrees are less important and what matters is the adventure you live.

What did it mean for you to take part in the climbing debut at the Olympics? What are your impressions? Participating in the Olympics was a dream come true. I have worked on it for five years and have worked very hard. Last year was not easy due to the various restrictions and the last few months I was looking forward to leaving. From the moment I got on the plane in Rome together with many athletes from other Olympic disciplines I was super excited, getting in touch with so many different sports was fantastic. One of the best moments was when we entered the Olympic village for the first time, there was a very special atmosphere, with athletes from hundreds of different countries. Before leaving, I happened to feel a little special as an Olympic athlete, but there I realized that there were really a lot of them. It was nice to see athletes who were very different from each other in terms of fitness and body structure. There are stereotypes that link a certain discipline to the image of a super tight athlete and with those certain physical characteristics, but I realized that this is not necessarily the case. It also struck me to see many girls so much taller than me as volleyball and basketball players! I was in the Olympic village for about two weeks, due to the pandemic we could only go out to train, but I can say that I never felt bored even for a minute!

What was the atmosphere? It was very nice to feel the spirit of sharing with the other climbing athletes, there was a cheerful atmosphere, a climate of conviviality. During the races we were all focused, but at the end of the day we were really happy to be together and everyone was happy with the results of other people, in a sincere way. Several people who did not know our sport told us that the fair play that existed between us was palpable, a harmony that can be not found in all disciplines. I got along very well with the other two Italian athletes, Ludovico Fossali and Laura Rogora, whom I already knew, and I was really lucky to have the opportunity to share

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this experience with Jakob Schubert, who is my roommate and one of my greatest friends: I was really happy for his medal and it was great to be able to celebrate together!

What do you think about your performance?

My goal was to get into the final: unfortunately I didn't succeed and I'm still disappointed, but I'm still satisfied with my performance. In the speed discipline I set my personal best, while in bouldering and lead I was very close to being one hundred percent happy. However, I didn't make big mistakes.

What is your favorite Mammut product and why? It's a dark blue, long-sleeved shirt that I really care about. I like it because I can wear it even in more urban situations, like during an elegant dinner. It is an interesting garment, a little bit special, which you might not expect from Mammut (which is a brand closely linked to technical and high quality equipment), and for this very reason I find it fascinating.

How is your collaboration with Mammut going? We really started working together many years ago when I was just thirteen years old. I appreciate their products because they are of the highest standard and I know I can trust the quality with which they are designed and manufactured. The human relationship has also always been very stimulating, I get along well with the people with whom I relate within the company, there has always been an excellent relationship.

Who would you be if you weren't a professional climber? I would certainly be a sportsman anyway, that's how I am, I always have to stay on

Outdoors I experience different feelings, I am calmer and less stressed, and I can take some time to experience nature and enjoy the regenerating environment in which I find myself.

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the move, if possible in nature, find new challenges and constantly test myself. I certainly wouldn't be able to work all day in front of a computer! I believe that if I were not a climber I would do ice hockey, I am very fascinated by this sport that here in the valley is a sort of tradition, moreover my brother has played it for many years and every time I went to see him I have always liked it a lot.

What do you prefer between a race in the gym, a long route in the mountains and bouldering? Now the strongest emotions I have are the ones lived in a race, when me or a friend of mine reach a good result. Outdoors I experience different feelings, I am calmer and less stressed, and I can take some time to experience nature and enjoy the regenerating environment in which I find myself.

Who is Michael in his daily life? I just got my degree in geology, and I really loved the course. Another great passion I have is photography, precisely because, like climbing, it offers endless opportunities for discovery and improvement: I immortalise landscapes, mountains, wildlife and other friends who climb: I also like to express my creativity in this way.

Any short and long term projects? There is not much time to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games but it is certainly my next big goal, even if for the moment I want to take some time to regain energy and the right motivation. In the next few years the focus will still be on competitions, but I would also like to be able to make some nice trips: the first, compatibly with the pandemic, should be in Mallorca in October, to practice deep water. Then I would also like to free some new routes with my friends of the Val Gardena Mountain Guides. Becoming a Mountain Guide could also be a possibility for the future, I think I would like it very much as a job, even if I would have to put in a lot of effort to complete my mountaineering training also on snow and ice.

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Marco Gubert «Travelling is part of ourselves» The chef who runs in nature

BY DAV I D E F I O R AS O PHOTOS DANIELE PERSOGLIO

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Marco Gubert is one of the emerging athletes of the Italian ultra trail scene. Born in 1988, ambassador of The North Face team, he started competing about 7 years ago. He wins and has fun, but for him running remains a passion that comes after his job, cooking in a restaurant. In the past years he achieved more and more ambitious goals, up to his first successes.

In 2019 his exploits began: two sixth places between BVG and Dolomiti di Brenta Trail, the victory at Trail degli Eroi, a top 10 in Cappadocia. And then again, in 2020, the record victory obtained in Sweden at the 100 miles of the Tjörnarparen Trail Ultra and the FKT on the 100km of the Frassati trail, which connects Arco’s Santuario delle Grazie to the one of San Romedio in Val di Non. Let’s come to this 2021, which started with you winning Corsa della Bora. It has been a breath of fresh air, like when you've been holding your breath for too long and you can finally fill your lungs and breathe. The organization took great care to cope with the constraints of the health plan. The great news has been running the Bora at night and at the finish I had the strength to start again for the Challenge. In short, with 120km covered in just less than 13 hours, I can only be happy of this start of the season.

sic or the TGC itself. The trail is not marked, you have to learn to manage multiple situations by carrying a backpack full of stuff. You can find yourself at almost 2000 meters high with 5°C or suffer from the sultry heat of the valleys in the south. You may encounter desert, arid and waterless stretches or forests of cacti and stinging plants that reduce your legs to a sieve. The most difficult moment was when I realized that I had lost the cable to recharge my Garmin. After overcame that inconvenience, I said to myself: “Well, from now on let’s stay focused”. And I never stopped until the finish line. It still impresses me to see how in 46 hours of competition I stopped to sleep for only 7 minutes.

And then, the great challenge, winning the 5th edition of Transgrancanaria 360°. 243km and 13.000 D+, from Tenerife to Maspalomas. It has been first of all a mental test. After 20 hours of running you begin to understand how it will go, you start calculating the minutes per km, which inevitably rise, or the meters in altitude, which gradually decrease. An experience over 100km it is not suitable for everyone. The race is essential, not like an ultra European clas-

An experience that will be difficult to forget.

This competition taught me a lot, both from a sporting and a human point of view. I believe that I will carry forever in my heart the emotions felt. It was really hard. While on paper I seemed to have an advantage in the competition, I never relaxed.

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I was always waiting for a problem or for someone to come and get me. But in the end it didn't happen and I enjoyed the last few kilometers with a thousand thoughts running through my mind.

Being able to say: "I did it!" was really moving.

At your feet, during this challenge, the great news of The North Face for spring 2021: the revolutionary Vectiv technology. Flight Vectiv have been a very powerful weapon to my advantage. Even if it was the first competition in which I wore them, it was "love at first steps". Despite the passing of hours, the shoe has always supported me in terms of comfort and fit, welcoming my feet in an exceptional way and offering me stability and sensitivity. In 2021 I’ve run more than 1000km with this model, I had a call with the TNF R&D department in Annecy with whom I was able to talk and compare, giving precise indications to further improve the product. It would be nice, one day, to be able to meet them in person and thank them for the excellent work done and finally touch with my own hands what they are developing.

How do you become an ambassador of a brand like The North Face and what does it mean? TNF is heavily investing in the world of trail running. It all started through a recruitment campaign conveyed by the points of sale, some of the best Italian shops in the sector, which in turn selected local ambassadors. Boys and girls like me who embody the trail spirit, who are active on social media and can pass on feedback to friends, colleagues and ordinary people. A transparent point of view that is not influenced by the brand. I think it is a wonderful opportunity that offers many chances for growth for the both of us.

