The Pill Outdoor Journal 63 ENG

Kristin Harila

UTMB 2023

Dani Arnold

Climbing 14 eight-thousanders in 3 months and 1 day: it's a record. The Norwegian mountaineer talks about what pushed her towards this challenge and her vision of mountaineering.

There are moments that you have waited for so long that when they happen they don't seem real. Finally, in Chamonix, the American affair has been closed.

The man of records went to find the unknown mountain par excellence to rediscover the taste for adventure: this is his expedition in Kazakhstan.

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BY DAVIDE FIORASO

Reinhold Messner will not be listed in the 2024 Guinness Book as the first man to climb all 14 eight-thousanders without supplemental oxygen. German journalist Eberhard Jurgalski raised the case, claiming that on April 24th 1985 Messner and Kammerlander did not reach the summit of Annapurna, but stopped a few meters before.

Now, leaving aside the fact that Messner provokes in me the same level of affection and empathy as Jannik Sinner, it is almost inevitable to join the ranks of those who, in recent days,

have taken the trouble to defend the "non-sportsmanship" of mountaineering, which has nothing to do with the Guinness World Records. Completely different philosophies that can coincide only in very rare cases.

Pietro Lacasella once again gave a vision of the concept: “I’m happy that Messner's feat has left the Guinness World Records list. I am happy that Jerzy Kukuczka, Krzysztof Wielicki, Erhard Loretan, Sergio Martini and several others have been removed from the same list. I would be even more enthusiastic if the entire mountaineering block was excluded from the Guinness Book.”

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Pietro writes all this with a taste for provocation, without pointing the finger at the logic of Guinness, an element of social attraction capable of clearly defining dynamics that are often difficult to circumvent. But if the record attracts, at the same time it can distract. Sometimes numbers and data, if not contextualized, risk reducing the value of an experience, depriving it of formidable aspects that can make it great. So a missed summit by just a few meters risks making the feat overshadow. Although traditional mountaineering has given itself rules (as Bonatti

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recounted in "The Limit of Messner" which appeared in Repubblica in 1986), the logic of the record rests on a much more solid structure made up of scientific approaches. And this is why mountaineering should distance itself from it. Or rather, it should learn to read those numbers within a plural context, where the number is only a partial component.

Jurgalski, increasingly alone in his critical stronghold, admits good faith on his part: it would have been a simple error of evaluation that "deceived" the mountaineers, convinced

they had reached the highest point.

At those heights, fortunately, there are no summit crosses indicating the exact point, therefore, it makes very little sense to say that the summit is five or ten meters away. This is not a sport, but a way of living, of getting to know each others, of exploring ourselves deeply. And since mountaineering is not a sport, there should be no competitions or winners.

cious work of Elizabeth Hawley, mother of the Himalayan Database, risks being overshadowed. Let's not confuse the value of the enormous mass of data he collected with this personal obstinacy. Those who are successfully accustomed to conducting their investigations meticulously in detail, even with the help of the most modern techniques, run the risk of losing the general vision of things.

Despite this kind of provocative conclusions, the forty-year research work of the reporter, heir to the pre-

And this is really a shame.

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MY PE RSONAL BEST IS NOT A N U MBE R BY ASICS On October 10th, World Mental Health Day, ASICS launched a campaign to promote "personal best" as an emotion and not as a number: living in the moment and appreciating the feelings. This concept is redefined also to support the difficulties that an athlete faces every day. To do this, in collaboration with Progetto Itaca for mental health care, the brand presented eight shots of very different people, who fully experience their moment of "personal best”.

C O L M A R B LO W S O U T 10 0 C A N D L E S It was 1923 when the newly married Colombo couple opened a small hat manufacturing workshop in Monza. The name, shaped on the initials of the founder Colombo Mario, is today known throughout the world for being one of the most loved Made in Italy brands. For the centenary, the artistic direction of a capsule collection was entrusted to Joshua Vides who, revisiting the most iconic garments of the brand, pays homage to the history of Colmar with its unmistakable colours: red, white and blue.

A G R E AT S U C C E S S FO R VA L L E O R C O C L I M B I N G F E S T I VA L 2 0 2 3 The fourth edition of the climbing festival took place in the Gran Paradiso National Park from September 28th to October 1st and was a huge success.

Born with the aim of bringing together mountain and outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy the local natural beauty, Valle Orco Climbing Festival has always been able to create captivating events and intriguing workshops, which this year amazed more than 4500 people. There is already great excitement for the next, highly confirmed, edition.

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50 anni di sviluppo in poche righe:

In Fjällräven lo sviluppo non si ferma mai. Sono trascorsi cinque decenni da quando, nel 1968, il tessuto G-1000 fu utilizzato per la prima volta dal nostro fondatore Åke Nordin. Da allora, lo abbiamo impiegato in tutto: pantaloni, giacche, zaini. È stato messo alla prova da appassionati di attività all’aria aperta di tutto il mondo, dimostrando di essere uno dei tessuti outdoor più affidabili in circolazione. Oggi è disponibile in un’ampia gamma di versioni funzionali, adatte a diversi climi, attività ed esigenze: G-1000 Stretch, G-1000 Air, G-1000 Lite e G-1000 HeavyDuty, per citarne alcuni. Abbiamo anche sostituito il misto di poliestere e cotone con un

misto di poliestere riciclato e cotone biologico. Inizialmente è stata una sfida, perché i materiali riciclati non erano all’altezza degli elevati standard di durata per cui G-1000 è diventato famoso. Ma abbiamo continuato a lavorare e oggi tutti i nostri tessuti G-1000 sono prodotti con poliestere riciclato e cotone organico. Le uniche eccezioni sono le versioni elasticizzate, in cui dobbiamo includere il 13% di poliestere vergine per garantire maggiore durata. (Fortunatamente, le versioni stretch contano meno dell’1% di tutto il G-1000). Questo passo avanti è sicuramente positivo per l’ambiente poiché il 30% della nostra produzione utilizza il G-1000, il

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SALOMON WINTER SPORTS PUBLISHES THE BALANCE SHEETS OF ITS LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT In an effort to create a reference system for the snow sports industry that leans towards more sustainable product design, Salomon has made public its research into innovation and measurement of its LCA. The study, which began in 2019, allows the company's various teams to identify the environmental impact of each phase of the process and thus guide the company's climate strategy. Three years ago Salomon was the first winter sports company to sign up to the Science Based Target (SBT) and, to date, the only one to meet this standard.

MILLET: SUSTAINABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY BEHIND THE NEW INTENSE SHOE Developed at the Advanced Shoe Factory 4.0, the first automated sports footwear factory in France, Millet's new trail running shoe will allow production to be localized in neighbouring territories and significantly limit transport.

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SEA TO SUMMIT ANNOUNCES I T S PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H D O W N L I T E Sea to Summit, appreciated outdoor and travel gear brand, announced the new partnership with Downlite, leader in the processing of responsibly sourced down and feathers, the first company to have received the RDS Scope (Responsible Down Standards) certificate, as well as partner of the bluesign system and the American Feather & Down Council. Phil Bailey, Head of Supply Chain at Sea to Summit, said: “This partnership aligns perfectly with our commitment and ensures our customers can trust the ethical production of our products.”

SKI INDUSTRY CLIMATE SUMMIT 2023: A PROMISING RESULT FOR THE CLIMATE The recent Ski Industry Climate Summit in Salzburg, organized by Atomic, marked a significant milestone in the ski industry's commitment to addressing climate challenges.

The event encouraged meaningful interaction between industry representatives, fostering dialogue and cooperation between stakeholders: ski and snowboard brands such as Rossignol, Head, Salomon, Völkl, Burton, Niedecker, retailers such as Decathlon, Sport Conrad , Bründl and organizations such as the European Outdoor Group, the Snowsports Industry Association and Protect Our Winters.

VA U D E R E L E A S E S T H E N E W S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T Energy system transformation, e-mobility, reduction of CO2 emissions, PFAS ban, textile recycling, work-life balance.

These are the claims of the new Sustainability Report which illustrates Vaude's progress in the fight against climate change. From 2021 to 2022 the brand managed to reduce its emissions by 5%, both at its headquarters and throughout its supply chain, while achieving a 13% increase in revenue.

The success is mainly attributed to greater energy efficiency and the use of low-emission sources in the production of materials.

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Parvat “Eco not Ego” made in Arco Parvat is a new generation brand that was born in the climbing hill: Arco.

We interviewed the two founders, Samuel Betta and Mattia Gardella, to find out what we will define as a mission, oriented towards a complete use of the main material of this sport: the rope.

May 2022, Arco (TN) historic centre.

The appointment is at the ex Carmellini car park and together we cross the main street of the Trentino town to reach the square. They proudly show me the window that a store has decided to dedicate to them, with their products and a poster, of which I recognize the main character. Spring is now forwarded and the heat is starting to push.

We sit in the square. “Beer?”

Samuel and Mattia, tell me something about you. We were born in Arco, grew up among these walls that we have always loved and started to appreciate a few years ago, when the passion for climbing broke out. Living here is a privilege: we are in the Mecca of climbing and we love this atmosphere. Personally, I love all disciplines, but bouldering is my favourite. Samuel is more a long routes type of guy.

What does climbing mean to you?

Climbing is a complete activity, I would define it as an ongoing process, always. Everyone has their own style, their own approach, but the essence

remains a competition with yourself, a challenge that allows you to reflect on yourself even outside the crag. Climbing combines meditation and for this reason we have chosen a name for our brand that recalled this aspect. The practice of meditation was born in ancient times in Punjab, India, and using the Hindi word for "mountain" seemed to us the right solution to convey our concept of climbing.

How was Parvat born? Two years ago we wondered why there wasn't yet a brand dedicated to this sector based right here. And so from a small chat we began to conceive something more serious, but with a very specific goal.

Every month at least 30 strings are discarded in Arco alone and our main suppliers find it difficult to dispose of these materials. We have gathered some information about this and old strings constitute waste from incineration or landfill and in both cases a fee is required for disposal. Our mission is to skip these steps, treating the old rope not as waste but as a resource.

What we do is recovering these ropes, wash them and give them a new life through accessories such as chalk bags, bands and belts. We have many

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projects in the pipeline and we are in an experimentation phase, we sew and modify every day.

You are at the very beginning, but the first satisfactions are starting to arrive… We are very cautious, but the enthusiasm that distinguishes us has led us to meet many people, including a couple of athletes we sponsor. We are present with our products in some climbing gyms, where we go to present the project and raise awareness about the collection of used ropes. Last year Parvat, only five months after its launch, was selected by the Province of Trento as a finalist among the top 60 Italian companies working in upcycling. It was a great honor for us to be present at the awards evening and tell about our startup.

How about at the distribution level? We are starting to be distributed in the most important stores in the sector, but our production is still dependent on the raw material, which makes our business sustainable.It is no coincidence that we have chosen our claim "Eco not Ego" which in its simplicity clearly and precisely communicates our vision.

La JKT LEVITY ridefinisce il concetto di abbigliamento da montagna Fast & Light: il piumino con cappuccio e zip pesa solo 207 grammi (taglia M uomo) e 185 grammi (taglia S donna).

Il suo segreto? Ne ha 3.

Less is more.

Abbiamo ridotto al minimo il numero di cuciture. La piuma rimane al suo posto grazie a pratici inserti incollati. La giacca ha solo una tasca interna e una sul petto: l’essenziale per gli alpinisti.

Diamond Down.

Il punto forte della giacca è l’imbottitura che abbiamo scelto: Diamond Down. Le piume vengono selezionate a mano una ad una e vengono scelti solo i fiocchi più voluminosi.

Tessuto esterno.

E’ estremamente leggero e rende l’interno del capo elastico per dare il massimo comfort durante l’attività. Leggero, elastico e incredibilmente compattabile.

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BY ALESSANDRA SOLA

Crazy New Way It may seem impossible to bring together a love for sport and fashion, but Valeria Colturi, creator and designer of Crazy, has been doing it brilliantly for over 30 years.