You are from Primiero but you have been living in Tenno for some time. Garda Trentino now represents your home and your training ground. I love Alto Garda. It is a living land, which gives you the opportunity to practice different activities every day of the year. For a sportsman and outdoor enthusiast like me it’s a paradise. This territory combines services, landscapes, climate and sporting conviviality like few other places in Italy, if not in Europe. In the future I would like to manage a small refreshment point here, a sort of base for Trail Running Camps, with the possibility of consuming typical products and taking part in running classes or cycling tours. We will see

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if I will be able to put these ideas into reality.

Your days are divided between training and cooking at the restaurant Rolly in Riva del Garda. How do you manage to combine these two activities? Yes, I am known as "the running chef". I am used to working and producing, I am tireless in this respect. I like to always be busy and get my work done. One of my secrets is the ability to never sit still, I always find time to do some little extra work. I think this was how I built my endurance and perseverance in facing the toughest challenges. Nothing is impossible, just divide it into many small pieces and make it a little at a time.

UTMB, your seasonal goal, is coming. In Chamonix the parterre will be incredible: Jim Walmsley, Hayden Hawks, Pau Capell, Tim Tollefson, Francois D’Haene. How do you feel and what do you expect from this race? UTMB is a very extraordinary and unique event, extremely engaging also from an emotional point of view. If I should give myself an overall grade, I would say 7,5/8. I can not deny that the expectations were different: the time I had set for myself, and which will be my goal for 2022, is 24 hours, and I believe that by continuing to dedicated myself to this goal I will be able to achieve that. It must be said that, having never run this race before, there were so many things I didn't know and when you find yourself there, no matter how much you have studied every part of it, you still have to face the unknowns. From a strictly sporting point of view I give myself a 7, while for my stubbornness and my desire to finish the race I give myself a 10 because I never gave up, I believed in it. It was a team effort that required a long organization and to which I dedicated a lot of time in the months before the race.

What about the future? In the sport field I would like to bond deeply and solidly to The North Face. I get along well with the people I have known, from a human point of view I have never had anything to do with something like this. We are a close-knit group with a single goal, which is not just about numbers but a real brand awareness in its highest meaning: to identify with the brand because you believe in its principles. And I believe I am part of it in the purest and simplest way. I wish I could become an example to follow, with good intentions, remaining a simple person without presumptions.

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Alex Honnold A drink with the king

BY S O F I A PA R I S I PHOTOS BY CHRIS ADAM & KEITH LADZINSKI

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A beer can never be denied, especially to Alex Honnold.

On a rainy Wednesday afternoon in July, at a cafe table, I met perhaps the best known climber in the world (even in the world of non-climbers), and we had a chat.

Hi Alex! First of all, what are you doing in Chamonix in one of the wettest summers in the history of the Alps? It is actually not the best time to be here. Anyway I’m spending some time in Europe for a future project, but I cannot anticipate much. Basically I am doing some high altitude routes. Except that at the moment, at high altitudes, there is a lot of snow! It’s really crazy.

Do you like Chamonix? Yes, I like it, I had been here another time, for a few days, but I hadn't climbed anything serious. Last week we tried to climb a bit at high altitude, unfortunately we only had good weather on the first day, and on the first day at high altitude you shouldn't exaggerate. You have to acclimatize. I felt like my heart was exploding due to the altitude! Anyway, I like Chamonix, we climbed several crags here in the valley, then there was the Climbing World Cup. And then there is so much history. And people are super motivated! Just the fact of seeing at least twenty paragliders in the air every day is truly incredible! Even when there’s bad weather! Do you all fly here?

That makes me smile, he has been able to solo climb El Capitan and other extreme difficult and long routes, without ropes,

carabiners, friends, in short, everything that "normal" people use in climbing for avoid exposing themselves to the risk of falling from very high altitudes. He has extra-ordinary doses of motivation and energy, but now seems to me like a child who surprises of the more or less impressive challenges made by others. Alex Honnold is a 35 year old man who still get to be surprised. And he is also very curious. Not by chance, in fact, some time ago he has launched into the production of podcasts.

Tell me a little about your new business, let's start with Climbing Gold. How did it start and what is it about? Climbing Gold was an idea by co-host Fitz Cahall. Before Covid I was offered to be a commentator at the Olympics, but I had absolutely no experience in commenting on sporting events, much less on the Olympics. But since I'm a guy who often replies "Oh, of course why not!" to new proposals, well, I said yes. And then Fitz asked me to lead a climbing podcast and I thought it would be a

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perfect way to learn and explore the different issues related to climbing and the Olympics. The first season of the podcast talks about the history of climbing, and how the sport has evolved to the point of becoming an Olympic discipline. We are now working on the second season which is more dedicated to the world of competitions and the Olympics. In any case for me it is a great opportunity first of all to work with someone like Fitz, who is extremely good at what he does. Then to prepare, try to interview, comment, all the things I have to learn before the Olympics.

And how is it going? Well, actually I don't know almost anything about the Olympics yet, but I know a lot more about climbing, so I would say the result is positive, it was an opportunity to talk to many exceptional climbers and to hear and tell fantastic stories. .

Do you feel comfortable telling other people's stories? Honestly, it's super fun to voice others' great

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climbing stories. I've spent so much time taking part in movies and being photographed.

Everything was always focused on me, and it's nice to talk about other people by telling their stories. Many can't even make it back into the podcast, because one episode only lasts 40 minutes. I enjoy hearing various anecdotes and it is quite inspiring from a personal point of view as well. One thing I didn't expect is that so many of my friends are listening to it and I am receiving very positive feedback, it seems that we have really contributed to giving something to climbing. It's nice to share these stories, to preserve them.

It's a bit like writing a book or making a movie: when you're done, you feel like you've created something that will stay forever. I like to think that I have given something to the world of climbing.

that this popularity, thanks or not to the Olympics, will only increase the level of both indoor and outdoor climbing. I see it as a good thing in general, because it brings more talent into the sport, more energy.

Historically, climbing has always meant adventure. Indoor climbing is undoubtedly closer to performance.

As your athletic level increases, your adventure potential also increases.

It is an interesting aspect: we interviewed people who think that becoming part of the Olympics is bad for climbing, that it will compromise its soul. I don’t know. We came to the idea that climbing should simply be divided into two disciplines, such as ski mountaineering and freeriding.

Sport climbing and adventure climbing, let's say! Imagine if someone could climb El Cap at the same speed as a speed climber!

What do you like about "making podcasts?" I've always been very curious. I like to discover other people's interesting ideas, it allows me to see the world in a slightly different way.

I'm curious yes, and I think one of the pleasures of being a professional climber is getting in touch with interesting people and stories. I didn't go to university, I don't have a technical background, so I try to draw from everyone to the fullest!

The evolution of equipment also helps. Sure. I have been collaborating with The North Face for over ten years now. It is not that much time compared to the history of climbing but as regards the equipment I must say that I am more and more impressed by how all the products are always lighter, smaller and more performing. This crazy progression of materials is brilliant and undoubtedly helps to live adventures more and more easily, in order to worry only about enjoying the experience to the fullest.

What story did you like the most?

I think my favorite episode is the second one in which we talked to Joanne Urioste, a lady who lives, like me, in Las Vegas. She and her husband in the seventies opened most of the famous routes in Red Rock, where I mostly climb. Now their routes are climbed at least ten times every weekend and are covered in chalk.

The rock is perfect, it's like a gym.

Hearing her story about when they opened those routes in the middle of nowhere was fantastic!

What do you think of climbing at the Olympics? Climbing has now become a mainstream sport, you know. My personal opinion is

Do you hang up with young climbers? In Las Vegas I often climb with two guys who are about 17 years old, they are always very motivated and energetic. A couple of years ago I was still the youngest in the grousp, not anymore! That said, I feel really old!