The 2023 season was full of surprises, one above all gave Crazy a new light: an eclectic rebranding. We had a chat with Valeria, to ask her about the background and the idea behind this evolution. She confirmed to us that she’s at the head of the creative direction, which will aim to keep high attention on the need to stand out for those who choose Crazy. In fact, the restyling of the logo was designed to best reflect the Crazy soul. Colors and patterns - purple and zebra - which certainly know how to stand out and bring out the eclectic character of the brand. In this regard, we asked her how the restyling of the logo came about and how it was developed. “We simplified the logo by focusing on the Crazy name, rather than an icon. Crazy is who we are and we put it on the stage! We also wanted to make the logo more unique and "crazy", with the purple color and zebra pattern. These are elements that are part of us and of our style, something different in the outdoor world but with a decidedly fashionable touch.”

It’s no secret that Crazy is aimed at a predominantly female audience (60% of their collections are for women, 40% for men). This dynamic had a natural flow deriving from a product that is designed from a feminine perspective, and not simply adapted from the men's collection, as often happens in other outdoor brands. A positioning that shows a clear message to women who choose Crazy: you are there and Crazy knows it! We asked Valeria how

are crazy’s women. “The Crazy woman is a woman who in the mountains does not accept the compromises imposed by an industry in which women seem to be in the background. She wants products designed for her, with the right fabrics, a fit that enhances her and technical features that respect the unique needs of women compared to men. She is also a woman who doesn't want a standardized style, but she dares and does it with style!”

Comfort, however, remains in first place, but it is a step of the podium that it shares equally with style. The attention to fabrics and technical features suitable for the female body are the must of the collections that characterize Crazy. When we asked Valeria what her favorite item from this collection was, she couldn't answer: “It’s impossible to answer! It's like asking who your favorite child is. I'm proud of the new winter collection, I worked a lot on new patterned colours. If I had to say the product I use the most I would say the Levity jacket, which apart from being the lightest jacket in the world, it is a technical product with extraordinary versatility! Warm, elastic, comfortable

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and light: it has research and development behind it that would be unimaginable to non-experts, it is truly a unique product.”

In the end, over the years we have learned to appreciate the brand because, in its ability to distinguish itself, it has always maintained a very high level regarding the technicality of the products, both for the women's and men's collections. Being a precursor of Fast&Light made in Italy, we are sure that we can only expect from the new garments an increasingly accurate search for high performing and innovative fabrics. It is no coincidence that the new payoff reads "Performance mountainwear from the Italian Alps". Crazy's magic lies in creating an image that is very distant from the one associated with Valtellina, but at the same time knows very well how to enhance it. Its colours, the unique shapes of the Alps and the precise lines have been, ever since a very young Valeria sewed ski suits for her and her teammates with scraps of technical materials, distinctive features of a brand that has always known how to amaze.

VOGLIA DI UNA NUOVA AVVENTURA? SCOPRI I PERCORSI INTORNO A TE, OVUNQUE TU SIA.

TROVA LA TUA AVVENTURA Grazie alle nuovi funzioni Esplora di komoot puoi trovare percorsi per bici con partenza da una posizione specifica e visualizzare sulla mappa le informazioni su ogni itinerario. E con i nuovi filtri per dislivello, durata, distanza e molti altri parametri puoi affinare ulteriormente la ricerca e trovare l’avventura su misura per te.

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THE PILL INTERVIEW

BY E VA TO S C H I

Happy Birthday Colmar 100 years of history to read, just as many more to write about All Made in Italy stories, in some way, are similar. The Italian "root" smells of extraordinary enterprises that are often little known, true family sagas that span decades of social and cultural history, riding the changes and sometimes making their own.

Stories of families, work, intuitions, plots of skilled hands that assemble, experiment, challenge conventions.

Stories of shops that become brands and contribute to shaping Italian identity towards excellence made of technical innovation, stylistic and functional aesthetics. Stories of people, imagination and vision. Stories like the one of Colmar.

About that day in Monza in 1923 It all began a century ago in Monza. There, on October 31st, the newlyweds Mario and Irma Colombo officially opened the Mario Colombo & C. factory, which soon evolved from a small hat workshop into something revolutionary thanks to the idea of using defective wool felt cones to create gaiters. The gaiters were the first important product created by Colmar, which in the meantime adopted the name that would accompany it into the next century of history. The incipit takes place in a not too happy historical scenario, but despite everything Colmar manages to prosper and becomes to all intents and purposes a clothing company, reconverting production towards work overalls which, as we will soon discover, fit well also to the pioneers

of skiing. The first to meet the brand is Austrian naturalized Italian Leo Gasperl, speed skiing champion and small celebrity, who ends up becoming the unofficial first testimonial of the brand. Thirring was designed specifically for him, the cape cape which, when inflated, resembles a bat's wing.

After that flying in mid-air, other sudden storms, with the premature death of Mario and the post-war difficulties. The victory of a contract for the production of Saharan jackets for the French Foreign Legion was followed by the first threads of what would be an almost 50-year relation-

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ship with FISI and its champions, one above all Zeno Colò. The first Italian to win the downhill World Championships and the first giant slalom world champion, Colò marked the fate of the brand when his performance needs met the genius of Irma, who pulled the famous “guaina Colò" from her hat, the entrance ticket to the world of skiing. Thanks to Giancarlo and Angelo, the distribution of foreign brands such as Mizuno, Elan, adidas and Lacoste, to name a few, and the first exports began. Then came the skiing boom and Italy became one of the best in the world. The myth of the Blue Ava-

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lanche is born and Colmar follows the national team to numerous podiums including the Olympic one.

The years of advertising followed with futuristic campaigns that saw skiers on pyramids and skyscrapers broadcast on television. These are the years of Alberto Tomba, international superstar since 1986, of Debora Compagnoni and her exceptional sixteen podiums in the World Cup. Bormio and Tecnologie multilayer jackets appear, and the logo changes, with the Colmar writing preceded by a stylized snowflake. At the end of the eighties the relationship with FISI also ended (although not the one

with the world of racing), while the first of a long series of single-brand stores opened.

The next leap is in 2009 with the Originals line, in which technical clothing is now part of everyday life, marking the return of the now iconic red and blue stamp discontinued in 1985, but also the re-edition of iconic garments with extraordinary success. The exploration with technical fabrics continues, but the encounter with the world of fashion also takes place. Important collaborations are born such as the one with Directa Plus, producer of Graphene, and the collection in partnership

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with Shayne Oliver, creative director of Hood by Air, the first project to combine music, streetwear and luxury.

The fourth generation enters the scene with Stefano, Roberta and Riccardo, and the values grow. The issue of sustainability is addressed through very careful governance and the result is millimetric knowledge of all production dynamics, from those of fabrics to those of garments.

The design, still entirely made in Monza, continues to reflect the history and culture of the company. Exactly like a century ago, in the times of Mario and Irma.

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Moonlines: lines hunters The movie “Moonlines” is about lines. Those to be drawn on the powdery and still intact snow while, with skis on, you chase the perfect curve of the mountains.

But also those stretched out into the void, to be tackled barefoot, testing even the most trained sense of balance. The freeride lines and the highline lines.

These are the two passions that unite the protagonists of the short movie produced, written and directed by Coline Ballet-Baz, with the support of Arc'teryx which also supports her in her life as a skier. In addition to Coline herself, the movie features Silvia Moser, Chloë Roux-Mollard and Aurelia Lanoe. Four exceptional skiers who for a few days shared an original journey in the mountains of Queyras, a French region on the border with Piedmont. With skis and skins on their feet, the four women, after some initial difficulties in finding suitable snow conditions, first reached the remote hut among the peaks which was their base for the entire duration of the adventure and then dedicated themselves to the two extreme sports that pushed them towards this brief retreat in the High Alps.

Coline Ballet-Baz tells us: «The idea behind the movie was to spend a few nice days in the mountains mixing freeriding and highlining, which I personally started practicing a couple of years ago than-

ks to Chloë. In short, spending moments of joy at high altitude with a nice group, without great demands. Initially the plan was to return to the remote Alpine cabin where we filmed “Recipe”» the documentary about women's freeskiing, again by Ballet-Baz, filmed in winter 2021-22. «The spot I had in mind was perfect for both freeriding and highlining, and this was basically the reason why I thought about combining the two disciplines. A week before departure, however, there was absolutely no snow and the weather forecast was terrible. To have good conditions, therefore, we en-

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ded up in Queyras: here we knew that we would not have any problems on the skiing side, but we didn't know if we would have a suitable spot for highlining.

We eventually found one near the cabin, although not extraordinary. We were lucky, all things considered.»

As a companion for this adventure, Coline immediately thought of Chloë, who had already taken part in “Recipe". «Chloë is a highline specialist: without her I wouldn't even have thought of putting this discipline into the movie» says Coline. Searching among their group of mutual acquaintances

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for women who were both expert skiers and highliners, the creation of the rest of the team came quite naturally. «I’ve met Coline this year at Arc’teryx Freeride in Austria» tells Silvia Moser, Italian star of freeriding. «She immediately told me about her idea: skiing together with friends and also doing a bit of highlining.

I didn't hesitate even for a second, I immediately said yes!» Moser will present the short movie at the Arc'teryx Women in Adventure Session, at the Kendal Mountain Festival, on November 18th.

The skiers all already knew each other for various reasons «but Coline was the definitive glue that created this fantastic group» says Silvia. The friend-

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ship and the complicity between the protagonists clearly shines through in the movie. It's no secret that in the mountains, but not only, it's the people you share an experience with who really make the difference, who create the right mood. Silvia, Coline, Chloë and Aurelia dance, laugh, toast, rejoice, cheer for each other.

In short, they have fun. They have a lot of fun.«It was just like that» Silvia confirms. «Every time we see each other it's always fun, because we are all linked by a great passion for mountains and adventures. This time we experienced some incredible days together.

During filming it was like being with family, it was all an incredible, magical flow. I returned from that trip really

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happy: I didn't know what would come out of the video, but the experience we had together was already a wonderful gift.»

Silvia, Coline, Chloë and Aurelia in the short film not only have fun in moments of relaxation within the four walls of the cabin but above all outside, in the snow, suspended in the void of the mountains. «I’ve never been to Queyras, but it has been a great surprise» says Silvia. «It's a skiable area, not too extreme to reach, but we were lucky: no one had skied there yet and so we found ourselves in this enormous trackless space, with snow truly above all expectations. However, we had to be careful, because the level

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was not very high and there were still some rocks underneath. For example, when entering a line I’ve hit a stone which made me fall and I’ve lost my ski, which luckily remained nearby. Then I managed to finish skiing my line, which was truly amazing. Overall, everything went well.»

The descents in the long, narrow gullies, where the four freeriders whiz by, raising clouds of dust, are daring, creative and joyful. The concentration that such a descent requires, but also the contagious enthusiasm that it generates, emerge as they are even when the four athletes stretch the highline between two trees and have fun crossing it, continuing until

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the sunset turns the snow-covered mountains pink and an immense full moon lights up the night. «In my opinion, skiing and highlining have a mental aspect in common» says Silvia. «In both cases you need to be very concentrated, feel your body and be connected, even through breathing, with the present moment, with the precise moment you are in. Skiing is definitely my comfort zone, I feel more confident.

In highlining however, despite having done it for a long time, there is always a minimum of struggle in managing to get beyond the line. But both things convey very similar feelings.»

Coline Ballet-Baz thinks the same: «As Silvia says, the main point in com-

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mon between the two sports is the mental challenge, the way you need to stay focused. But there are many similarities: both are beautiful, in my opinion, and are practiced in the mountains.

Ultimately, I am very satisfied with the result of the movie: considering the starting conditions and the fact that we had to change plans several times, it was a success. Even from a human point of view, this trip was a beautiful experience, an aspect that is very important to me.» Whether it is the sinuous line traced with skis or the one stretched into the void between the peaks, in short, the conclusion for the four "line hunters" is always the same: looking back, only joy remains.