But yeah, in a way I'm just naturally embracing this role, because now I'm climbing often with people who are less experienced than me, and I'm happy to teach, share, contribute to their growth. I think it's a natural process: as time goes by you care a little less about pushing hard. I am

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happy to live in a more relaxed way.

Have you made peace with your need to experience exceptional adventures? I think that in order to do certain things, achieve certain goals, you have to dedicate yourself completely to them. Mind, body, spirit, heart. But you don't always need these experiences and feelings in every moment of your life. There are people who, because of the conditions of the mountain, or of life, do not get what they want, and therefore remain hungry forever, never satisfied.

I am extremely grateful that I have achieved many of the goals I wanted to do, I am a little more satisfied now.

You know, I'm still super motivated, but also a little more relaxed, I think.

And that's the beauty of it.

We went on chatting about many things, but a long conversation between people who talk a lot is not easy to write down in an appreciable way. What we can tell you is that Alex Honnold hosts a super interesting podcast, Planet Visionaries, which highlights the stories of pioneers in the world of sustainability.

Still on the subject of sustainability, in 2012 he founded the Honnold Foundation which supports sustainable energy development projects around the world.

We can also tell you that he will never come to live in the Alps because "the roads are small and winding, sheep suddenly cross the road and the phone does not work sometimes!" and even in the most urban areas everything is too complicated, compared to Las Vegas, to go climbing: "have you ever thought about making straight roads?"

I think that in order to do certain things, achieve certain goals, you have to dedicate yourself completely to them. Mind, body, spirit, heart. I am extremely grateful that I have achieved many of the goals I wanted to do, I am a little more satisfied now.

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Olympics & not just of pizza

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Some notes for the reader: A) Being seated at a table of people who speak a foreign language forces you to smile like a stupid but at the same time gives you the luxury of fantasizing. What you will find written in German is a figment of my fervent imagination. Or maybe not.

B) This article was written before the Tokyo Olympics.

C) What’s the funny thing about a mango?

If I say “pizza”, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Even before being a word, pizza is an emotion. Someone defines it as "Pythagoras' Nirvana": a circle, cut into triangles, within a square.

“Geil, Misha. Es is super gut. Die Art, wie ich das Gemüse geschnitten habe, war entscheidend”. Jakob is congratulating Misha on how the pizza came out of the oven, specifying however that the way he cut vegetables was also fundamental.

There are those who use their hands and others who use cutlery to feed themselves, those who start from the center and those from the edges, those who eat the edges or leave them aside and so on. We can all agree that you understand a lot of things from how a person eats a pizza. It is the human side of every person. I've never met someone who didn't like it. In case that someone exists, I would distrust that person immediately. "Pizza" is the best known Italian word in the world, which is why if you live abroad and you were born in this beautiful country, there is an unwritten law that forces you to become an ambassador of the noblest and poorest of arts.

Tonight I am in an apartment not far from the center of Innsbruck. And here you can feel competition arising. There is not only the atmosphere of a pizza Olympics final, but also the breeze of another Olympics.

The real one. Tokyo 2021. I am in the capital of North Tyrol with the specific task of photographing the life of Misha (nickname of Michael) and his friend Jakob. “Jakob! Ich könnte sie mit geschlossenen Augen so schneiden”. Just to clarify how an orangutan would have prepared that julienne better than him. “Kommt alle an den Tisch!

Die Pizza ist fertig!” We’re having dinner also with Lukas, Alfons, Nikolai and Jakob's girlfriend. They laugh, joke and, like good Austrians, open up many beers. Although my German is stuck to high school, alcohol lowers the language barrier.

They are of course talking about climbing.

Michael Piccolruaz is an excellent pizzaiolo, in my humble opinion one of the best, since he is part of that school according to which the first ingredient is "to make a virtue of every necessity". In fact, if you are able to read the raw material, it is possible to prepare a pizza as god commands, even if the tomato is not veracious, the mozzarella is not d.o.p. and the oven is not wood fired. Everyone knows that in the kitchen, especially when it comes to the magic disc, it is love that counts.

Misha and Jakob are both climbers. And they are roommates.

Both will fly to Japan in August with the hope of becoming Olympic Champion.

It is already very rare to qualify for the Olympics, let alone win, especially for two people living under the same roof.

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It is already very rare to qualify for the Olympics, let alone win, especially for two people living under the same roof. Fortunately, there is no rivalry between Jakob and Micha, but only a healthy instinct to improve each other.

Michael Piccolruaz

Fortunately, there is no rivalry between Jakob and Micha, but only a healthy instinct to improve each other. Those who know the world of climbing will already know Jakob and Misha and will know that they are certainly not pussies. For those who do not master the subject in question, I’ll provide a short technical explanation. While you read it, if you don't mind, we will go on with our dinner.

He defined climbing as "a lifestyle that allows him to express himself at his best".

He has distinguished himself, especially in the past, in the practice of bouldering, that type of explosive climbing made of a few movements on boulders of variable height. This does not mean that he disdains rope climbing. He has opened and repeated routes both in the gym and on the crag. He’s also a gaming enthusiast and, as anticipated at the beginning, also a more than discreet pizzaiolo. He is also an excellent photographer, but at the moment he prefers to focus more on climbing. He will not be as favored in the final victory, but we know that during certain sporting events it doesn’t make any sense to make predictions. It is the beauty of sport.

Jakob Schubert He has been a three-time World Champion and seven-time winner of the Overall World Cup, in that sense he is one of the most successful climbers of his kind.

Jakob is one of those climbers who, as a good professional, like to set ambitious but difficult goals to achieve. He likes to train. Jakob enjoys the pleasure of movement, sweat and the sharing of effort. He trains five times a week at the Kletterzentrum in Innsbruck, the most advanced facility in Europe, and the epicenter of the Olympic training of most of its participants. Jakob is one of the candidates for the final victory, but this does not seem to put pressure on him. He is also known to be one of the strongest rock climbers in the world. His quest for grade prompted him to repeat important routes, first of all Perfecto Mundo, the 9b+ route bolted by Chris Sharma and freed by Alex Megos in 2018. Outside the world of climbing, Jakob likes to play video games and to pass the time with his family and girlfriend. He has been involved in chess for some time.

If only he knew that I have a past as junior European vice-champion.

“Misha, kann ich noch eine Scheibe haben?”.

Misha gives him another slice of pizza.

Misha and Jakob have known each other for years.

In fact, both have attended the racing circuit at an international level since they were teenagers. Competitions are a tight environment. In fact, getting to know each other is quite simple. But there is a big difference between being acquaintances and being friends. Their relationship consolidated at the Eindhoven European Championship in 2013, where they both had access to the final: a perfect moment from which to blossom a friendship. Then followed many days at the crag, climbing and, obviously, many competitions as rivals. It was in the summer of 2017 that Ja-

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The Olympics is in fact the most important result that an athlete can aspire to, but there’s more. The fact that climbing has in fact become a sport recognized at this level has a number of consequences. kob asked Misha (who at that time was looking for a new home in order to attend the Innsbruck university) to become his new roommate. Together with them there are other two roommates, Alfons and Lukas.

seems now that this format pushed them to give their best, Jakob and Misha first of all. The Olympics is in fact the most important result that an athlete can aspire to, but there’s more. The fact that climbing has in fact become a sport recognized at this level has a number of consequences.

Greater visibility means greater investments, therefore more money not only for the infrastructure, but also for individual athletes. If it is now extremely difficult to make a living out of climbing, but this could change in the future. The fact that it is a combined format (starting from 2024 there will be two medals: one for speed and one for the combination of lead and boulder) means that the level is now much lower than it could actually be when each discipline will be recognized as a single specialty with a single medal. Furthermore, another important consequence will be that the figure of the climber will increasingly move towards the world of plastic rather than rocks. The average level of its practitioners will grow exponentially and in a not too distant future an athlete will soon reach the watershed of the fateful choice: crag or gym? Here it will be necessary to see if there will be still sponsors willing to invest in sport climbing in its original form. Maybe Jakob and Misha will already be too old to worry about it, but in sport “never say never”.