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BY MARIA LAURENZI

Fall hiking between foliage and the first cold weather A look at Columbia's new Fall Hike collection It’s that time of year which, for a series of reasons, pushes many of us to travel with our gaze upwards and to desire the mountains.

The summer euphoria gradually fades away and the atmosphere shifts towards a kind of torpor that calls us to nature. The light changes, the colors change, the air is emptied of humidity and becomes fresh. It's the ideal time to take a walk on the foliage or to chase the sun on rocky trails. But it is also the time of unpredictable winds, sudden rains and colds that haunt you because, needless to say, you wanted to look cool but you left the right clothing at home together with the undershirt, ignoring your mother's recommendations. «Prudentia est auriga virtutum» said the medievals, and we can only agree and suggest to everyone, explorers, amateurs and expert mountaineers, to always pack the right protection from cold and bad weather, before putting on their boots and hitting the trail.

To allow you to enjoy the wonders of this fall without worries, Columbia

presents its Fall Hike 2023 collection: fleeces, jackets, footwear, hats... An entire wardrobe of versatile garments for every scenario and weather condition.

Let's take a look.

Explorer’s Edge Jacket We already said it, there is something for everyone, explorers, amateurs and experts, whether men or women.

Explorer’s Edge offers support with wind, rain, cold. Equipped with the innovative Omni-Tech technology, a multi-layer construction that repels water and wind, guaranteeing

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waterproofness. Then, thanks to the Omni-Heat Infinity thermo-reflective system, body heat is reflected by golden dots and sent back onto the skin, giving immediate thermal pleasure without compromising breathability. Lastly, there is certainly no shortage of basic comforts. Hood, numerous pockets including one on the chest, adjustable hem and cuffs to repel the rain.

Columbia Hike Fleece If you want to do things well, it would always be advisable to combine the

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jacket with a properly anti-cold garment. Columbia Hike is a good candidate: breathable and sweat-wicking, so you're sure to stay dry even while you're moving. To clarify, it is equipped with the advanced Omni-Wick technology, which wicks moisture away from the skin and spreads it along the entire surface of the fabric, so that it evaporates more quickly.

It also has hand pockets and one on the chest protected by an extra fabric overlay.

Back Beauty Fleece Ladies, don't despair, there is a version for you too, equally breathable and anti-sweat, for daily freshness. The technology is always Omni-Wick, which allows humidity to be spread over the entire garment and dispersed in less time through evaporation. This model also has an adjustable collar, thumb loops and practical pockets, to ensure optimal comfort and fit.

Triple Canyon II Pants

Lost Lager II Beanie

Protected legs are happy legs. Columbia's Triple Canyons will satisfy you by proving versatile in every adventure. Thanks to Omni-Shield advanced water repellent technology, they repel water and dirt without sacrificing anything in elasticity. You can move freely thanks to the pre-shaped knees and the partially elastic waist. To keep the pants in place when you move, simply tighten the hooks at the bottom of the leg. And, of course, they have lots of pockets.

To end on a high note, a must have garment to protect that part of the body that is often neglected and that endures the strongest gusts of wind, only to then bring out tonsillitis and fevers that force you to stay in bed for ten days.

The Lost Lager II beanie will look after your head and ears in the mountains as well as in the city, making its own avant-garde style and eco-sustainable DNA, in only recycled Repreve fabric.

Windgates Leggins Fresh and comfortable legs, feminine legs, here are the Windgates leggings, in which the Omni-Wick technology returns and protects against humidity by promoting rapid evaporation thanks to the diffusion of sweat along the entire length of the garment. Two little extras are the hidden pocket inside the waist and the side one on the legs.

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We have reached the end. How to say goodbye? Listening to Dante, why not, he adapts well to every field of life.

«From prudence come good advice, which leads oneself and others to a good end in human affairs and operations.» Holy words. So listen to the voice of prudence, whether it's embodied in your grandmother or the shopkeeper at your favorite sports store, and go take a look through Columbia's new Fall Hike collection.

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Jack Wolfskin Texapore Ecosphere

In 2017 Jack Wolfskin launched Texapore Ecosphere, a performing, waterproof and breathable fabric, made with 100% recycled membrane, outer fabrics and lining, taking an important step forward the offering of advanced and sustainable materials in its clothing collection.

Awarded the Outdoor Industry Award and the UK Outdoor Industry Award in 2017, Texapore Ecosphere required two years of development, the time necessary for the brand and its manufacturing partners to find a solution that guaranteed performance at the highest levels.

At the beginning there were only six products in the hiking category that integrated the innovative technology while, by winter 2023, Texapore Ecosphere Pro will be used in 58 items, including accessories, footwear and clothing. In this way Jack Wolfskin expects to have recovered almost 96 tons of membrane, equivalent to 3.2 million meters. Furthermore, by this winter, the brand will also have recycled the equivalent of 63 million one-litre bottles.

Texapore Ecosphere represents a turning point as it is the first 100% recycled waterproof and breathable fabric. Its membrane is made with the

waste generated during production which is reused here in the production cycle following a zero-waste concept. The external fabric and lining are instead produced with recycled materials such as bottles.

The balance between the sustainability of fabrics and the high performing standards that the outdoor sector requires, such as waterproofness, breathability, windproof and comfort, has always been a challenge for the sportswear industry in the development of new materials. Jack Wolfskin accepted the challenge and today with Texapore Ecosphere Pro it is able to offer all adventurers top level performances. Let's take a look at some of the top products from the 2023 winter collection.

Kammweg 3L Jkt M This innovative trekking jacket combines high level features and functionality, ensuring great comfort and protection even during the longest excursions. The new Texapore Ecosphere Pro Schoeller fabric is made with partially recycled and 100% PFC-Free material and it combines proprietary membrane technology with Schoeller's high tech fabrics. The two large chest pockets are positioned to be easily accessible even when wearing a backpack.

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Highest Peak 3L Jkt & Highest Peak 3L Jkt W Ideal hiking model in multiple situations, regardless of the weather conditions. Made from Texapore Ecosphere Pro Stretch 3L fabric derived from 100% recycled materials, it is a waterproof, windproof and highly breathable jacket. The side zips can be opened ensuring a flow of fresh air during the most demanding tours.

The hood is fully adjustable. 100% PFC-Free, it is a bluesign certified product that ensures that every component of the entire production process is ecological and sustainable.

Salier 3in1 Coat W This coat with a classic and simple design is ideal for urban exploration.

100% PFC-Free and bluesign certified, thanks to its three different fit options it is a highly multifunctional garment, suitable for all weather conditions. The outer coat has a modern style and is made of breathable, waterproof and windproof Texapore Ecosphere Pro Suede 2L fabric. A removable down insulated vest offers additional warmth and protection but can also be worn separately for an even different style. The side vents can be zipped open for greater freedom of movement and immediate ventilation if needed.

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Fjällräven Polar 2024: towards the Arctic Men have conquered more or less every corner of the earth, finding a way to "domesticate" even the most extreme areas.

Yet, wild nature exerts a powerful appeal. Fatigue, hardness, temper.

Testing your limits can prove fatal, but it is also the most authentic way of being alive. There's a reason we chase challenges. There is something about the harshness that keeps us alive. The works of Jack London remind us of this, whose two greatest successes, not

surprisingly, are set in the most extreme Arctic.

Fjällräven also returns to the Arctic, with an expedition in search of what we never stop finding in the realities that test us most. The initiative is called Fjällräven Polar and it is an expedition of 20 people and 180 sled dogs across 300 kilometers of Lapland above 66°33'39" north. In short, above the Arctic Circle.

Initially it was a race, born from the meeting in 1990 between Swedish musher Kenth Fjellborg and founder of Fjällräven Åke Nordin. At the

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time, Kenth had just participated in the Iditarod, the toughest mushing competition in the world. Inspired, Åke launched Fjällräven Polar and for ten years, from 1997 to 2006, awarded a musher at each edition until 2006.

The competitive dimension of the experience had never fully embraced the founding values of the brand: to inspire and encourage people to discover outdoor life, which is why, after a break of a few years, in 2012 Fjällräven Polar returned to the scene, more revolutionary and irresistible than ever.

The new Fjällräven Polar has the same challenges, the same hardships, but no experts ready to face them. The new protagonists are ordinary people. It seems like madness, but one with revolutionary implications. Fjällräven takes us by the arm and tells us that it doesn't matter if our wilderness survi-

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val skills are almost non existent. Any of us, with the right guidance and the right equipment, can do it. It doesn't happen every day. In fact, let's face it, it almost never happens.

Imagine: it's April 2nd, 2024, and you have arrived in Lapland. Welcoming you is a team of experts from Fjällräven and 19 other people like you but completely different. You find yourself in a classroom learning about each others, gathered from every corner of the world, and taught the basics of surviving the Arctic, your home for the next five days. Six dogs are entrusted to you. They are yours to know, to understand, to care for. Everything else is up to you. Led by a group of professional mushers and accompanied by the Fjällräven team, you leave the Jukkasjärvi area to venture north.

Sevujärvi, Kattuvuoma, Råstojaure

and Pältsa, one of the largest permafrost areas in Europe, up to the edge of the Norwegian fjords in Signaldalen.

Names with a fantastic atmosphere, made of dazzling white, frozen waters, sharp cold and darkness, bottomless darkness. You sleep in the shelter of a tent or under starry skies and you take care of the camp, which you set up every evening and take down every morning, of the food that you prepare with care, of your pack that you look after with attention, and of the unexpected events of an unforgiving weather . And you love every bit of it.

If you were tempted, here are the dates to remember: 30 October - 19 November 2023. This is the window to apply for the 2024 edition of Fjällräven Polar. The methods have not changed.

Always three challenges, always launched on social media weekly, always

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focused on the candidates' personal inspirations and aspirations. A challenge to investigate the reasons that drive us to desire adventures like Fjällräven Polar. Another to expose our fears and prepare us for the challenge. One last one to test our sustainability values. A selection that does not deny the orientation of the brand.

Launched during the global launch event, the competition consists of uploading videos, images and texts to your Instagram channel, accompanying them with the tags @fjallravenofficial, #FjallravenPolar2024 and challenge number: #Challenge1, #Challenge2 or #Challenge3. The winners, selected by the team of Fjällräven Polar alumni, ambassadors and protagonists of the company, will be revealed on December 11th 2023. Next step? The Lappish Arctic.

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The happy ending story of Remoca Pad

by LaMunt Veneto, heritage, passion.

And again women, a vision, and new ideas.

When you think that an idea may be naive or too optimistic, when you believe that if it has never been done it is because it is impossible. The history of Remoca Pad, Imbotex and LaMunt in general is one of those that make you understand that when passion, culture and experience meet there are no limits.

Remoca Pad. A completely circular system made in Italy that reuses waste from the same company. How? It's very simple: from the manufacture of Pomoca sealskins, as for every category, there is some waste. These wastes are collected from the sewing process and are then defibrated to obtain fabric fibres. These fibers are put back into circulation in the creation of a down which is then used as padding in new LaMunt garments.

This is how ReMoca Pad was born, the synthetic padding from Pomoca derived from ski mountaineering leather waste. With impressive technical performance and great thermal insulation, it is a thin synthetic insulating layer made using 60% production waste from Pomoca ski mountaineering leathers and 40% post-consumer recycled polyester fibres.

As often happens with small but great revolutions, here too everything was born from an encounter: on the one hand a young and revolutionary company tailored for women, on the other a historic production company founded in the 1950s, run by two women. Imbotex was born in Cittadella (PD) producing mattress padding, including waste from the local textile industry right from the start. The female leadership of recent decades has then expanded the company strategy towards the production of textile products for body wellness entirely made in Italy. Then in 2019 Imbotex Lab was born, a part of the company completely focused on upcycling and circular economy, the perfect cradle for the birth of revolutionary projects

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such as Remoca. The processes used within the plant are mechanical, minimizing at the same time energy expenditure, waste production and water consumption.