During dinner Misha tells me that life among roommates-climbers is cool, despite the fact that they sleep little and too often it's up to him to clean the bathroom.

“Jakob! Du bist an der Reihe, das Geschirr zu reinigen”. As a guest, I get up to do the dishes before the mozzarella turns into a concrete crust. As I get up from the table, I can't help but notice a penis-shaped magnet attached to the fridge. I smile. As with beer, there are no language barriers for sex.

The one in August will be the first Olympics not only for them, but for climbing itself. The Olympic Movement has in fact opened the doors to five new sports without reducing the existing ones: karate, skateboarding, surfing, baseball/softball (these already included in the years between 1996 and 2008) and sport climbing.

The competition at the Games will take place on 3 disciplines: lead, speed and boulder. The medal will be awarded to those who achieve the best possible results in the three disciplines, according to what in the Olympic language is defined as "combined". Although at the beginning there was a lot of perplexity from the athletes about mixing different disciplines, it

“Gute Nacht, Matteo”.

“Good night” I answer.

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Va’ Sentiero Second step TEXT YURI BASILICÒ PHOTOS SARA FURLANETTO

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After a forced stop due to the Covid pandemic, at the end of summer 2020, the Va’ Sentiero expedition started again its journey along Sentiero Italia.

For Va’ Sentiero, 2020 should have been the second and last expedition stage on Sentiero Italia: from April to October, in 7 months, we would have had to cross all the mountains in the Center-South of Italy. Then the pandemic happened, followed by a national lockdown, and our plans had to deal with reality. Im-

possible to finish our trip on schedule. So we looked for an alternative solution: starting at the end of the summer, covering the road from Visso (Marche) to Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia), in order to keep the project alive. We will complete the expedition in 2021, hoping for better conditions.

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September 1st Castelluccio di Norcia. 3615km On the morning of August 30th we put our backpacks on our shoulders and resumed our march from the Sibillini Mountains. It was traumatic to cross the many villages devastated by the 2016 earthquake.

When we passed through the first destroyed houses, a deafening silence interrupted all chatter. I stood for a long time looking at a vertical wall, the only fragment of a house still standing: the steel rods protruded from the edge of the collapsed ceiling, the shutters of a halved window slammed to the asynchronous rhythm of the wind and the doorposts framed a strip of grey sky. I

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found it fascinating in its decline, then suddenly I felt an indefinite feeling, perhaps a sense of shame.

From the first day I was struck by the attitude of the people we met, their cheerful propensity to have fun, no matter what. We had to understand how to handle that but it took us little time. They had an overflowing speech, often closing sentences in a way so there was not always an easy way to distinguish questions from affirmations, and the use "scì" instead of “sì" (yes). It was surprising how generous these people could be despite the enormous difficulties they had faced for years.

September 9th Campotosto. 3704km In Campotosto, a small village at the feet of Monti della Laga, we were hosted by Casa della Comunità, a place wanted by the Alpini’s Italian Army after the earthquake that destroyed the town in January 2017. The mayor welcomed us, a man with a sad and dry face like that one of Eduardo De Filippo, along with two old friends.

After some welcoming exchanges, they unwrapped a piece of guanciale and started to cook with the typical efficiency of the Alpine Army. Amatriciana and wine mixed generously while our guests started telling their childhood pranks in a country without refrigerators and street lamps, "when poverty united us". In the morning, we found a big white dog standing outside the door, a young thin Abruzzo’s shepherd without a collar.

He started trotting alongside us and it was useless to try to make him go away, a lady leaning on her stick told us that the dog arrived in the village a few days earlier, following some hikers like us. He was alone. So we let him follow us. He was docile and well educated, he seemed used to being with men. He used to wander in

the woods following a smell, then he came back joining us as if we were his flock: it took little time to love him. We called him Tosto, which means tough guy, an inside joke also regarding the place where we found it, Campotosto.

Once in Nerito, at the end of the stage, we bought him some croquettes and while he ate them we fantasized about taking him with us, already thinking about the practical implications of having a dog for the next few months. The idea galvanized me, I've always dreamed of having a dog.

Then, after a nap, Tosto left and we didn't see him anymore. After dinner I took a walk and saw him in an alley, I called after him and he immediately turned around, running up to me and throwing himself on me, wagging his tail. When I told him "come on boy, let's go to sleep, tomorrow will be a long day" he looked me straight in the eye and in that precise moment I was aware that was a goodbye: Tosto was a free spirit and would never have any owners. I watched him disappear from where he came from, his white mantle swallowed up by the night like the sails of a galleon farther and farther away.

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September 15th Duca degli Abruzzi Refuge. 3797km I looked at my watch, it was 3 in the morning. Someone was banging something metallic, waking us all up: it was Matteo, a high school guy who joined us for a few days, his head always in the clouds and a genuine enthusiasm for the mountains. In the pitch darkness of the barracks where we were guests, he began to close his sleeping bag systematically bumping into everything around him, then he put on his jacket and wool cap and stood in the dark, dangling in anticipation. The alarm clock was set at 4 and I would have love to punch him in the head for taking that extra hour of sleep away, but he was a very nice guy: I think he hadn't had any sleep because of the thrill of climbing the summit of Gran Sasso.

On the horizon rose the constellation of Orion. We didn't often leave so early and we were surprised of being so happy despite the lack of sleep. The walls of Corno Piccolo recalled, in color, the limestone of the Dolomites, but were much smoother and more compact.

Silence enveloped us. The top of Corno Grande appeared only at the last, after a steep progression in a maze of rocks and gullies. The cold wind blew but the now high sun offered some warmth. We put a Va’ Sentiero sticker on the iron cross and embraced ourselves euphoric: we were on the highest point of the Apennines, at 2912 meters high, in the ideal center of Italy. Hundreds of meters below, the Campo Imperatore meadow set out, an ocean of faded

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grass combed by the mistral where Sergio Leone used to shoot the Dollar Trilogy. With us there were about ten hikers and the atmosphere was cheerful, relaxed, but when we looked out on the classic trail downhill, below us we saw an endless line of people, crowded together like ants, we’d never seen anything like this, not even on the Alps.

Smiling to myself, I addressed a grateful thought to the sleepless high school student who made us reach the top just in time to be able to enjoy it in peace.

We put a Va’ Sentiero sticker on the iron cross and embraced ourselves euphoric: we were on the highest point of the Apennines

October 2nd Agnone. 4112km With its few roads, wild nature, small and distant villages, Molise is morphologically predisposed to welcome silence and peace. The Marinelli Foundry has been forging Vatican bells for over a thousand years. For its services, Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti, the great mountaineer who opened the Normale Italiana route on Mont Blanc) granted the Marinelli family the use of the Papal Coat of Arms, a very rare privilege.

The palace houses a museum of bells of all shapes and ages, of which Mr. Antonio told us everything about.

Antonio had been the bell ringer of the foundry for ten decades, once retired, the property asked him to be the guide of the museum. Crossing the threshold of the actual workshop we went a long way back in time: the clay molds, the wood-burning furnace, the sweat-smoothed tool handles.

“We don't need electricity. We create the bells with the same specific procedure used in the year 1000: step by step. Our job involves a slow pace that does not belong to this era". On the side hanged a dozen bells of different sizes arranged in ascending order. Antonio held a wooden hammer and, jumping from one to the other with unexpected agility, began to beat them while intoning famous arias. A white light emanated from the windows and the beams of dust seemed to jingle with those celestial tolls.

“We don't need electricity.

We create the bells with the same specific procedure used in the year 1000: step by step. Our job involves a slow pace that does not belong to this era".

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October 30th Santa Maria di Leuca. 4908km Da Torre Guaceto proseguiamo verso sud, lungo la costa adriatica. A fine ottobre si sta in maniche di camicia, nei giorni più caldi approfittiamo delle calette di sabbia fina per un tuffo.

Il sentiero si è fatto cammino e i chilometri scorrono veloci sotto i piedi.

D’altra parte dobbiamo spicciarci. La situazione sanitaria sta nuovamente precipitando, dopo la tregua estiva, la pandemia è tornata a fare paura.

Col passare dei giorni lo spettro di un nuovo lockdown si fa sempre più tangibile e con esso il timore di trovarci

bloccati prima di arrivare a destinazione. Sospendiamo le pause, uniamo le tappe, marciamo a passo forzato in una corsa contro il tempo. Siamo tutti stanchi. Dalla partenza, tra i Monti Sibillini, abbiamo camminato per oltre 1300 chilometri superando cime e crinali, boschi e praterie, ma le strade pugliesi, appena ondulate, si rivelano più provanti delle vette appenniniche. L’acido lattico si accumula nei muscoli, il sonno nelle occhiaie, il senso d’urgenza non aiuta. Nel tardo pomeriggio del 30 ottobre vediamo

spuntare in lontananza la sagoma del grande faro di Leuca, bianco e altissimo. Gridiamo e ci diamo qualche pacca, pregustando il traguardo. Poi, lentamente, finiamo tutti per zittirci.

Guardo i miei compagni di viaggio camminare silenziosi in fila indiana, ognuno perso nei suoi pensieri. Arriviamo al faro proprio mentre l’ultimo sole giganteggia sull’orlo dello Ionio. È la prima volta dalla partenza che possiamo guardarlo scomparire nel mare. Una targa sul muro suggella il momento.

This is where the journey ends, where for a moment you feel at home and that moment lasts an eternity.

VA’ S E N T I E R O EXPEDITION IS GOING ON ALONG SENTIERO I TA L I A B E T W E E N T H E M O U N TA I N S O F S O U T H I TA LY. L E T ’ S K E E P U P DAT E D O N W W W.VA S E N T I E R O . O R G @ VA S E N T I E R O

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Alta Via dell'Ortles LAGO DI CANCANO

Ortles, thanks to its 3905 meters above sea level, is the highest mountain in Alto Adige and, together with Cevedale (3769), represents the most important and sought-after peak of the mountain range of the Rhaetian Alps. Important pages in the history of mountaineering have been written on these glaciers, glacial moraines and rocks, and these areas still continue to represent places of great interest for outdoor activities.

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Breathe in silence There is another trail that allows you to discover this paradise in seven stages: a spectacular and high mountain itinerary that develops in the Ortles-Cevedale chain, it is about 120 kilometers long and forms a large ring starting and ending at the Stelvio Pass. Alta Via Ortles is an itinerary reserved for expert hikers, able to manage themselves in high altitude conditions and who know how to move in the mountains: its trails, often technical and exposed, must be faced with a secure step and physical and mental preparation. This long multiday trek can be covered in five days up to one week, obviously based on your preparation. Some stages are very long and with great differences in altitude, so it is good to evaluate your itinerary from time to time and choose whether to stop in the numerous mountain huts and refuges along the route to refresh, rest and regain your energy.

In the heart of the Stelvio National Park The first stage of the trail develops almost entirely downhill, it is about 18 km long with only 300 meters of elevation. However, because of my loaded backpack, it took me about six hours to complete the stage and to reach Stelvio.

Once parked at the Stelvio Pass I began to climb slightly towards Cima Garibaldi. The paved road of the Pass, always popular with motorcyclists and cyclists, immediately gave way to the wildest nature, rocks and the snow at high altitude, with some easy crossings even on the trail. From there begins a long and gentle descent that first leads back to the woods, which then becomes meadows and increasingly dense vegetation. The town of Stelvio is the right place to spend the hours left in the evening drinking something typical and tasting some traditional dishes before leaving for the following stages.

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Life is a journey to be explored on foot A wake up early call and I immediately set off for one of the hardest stages of this Alta Via: on the second day, in fact, the menu included almost 2000 meters of altitude to be covered in less than 20 kilometers. From Stelvio, unlike the day before, I immediately started to climb after a short descent, first on a mule track, then on a trail and finally on mountain terrain. The landscape became severe again: the meadows turned to black rocks, and the snow and ice became a constant again. The ascent to the Serristori refuge turned out to be more complicated than expected, in fact I needed several dishes of hot soup to regain energy and go to bed with the desire to get up early the following day.

Saddle up and we’re off The third stage, which connects the Serristori hut to the Nino Corsi hut, is probably one of the most beautiful of the Alta Via: it doesn’t have too much difference in altitude, and so I decided to connect it to the next stage, aiming directly at the Pizzini hut. Taking advantage of the last scheduled day of good weather I managed to connect these two central stages, even if doing so led me to a very long walk, which started at dawn and ended with a headlamp in the evening. In the presence of these stone giants, with a cup of tea in my hands on the balcony of the Pizzini Refuge, I felt really small, seeing the sun descending behind the peaks illuminated by the pink light of the sunset. From there,

the way to finish the ring became a challenge of resistance. The night at 3000 meters at the Pizzini refuge was very short and dawn arrived immediately. Breakfast did not reinvigorate me enough from the energy spent in the past days and therefore I started walking very calmly downhill from Val Zebrù, in the presence of the Gran Zebrù and Punta San Matteo.

Valfurva: pure emotions Reaching Valfurva is a long hike downhill, the kilometers are about twenty and the difference in altitude is less than 900 meters, but at the end of the day it made itself felt. Once in the Valley, however, I took off my socks and put my feet in a cold stream, and after eating a welldeserved pizza, I felt ready to close the ring.

The first ten kilometers in fact took place on cycling and pedestrian paths, municipal roads, and the route almost always developed along a plain itinerary: time and distance run fast.

Then I started to climb again, I found a forest trail and then reached the Scale lake and the Valle di Fraele dam. The arrival at the lake was exciting, after many hours in solitude, spent walking alone in the mountains, I finally found myself at the end of the ring.

The arrival at the lake was exciting, after many hours in solitude, spent walking alone in the mountains, I finally found myself at the end of the ring.

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Autumn Events M AT I N G C A L L S O F T H E R E D D E E R 02-03 OCT 2021

S T E LV I O N AT I O N A L PA R K

At the end of September, you can hear mating cries of the red deer echoing through the autumn forests of the National Park.

A L P I N E TA I L S 16 OCT - 06 NOV 2021 RIO PUSTERIA, BRESSANONE, C H I U S A - B A R B I A N O - V E LT U R N O - V I L L A N D R O , N A Z - S C I A V E S , L U S O N

Autumn colors, panoramic peaks and fresh mountain air in a unique alpine hut experience to get to know this land, its people and its customs.

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Outdoor experiences with a magnificent landscape. Guided sunrise hikes with breakfast in a mountain refuge, culinary hikes with tasting sessions.

AUTUMN SHOW 09 SEP - 01 NOV 2021

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Experience the Dolomites every day from a different point of view. A moment to relax, find rest and admire one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Alps.

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Alta Via di Fundres It's a special day, I'm with my two closest friends that I haven't seen in a long time and we can't wait to experience a memorable adventure together. We are along Alta Via di Fundres, a spectacular itinerary, immersed in the unspoiled nature of the Dolomites, which starts from Vipiteno in the Alta Valle Isarco and leads to the surroundings of Brunico in Val Pusteria.