But where does the idea of using ski mountaineering leather waste come from? Founder and Brand Manager of LaMunt, as well as vice president of the Oberalp Group, Ruth Oberrauch tells us about the intuition right inside the walls of Imbotex during a visit to the company this spring.

She tells us that every small, perhaps crazy idea, every glimmer of reuse is the excuse to collect material and look for the most varied solutions together with the producers. So, from a visit to the Pomoca parent com-

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pany, Ruth returns with a bag full of leather waste and submits it to the expert eye of the women of Imbotex. Enthusiasm, experience and teamwork then proved to be the ingredients for an ingenious new project that would bring much satisfaction to the two partners. So starting from the fall winter 23/24 collection, "Mountain Me Time" lovers can wear the result of this beautiful story in four garments with names inspired, as per rule, by women of the community: Irmi, Alberta, Sophia and Nora, respectively a reversible padded jacket, a hybrid jacket, a vest and a long-sleeved midlayer.

Irmi Reversible Insulated Jacket Key piece of the collection with Remoca padding, it is reversible and two-tone: on one side, it has quilted stitching that gives it a technical look in line with LaMunt's characteristic Ali Shape design. On the other hand, it is made of textured seersucker fabric, PFC-free, to guarantee a unique style and maximum freedom of movement. The jacket features a high-neck hood, integrated zip pockets and easily packs down to fit into backpacks of different volumes. On winter days it is ideal as an intermediate layer for ski mountaineering thanks also to the environmentally friendly DWR (Durable Water Repellent) treatment without PFC.

Alberta Hybrid Jacket A versatile garment designed as an ideal partner for autumn days in the mountains and in the woods as well as for a daily use in the city thanks to its refined design and great attention to detail. Made with Remoca Pad padding, it is a jacket with exceptional comfort also thanks to features such as the pre-shaped hood with elastic edge, pre-shaped visor and collar, an elastic band at the nape of the neck and elasticated inserts at the waist.

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New Balance Fuelcell Supercomp Trail The first thing you notice about New Balance Fuelcell Supercomp Trail, and which is somewhat their characteristic feature, is their streamlined and “lean” line. Plated shoes in recent years have seen a general increase in volumes, compensated by a progressive lightening of the materials. This trend has decreased stability and control on more technical terrain. New Balance's choice, however, was to combine updated materials and a plate with a shoe with a more traditional concept. The result is an extremely stable and versatile racing shoe, also suitable for European trails.

Fit and thickness A fit that we would define as narrow, but not therefore constricting or annoying: it is a racing shoe fit, precise, safe and firm on the foot. The tread pattern is also quite narrow and this is functional on rocky or rooty terrains, especially when going downhill, to maintain control. The weight of the shoe is reduced to 272 grams, but apart from this, it is above all the general structure of the shoe that contributes to a feeling of lightness on the foot. The stack is 36.5 millimeters at the heel and 26.5 millimeters at the forefoot, for an overall heel-toe drop of 10 millimeters. On the one hand it is a very pronounced drop, on the other it is an overall low midsole compartment, which when running translates into a feeling of contact with the ground.

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Midsole, plate and outsole

The upper is made of an airy and light fabric with a 3D structure and strengthened at the toe by an internal reinforcement, minimalist but still protective. The tongue is thin but distributes the pressure of the lacing well, made with a five-hole system that works uniformly on the instep.

For the midsole, the New Balance developers decided to use the low-density Fuelcell compound made with 3% bio materials. But the real innovation of the shoe is, of course, the carbon plate. It is a very thick and wide plate, whereas in trail running shoes much thinner plates are normally used, in

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order to better adapt to the terrain.

In reality, when running, Fuelcell Supercomp are the least rigid trail running shoes with a plate that we have tried: they are flexible, perhaps less reactive than trail shoes with a more "road" cut, but at the same time much more versatile. New Balance seems to have understood before other brands that for technical and steep terrains, a plate that is too rigid severely limits the ability to use the shoe. Plate and midsole are integrated with a structure called Energy Arc aimed at guaranteeing greater energy return during the rolling phase. The sole, on the other hand, is Vibram Megagrip Litebase in three pieces, with a multidirectional tessellation.

Running feelings Overall, the running feeling is therefore that of a well-balanced shoe, neither cushioned nor dry. While remaining a very light and fast shoe, it is perhaps also among the most democratic in the same category, which is why we see it on the feet of a relatively large audience, or in any case larger than its competitors.

However, we do not recommend it for runners with very pronounced pronation and for people need support on the arch of the foot, as the shoe is not very supportive in this area, and which in our opinion could be the real point to improve in a future update. Apart from this, we don't see any major defects or problems: it is a shoe with a very clear purpose, which has managed to express in an original way a technology that was being consolidated on a very different, and all in all not very European, type of shoe. In this sense, for the type of terrain on which we are used to run, a more mountainous one, it is perhaps the most suitable carbon shoe for this purpose.

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Eternal Flame

Interview to Jacopo Larcher It was 1989 when the very strong German team made up of Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich, Christof Stiegler and Milan Sykor traced the route along the southern spur of the Nameless Tower (Trango Tower, Pakistan). Exactly 20 years had to pass before the first free ascent was achieved by Thomas and Alexander Huber (7c+ with 800 meters of altitude difference over thirty pitches).

We are talking about Eternal Flame, whose third free repeat was only possible in summer 2022, 13 years after the first one, thanks to the rope team of Barbara "Babsi" Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher, who completed the ascent and descent in six days, from 18 to 23 July.

To celebrate the feat, the feature movie "Burning the Flame" was made which, by telling the story of the climb, also offers an unprecedented and transversal look at the relationship between human beings and rock. “Burning the Flame” was presented at the Milanopreview of Reel Rock Italia, the exhibition of climbing-themed short and medium-length movies, which this year returns for its annual appointment with a tour in 20 Italian cities.

We had a chat with Jacopo Larcher to find out more about this amazing adventure.

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Hello Jacopo! How the idea of climbing this route was born? And how did you prepare and train?