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This trek, which can be divided into six stages (one a day), is quite challenging, and to go to its discovery it is necessary to have an excellent level of physical preparation, as well as the appropriate equipment and clothing (a via ferrata set is a must have). If you decide to tackle the Alta Via with your family, it is recommended that children are at least 15/17 years old and are trained to move for hours in the mountains, even on technical sections. Every day, in fact, you will walk at an average altitude of 2000 meters for at least for seven hours, at the end you will cover 70 kilometers and 5600 meters in altitude, starting from Val di Vizze up to the Aurina di Tures valley: the view of the Zillertaler Alpen and of the Dolomites are truly breathtaking. The most suitable period for this trek is from the end of June to the beginning of October. Alta Via is marked with a red circle.

The first part starts from Vitipeno and reaches the Simile mountain hut (about seven hours): thanks to the watchful eyes of Giorgia, one of my friends, we find and eat a lot of really sweet and delicious strawberries. It is very hot, but we are taken by our stories and by the extraordinary views that we are going through and we do not think about it. We proceed fast and with a secure step, even if we do not miss some breaks for a selfie and to immortalize the magnificent edelweiss we meet on our way. From the Simile hut we continue in the direction of the Bressanone refuge, humming some melodies from our childhood. We are alone on the trail and we really like the feeling of being at least for a while in the wild. We believe in the importance of discovering the neighboring spaces: you can live extraordinary experiences even close to home, without having to reach exotic places, the important thing is to respect the customs of the places you pass through, as well as people, animals and everything that you meet along the way.

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Some gossip and laughter under the stars and we're ready for our sleeping bags. The trail that leads us to the Ponte di Ghiaccio refuge is the one that most impresses me: we walk near a small stream and then, slowly, the vegetation disappears to make room for rocks and debris.

The very technical climb and the difference in altitude are felt! I turn around and take a few seconds to observe the green expanses we have just crossed. I breathe and try to live this unique moment to the fullest.

Ponte di Ghiaccio refuge, a lighthouse in the mountains The Ponte di Ghiaccio refuge, located at 2545 meters above sea level, is minimal and selfsufficient from an energy point of view but built following a contemporary architecture and the

attention paid to the choice of materials and functionality is perceived. The large windows fill the refuge with light and make me feel full of positive energy. From the refuge it is possible to climb many peaks: Gran Pilastro, Grande Mesule or Punta Bianca, for example. The refuge is located on the stretch that connects Lappago with the Fundres Valley and from here you can also see the enchanting Lake Neves. Just enough time to drink a welcome mountain “drink” (a tasty and sweet grappa made by the owner) and we go out again near the refuge. Out here, waiting for us, there is the largest and redest full moon I've ever seen in my life. I am really at peace, and I can't wait to eat my knödel.

After a mountain trek you are smarter The following day we wake up early: our destination is the Lago Pausa Refuge (where the homonymous lake is located), and even today we know that we have at least seven/eight hours of walking ahead of us. This is considered by many people the most evocative stretch of the entire Alta Via: the difference in altitude is challenging (about 1100m) but the view is wonderful, and it is easy to meet ibex, deer and chamois. The last stretch extends from the Lago Pausa Refuge to San Giorgio, in Valle Aurina di Tures: also this part of the trail (calculate at least seven/eight hours of walking) offers unforgettable views, such as the one on Tre Cime di Lavaredo.

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Dolomites UNESCO Geotrail Among the many excursion possibilities of South Tyrol, the Dolomites UNESCO Geotrail is certainly one of the most interesting and complete: it allows you to discover the most scenic and famous destinations of this area by exploring it on foot and living unforgettable days immersed in nature.

An old-time trail As the name itself implies, this trail develops among the mountains declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009, and allows you to relive the geological history of the Dolomites which 200 million years ago were only atolls in the sea.

It may seem absurd, but even the mountains, which seem immobile and immutable, are in fact subject to radical changes and, just like everything, they evolve and transform, only with much more dilated times than those of mankind.

The entire trail, which can be completed in 10 stages, is more than 170km long: it starts from Bletterbach, near Bolzano, and arrives in Sesto Pusteria. The Dolomites UNESCO Geotrail

is a multi-day trail and you can sleep in different refuges and huts at the end of each stage. Some stages are also ideal for a day trip as they end in the valley: it is the best way to learn the history of the Dolomites step by step and retrace their chronological evolution thanks to detailed signs with various interesting information.

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A little bit of history I spent the night at a friends’ house and then I chose to take the third stage of the Dolomites UNESCO Geotrail following the route that leads from the Costalunga Pass to the Alpe di Tires refuge. This stage is one of the most demanding one as the trails you will cross are often technical and require a secure step and in some parts it is essential not to be afraid of heights because the most exposed sections have ropes both uphill and downhill. It is about fifteen kilometers long

with 1700 meters of difference in altitude, so you must take in consideration that it could take you much more time than expected. The certainty, however, is that the effort will be rewarded by several delicious slices of cake (absolutely deserved) at the Alpe di Tires refuge. This stage is also particularly interesting for those who are passionate about the history of mountaineering, as you will pass through legendary destinations from many eras, and have the opportunity to observe the most famous ascent route towards Monti Pallidi and Catinaccio.

Whoever arrives first waits Another noteworthy aspect is that along the itinerary you will encounter various refuges, such as Paolina and Preuss, as well as Vajolet (located near the homonymous, fascinating tower) which will allow you to live the day without stress and be able to rest in complete tranquility while enjoying spectacular views. Another aspect to consider if you decide to undertake the Dolomites UNESCO Geotrail is that, taking advantage of the excellent South Tyrolean public transport network, it is easy to travel from stage to stage without hitchhiking rides, and to be able to organize yourself independently travelling in a environment friendly way.

This trail develops among the mountains declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009, and allows you to relive the geological history of the Dolomites which 200 million years ago were only atolls in the sea.

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La Sportiva Lavaredo Ultra Trail TEXT FILIPPO MAURIZIO PHOTOS DENIS PICCOLO

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Even though I have sometimes found myself running at night, particularly in winter after work, I have never completely gotten used to running in the dark.

In fact, in the city darkness is never completely dark: street lamps, electricity brought with wires to houses, factories, not to mention car lights that always interrupt the black flow of darkness.

You can find an illuminated advertising board everywhere even in the suburbs and in those moments your pupils will dilate and your brain will relax, thinking about something other than the simple vital function of running. You can run "entering the night", that is, starting when it is still day and going on when it’s dark or "going out", that is, starting in darkness, seeing the night dissolve at dawn, as at LUT. In that case, dawn will wake you up from numbness and your body will be regenerated, or at least, that's what everyone said would happen in the woods of the Dolomites.

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A night at LUT is very different from a night in town. First you find yourself at 11pm together with thousands of other small lights. Some people have headlamps that light up the way, someone has tiny lights with which they barely see their own steps.

In the dark, your breath takes on consistency and condenses. Lights, colors and tense looks of the runners ready to leave for the mountains, all the headlamps together illuminate the town in a sudden and schizophrenic way, reflecting bright colors.

find yourself alone. There are no longer external stimuli and your brain clings to what there is left. In those moments the forest comes to life, you can hear animals running very close to you, owls getting annoyed by your passage and finally the sound of the cold wind covering every human sound, far away, detached from you. Sometimes it’s scary to run alone in the dark, after a few hours you feel lost and that feeling of anxiety makes you

But the real night starts around 2am, when you find yourself alone. There are no longer external stimuli and your brain clings to what there is left.

Then the lights lengthen and on the slopes of the mountains you can glimpse a single long snake that draws the trails and edges of the forest, up to the most distant stony ground, where the first ones begin, the others are already detached. But the real night starts around 2am, when you

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burn a lot of energy, so you have to be good at enjoying the journey, suspending the irrational judgments of emotions and letting yourself be embraced by magical darkness, continuing to run following the light that illuminates the trail a few meters from your feet.

the button to turn off your headlamp. You don't have a mirror to see what marks it left on your face. Without ever having felt sleep deprived, you sit for a moment on a stone kissed by the sun to unwrap a bar and enjoy the moment. Everything relaxes, the city is a distant memory. In front of you there are still too many kilometers.

The night at LUT always seems endless.

The features of the other more drawn-out runners, the eyes that frightened reflect the light like cats crossing the road, the dawn that doesn't seem to come and then comes like an explosion. In a few minutes the world regains its lost edges, horizons and shapes. The foliage of the pines light up, as well as the rocky walls that are tinged with pink and gray, everything is warmed by the sun, the light and the warmth of dawn. You take off your gloves and press

In a few minutes the world regains its lost edges, horizons and shapes. The foliage of the pines light up, as well as the rocky walls that are tinged with pink and gray, everything is warmed by the sun, the light and the warmth of dawn.

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Kyrgyzstan is located in the heart of the Asian continent.

It is a country that we hear very little about in the West, due to its geographical distance, but also for its isolation from the main tourist flows.

We as Trip In Your Shoes wanted to explore it for this very reason, looking for a primordial beauty that is difficult to see today, in a globalized society made of noise and crowd.

Kyrgyzstan is along the route of what was once the ancient Silk Road, which linked east to west since Roman times.

An area equal to the one of Italy is now inhabited by only about six million people, making the Kyrgyz territory largely untouched.

transported us along rough and often difficult roads. 1500km of adrenaline.

After landing in Bishkek, capital city and cultural center of the nation, we embarked on our first expedition, which took us through a remote area on the border with Xinjiang, an autonomous region of China. Our first goal was Son-Kul Lake, a lake located at 3000 meters above sea level. There, we slept in a yurt, a typical construction used by the nomadic populations of the Central Asian highlands. The various parts of this structure are completely sustainable, being made of buffalo skins, rather than plastic.

On its territory you can find mountains that exceed 5000 meters in altitude, some of which still unnamed, animals in danger of extinction, almost unexplored valleys, steppes and glaciers, shepherds' camps and grassy hills. We spent seventeen days travelling the country, nestled between the Tien Shan mountain range (on the border with China) and the almost alpine landscapes on the border with Kazakhstan. Telling such a wild territory through our photographs was an honor and a fortune, which we will keep inside our heart for a long time.

There is certainly no shortage of high mountain lakes in this region. One of the most fascinating is Kel Suu Lake, at 3500 meters above sea level. The rocky mountains plunge into the water mirror from all sides, making the landscape unique. With our drone we tried to capture the shy light of that morning, after spending the night in a tent in a rather cold climate. The impression you get when observing the place from above is that you are in front of a fjord.

The almost total absence of human

But let’s start from the beginning.

The expedition included two different tours within the country, accompanied by two local guides: Timur, of Kyrgyz ethnicity, and Fara, of Uyghur ethnicity. A Toyota Land Cruiser

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presence guarantees the settlement of a rather rare fauna. In fact, we spotted some griffon vulture nests, a bird of prey capable of reaching a wingspan of more than two and a half meters.

But they weren't the only animals we observed along our journey. At 4200 meters above sea level, a few days later, we were able to spot some Marco Polo sheeps, particular ungulates that populate this stretch of the ancient caravan routes traveled by the Venetian merchant. There are a few thousand of them in the world and they represent delicious prey for the scarce snow leopards. Another time, we were instead delighted by the passage of a herd of yaks, wisely managed by a shepherd on horseback. These animals, also typical of the Tibetan region, often have large horns and a particularly thick coat. In the diet of the local population, they are extremely important.

the Uzanggu Kuusk river, used as a natural border. These are areas of substantial geopolitical vacuum, where mountain ridges and nature still dictate the rhythms of the entire region.

Talking about mountains, there were two giants that impressed us: Dankova Peak and Karakol Peak. The first reaches an altitude of 6000 meters (5982 meters above sea level), while the second reaches 5216 meters above sea level. Both gave us some of the most exciting moments of the whole experience. For two nights we spent the night between three thousand and four thousand meters above sea level, keeping the mountains as a constant background. As the sun set, we decided to light a fire to warm ourselves, at the foot of the glaciers. There were four of us. Four people on the bare surface of the earth. These were magical moments, full of life and rediscovered simplicity.

The valleys in which these meetings took place are cloaked in an atmosphere of continuous discovery and inviolability, the border areas between Kyrgyzstan and China still maintain references to the Soviet Union, starting with the checkpoints that signal the border. We had to overcome some of them, but another time we passed the border by simply crossing a precarious wooden bridge, which crosses

As the sun set, we decided to light a fire to warm ourselves, at the foot of the glaciers.

There were four of us. Four people on the bare surface of the earth. These were magical moments, full of life and rediscovered simplicity.

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Then we entered the province of Issyk-kul, one of the most important in terms of landscape. In the Karakol Valley, which is home to the homonymous mountain, we had the opportunity to experience the incredible tourist potential that the entire area could have for trekking enthusiasts. Rivers, snow, ridges and rocky mountains paint picture scenes with constancy, filling your eyes with beauty. We were also surprised by some snowfalls which added further poetry to the moment.

locate on the map by international tourist agencies. We believe that Kyrgyzstan has a lot to offer, but we are also jealous of what we were able to enjoy in the conditions of absolute authenticity of May 2021.The hope is that Bishkek will be able to undertake a path of tourism development that manages to preserve the wonders located in this Central Asian setting. It is not easy to ensure sustainable growth capable of embracing the general public where entire valleys today register the visit of dozens of people over a whole year.

In contrast to these natural environments, we then moved into a territory with Martian features, with the red earth excavated by rains and winds.

The so-called Forgotten Rivers fill the numerous rocky canyons every time bad weather discharges large quantities of water. This scenario reminded us of the Landmannalaugar area in Iceland, which we had the opportunity to tell you about on these same pages.

What we have been able to see, however, cannot leave us indifferent: this slice of the world has touched something inside us for the wild authenticity it has been able to give us.

For 2022 we will try to create a path in collaboration with local tour operators, in order to be able to accompany other people who want to explore a corner of this paradise on earth. In the meantime, through images and words, we hope to be able to convey what we have experienced in these seventeen days of adventure.

The second part of our Kyrgyz stay was punctuated by a series of short hikes on the northern side of the country, along the border with Kazakhstan. There the profiles of the landscape soften, with green meadows with spring connotations that recall our Alps. In short, the variety of landscapes that can be appreciated at these latitudes is astounding, especially if you think of a country that is difficult to

What we have been able to see, however, cannot leave us indifferent: this slice of the world has touched something inside us for the wild authenticity it has been able to give us.

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BY DENIS PICCOLO

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Escaping from the everyday routine by discovering the trails near home has become a consolidated practice for all those who wish to live more in contact with nature. Push ourselves into extreme adventures is just one of the many ways to discover alpine environments that can instead be explored and fully experienced even without giving up small comforts.

Just take a guy with a few days off from work that will allow him to disconnect from the daily frenzy, a tent that will help him to live in contact with nature in a self-sufficient way, a mountain bike and a great desire to explore and you will have the perfect ingredients for every outdoor adventure.

Park hosts trails suitable for everyone, from adventurous climbs through alpine landscapes, mountain pastures and mule tracks, to lowland roads, which allow you to explore the area slowly, appreciating the beauty of the landscape and stopping in the picturesque localities of the region. The Park is a protected natural area that occupies 9154 hectares of territory and extends around the Monviso between the Po Valley and the Varaita Valley. At its foot, precisely in Pian del Re, there is the source of river Po, the longest watercourse in Italy, while at the top stands Monviso, which with its 3841m is the highest mountain in the Cottian Alps and of the homonymous mountain group. Since May 29th, 2013, the Park has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a cross-border biosphere reserve.

Our adventure has as its central focus and reference point the majestic peak of Monviso which, thanks to its prominence (tenth of the entire Alpine arc and twenty-third in all of Europe), is the most visible mountain from the western Po Valley due to its height, it is in fact more than 500 meters higher than the surrounding peaks. The “Stone King”, with its perfect pyramid shape, offers an extraordinary world of discovery and adventure for mountain bikes, fat bikes or e-bikes. In fact, the Monviso

Our adventure starts in Crissolo, the highest town in the Po Valley and the largest tourist center in the area. Going up the small Provincial Road 234 towards east you will reach the first plateau, Pian Melzé but better known as Pian della Regina which offers a splendid view of the Monviso chain and the Po river.

Here there is a dedicated area for cyclists ideal for washing bikes, repairing, inflating wheels and shock absorbers. These are minimum services now indispensable for those who decide

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to cover the important cycling crossing that starts from the source and arrives at the mouth of Po River, called Ciclovia del Po. But there are about 125 itineraries that can be traveled for a total of 3000km that wind both on paved and dirt roads. In particular, on the Italian side there are 36 trails, including 21 for mountain bikes, all perfectly equipped.

When the sun begins to set, we return to our car, the true base camp of this adventure on two wheels. Sleeping under the stars in contact with nature is the perfect ending of this day. After the fatigue accumulated on the bike, the Thule Tepui Foothill tent gives you that comfort that allows you to enjoy an adventure at its best without giving up small comforts.

We spent the day riding our bike, away from paved roads, on both uphill and downhill trails, discovering all that the Monviso Valley has to offer. We alternate well-pedaled sections with more challenging ramps and fun technical trails. The lower valley features both bicycle lanes and cycling routes on roads with little traffic, mainly unpaved, the middle valley offers trails of medium difficulty with slightly accentuated gradients and at altitudes that make them practicable almost all year round, while the high valley becomes the protagonist of routes for all those who choose to retrace the legendary climbs of the Giro d'Italia and other important competitions. As you go up and the difference in height increases, the slopes also grow up to ramps of 10%, opening onto ever wider and more majestic panoramas of rare beauty.

Thule Tepui Foothill is a spacious rooftop tent, designed by the Swedish brand Thule, easy to be mounted on either side of your vehicle and removed for storage in the off-season. The telescopic internal frame poles allow for easy, one-person setup and breakdown, but can also accommodated two adults. When not in use, it folds up compactly thanks its low-profile, symmetrical design optimizing valuable space that can be used to store the bike. The newly-designed base reduces tent weight while delivering improved strength and stability. It also features a wide entry, oversized panoramic rear window and dual skylights for maximum airflow and enhanced stargazing.

Is there a hotel with more stars than the ones you can observe silently away from everyone else?

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SALEWA OUTLET ENNA STILE LIBERO BOULDER & CO SALEWA OUTLET PALMANOVA PEAK LAND ALAGNA OUTDOOR BORDINO FRANCO MOUNTAIN HOME SPORTLER ALBIGNASEGO ARCO SPORT SPORTRAGE C.ELLE SPORT SPORT HUB ALMENNO ACTIVITY PEOPLE ALPSTATION ANDALO FOTO SPORT BANAL ALPSTATION AOSTA MEINARDI SPORT ROUTE RAMEY 33 - THE SHOP SALEWA AOSTA GAL SPORT JOE SPORT EVIVA SPORT LARINO ALBINO ALPSTATION ARCO ARCO CLIMBING ART ROCK CLIMBING VILLAGE G ARCO KARPOS STORE ARCO LA SPORTIVA ARCO RED POINT 1 RED POINT 2 ROCK & ICE ARCO SALEWA ARCO VERTICAL WORLD SPORT GOBBI SPORT MABB.90 ARCO VERTICAL SPORT ARCO THE NORTH FACE ARESE ALPSTATION AREZZO VIAGGIANDO BALLONI SPORT CLIMBAP MASTER SPORT PESAVENTO MOUNTAIN STORE SPORTLAND ASOLA RRTREK GRAN SASSO MATIS SPORT ALPSTATION LAVAREDO DEGNI SPORT BSHOP AVIGLIANA TREKKING SPORT FINISH LINE SALEWA OUTLET MANTOVA AFFARI & SPORT BALLABIO TONINO SPORT CARAVELLA SCOUT LA SORGENTE MAROCCO SPORT ALPSTATION BASSANO DF BELLINZAGO MAZZARONA SPORT ROBI SPORT SU E GIU' SPORT CAI BERGAMO DIEMME SPORT SPORTLAND ANTEGNATE DF SPORT SPECIALIST BEVERA FRANCO SPORT IL GALLO NUOVI ORIZZONTI BOLOGNA PATAGONIA BOLOGNA THE NORTH FACE BOLOGNA VILLA 1928 CMP BOLZANO MONTURA BOLZANO MOUNTAINSPIRIT SALEWA WORLD BOLZANO SPORTLER BOLZANO THE NORTH FACE BOLZANO CAVALLO CENTRO SPORT MASSI SPORT GULLIVER BORGO SAN LORENZO TEMPO LIBERO CRAZY STORE BORMIO SKI TRAB MOUNTAIN & RUNNING PATAGONIA BORMIO BLOCCO MENTALE GIALDINI MAD CLIMBERS ROMEO SPORT ROSSIGNOL BRESCIA SPORTLAND BRESCIA KLEON SPORT SPORTLER BRESSANONE BERTHOD SPORT SALEWA CERVINIA UAINOT MOUNTAIN SHOP ALPSTATION BRUNICO OUTFIT SPORT MODE PATAGONIA BRUNICO SPORT MODE SCHOENHUBER SPORTLER ALPIN BRUNICO SPORTLER BRUNICO THOMASER TRAIL MARKET STILE ALPINO SPORTLER CALALZO VERTICAL SPORT SARCHE NENCINI SPORT PROROCK MOUNTAIN STORE MOUNTAIN SHOP TUBRIS SPORT TUBRIS AMPLATZ SPORT SPORT AMPLATZ PUNTO RUNNING RADAELLI SPORT BIG WALL NUOVI ORIZZONTI CARPI THE NORTH FACE CARUGATE UNDER ARMOUR CAROSELLO CAMPO BASE BERGAMO MANCINI SPORTLAND CASTEL GOFFREDO ALPSTATION BISMANTOVA CRAZY STORE CASTIONE OLGA SPORT LA SPORTIVA STORE CAVALESE UN SESTO ACCA - 1/6H MAXI SPORT CERNUSCO MAXI SPORT MERATE PASSSPORT CESIOMAGGIORE DELFINO SPORT MARISPORT X-TREME ZECCHIN SPORT SPORTLAND CHIARI L'ARTE DI SALIRE IN ALTO ASPORT’S MOUNTAIN CHIES MAIUK SPORT SALEWA SONDRIO CPR FREE SPORT MOLINARI SPORT ALPSTATION CLES SALEWA CLES SPORT EVOLUTION CASEROTTI SPORT BETTINESCHI SPORT SPORT PESCOSTA SPORT POSCH PRANTNER MAURIZIO SPORT ASPORT’S CORDENONS VISONÀ SPORT SPORTMARKET DUE & DUE CORTINA LA COOPERATIVA DI CORTIN

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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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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

502.

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531.

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541.

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560.

561.

562.

563.

564.

565.

566.

567.

568.

569.

570.

571.

572.

573.

574.

575.

576.

577.

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

159

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.

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811.

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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

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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

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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

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It is not easy to write something at 7:15 am on an August day. It is not easy to find something new, something interesting, something inspiring.

It's paradoxical, but to inspire you have to be inspired. For this reason I searched for the term on Google “a state of enthusiasm, a particular form of excitement of the mind, of the imagination or of the feeling, which pushes an individual to give life to a masterpiece”.

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In many cultures it is believed that inspiration is the action of a supernatural spirit in men that manifests itself through visions or revelations.

The Greek root of the term means "to breathe within". So let breathe what’s within you. Search, explore, discover.

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