We have always had the dream of tackling such a renowned route but, when we started to approach the world of multi-pitch routes, it seemed like an unattainable feat. Then 4 years ago we started to think about it more seriously and in 2021 we went to Pakistan for the first time but due to bad weather we had to postpone and we returned there last summer. It was a totally new challenge for us as a team so the preparation was a bit improvised. We knew that the climbing difficulties were not that high compared to routes we had already faced but our big unknown was how we would react to the height. I had never climbed so high and Babsi had never climbed at altitude. As training we

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simply tried to do a little more cardio and prepare ourselves better in terms of physical resistance. Furthermore, we had to take care of all the logistical aspects of the expedition, visas, etc. Once we arrived on the wall we had six days of studies and attempts which ended on July 23th, 2022 when, after 24 pitches, we reached the top!

What doubts and fears did you have before facing the climb and how did you deal with them? Altitude was the factor that intimidated us the most but to which we both reacted well. While the thing we hadn't calculated was the weather conditions, we were hoping for high temperatures to be able to climb but instead they led to the snow melting and this, in turn, caused the pitches to get wet, forcing us to stop every two/three hours of climbing waiting for it to cool down.

How much influence does the climbing partner have in achieving such an undertaking? It’s very important! We are lucky enough to be a couple not only on the wall but also in real life and this helps a lot because we know each other perfectly and we have total trust in each other. By always climbing together you know each other's strong and weak points very well so you compensate and help each other.

How many years have you been part of the La Sportiva family and what is your role in the team?

Which models did you use on Eternal Flame? La Sportiva was my first sponsor so being part of their team has sentimental value for me.

I've been working with them for at least 20 years, it's a real family. Over the years I have had the opportunity

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to test different products during the production process and give my feedback. This is also the beautiful thing about the company. On the climb I used Futura and Katana Laces: the first does not have the classic edges of the sole and it uses a thinner and more homogeneous layer of rubber which increases sensitivity and allows the foot to have a uniform push.

The second has exceptional versatility of use to which are added technical solutions capable of offering even higher performances. For the approach I used G-Tech boots which guarantee maximum performance in the most technical and extreme situations.

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Sandra Sevillano Skyrunning between medals, training at dawn and family Talking to most athletes in any field about the beginning of their career, they will say that from an early age they started practicing in a different, more or less competitive way. Many were introduced by their parents, others discovered their talent by chance while still others have always cultivated it.

If in a sport like skiing it is practically impossible to achieve certain performances by approaching the sport as an adult, this is not true for running and especially for trail running. Age is nothing more than a number that goes hand in hand with mileage in your legs and maturity. A beautiful example of this is Sandra Sevillano, an athlete of the Millet team who only approached running after having her first child. She did a few road races, a victory at the Bilbao half marathon, then the first trail race at the Mendi Trail in Bilbao where she discovered the trails. A good dose of motivation was added to her hitherto unknown talent, and her life changed.

Sandra demonstrates that competing at high levels can be reconciled with work life and life as a mother, but she requires rigor... And she wakes her up early, to train before starting the daily routine.

Speaking of rigor, every detail is taken care of: from nutrition to training and Sandra is impeccable in this. Particular and nice is her attention to "lucky charms" and to the elements that make her feel like herself during the run, such as

her beloved visor. This year she has already put in her pocket a long list of important events achieved with excellent results, starting with Transgrancanaria, up to the coveted Chamonix, passing through a silver medal at the European Skyultra championships in Montenegro. And it was precisely in Chamonix that we met her, the day before her debut at CCC, incredibly calm and smiling, as if she weren't about to run a 100km race in a matter of hours. She crossed the finish line in 14:08:18, earning the 18th place in the women category. This interview takes us back to pre-race sensations and moments.

How do you feel? Nervous, concentrated, focused.

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Tomorrow at 9am CCC will start here in Chamonix, and you will be there too. How did you choose it?

It's been a very long season starting from Transgrancanaria, LUT, then the European skyrunning championship... The key for me is to compete, compete and compete, which is why I couldn't miss this event. Running longer and longer distances is one of my current and future goals. At the moment I feel very good and confident.

Is this your first time taking part in CCC here in Chamonix? It is a very important and iconic moment that can be a double-edged sword when it comes to the mental dimension.

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on this important occasion. I want to maintain a calm and positive attitude. Not being among the favourites, the head is lighter from pressures and anxieties. I therefore want to enjoy every step and I am ready to do it to the best of my ability.

You are used to very technical and steep terrain. Here, however, we find a much more runnable route.

What do you expect? Obviously it's very different, because I'm a skyrunner. But in the future I would like to run more and more on terrain like this, to be versatile.

Is there any part of the race that you fear? No, I'm calm. I’ve got everything planned.

rite places are the Pyrenees, the Basque Country, Picos de Europa, Leon.

How did your relationship with Millet begin? After the 2021 European ultra skyrunning championships in which I won, Millet contacted me. I immediately liked their approach and the fact that it was a historic brand born in the Alps, with 100 years of history and sponsorships for high level athletes in mountaineering and the mountains. Plus it coincides with my ideal of skyrunning, mountains with steep gradients in their purest form.

How is your pre-race? What will you wear? In terms of meals I eat rice,

Within the trail running category, Millet has chosen to focus on skyrunning. Is there anything specific aspect that is different about skyrunning compared to other nuances of trail running? I like to do everything, but I have to say that skyrunning is my greatest passion. In terms of equipment, although similar, cushioning and traction must be at the maximum. Millet's Trilogy collection is perfect for me and I have always found all the features I need while at altitude.

Backpack, what atre you gong to use tomorrow? Intense 12, where I can store all the mandatory equipment.

Normally I love running with Intense 5, of which I love the spacious and strategic pockets.

For this kind of races, how important is altitude training? For me, it’s very important! I live at sea level for example, near Bilbao. I can reach a small mountain in twenty minutes from home in less than 500m of altitude, but from there to taking part in the races there is a big difference. My heart rate and sensations undergo significant changes for me depending on the altitude, which is why I often go to the mountains for training at the weekend. Among my favo-

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potatoes, what my nutritionist recommends. But the thing I care about and give top priority to is relax. I will wear the blue Trilogie suit, the Intense 12 backpack and the visor that I never run without, it's my hallmark and it brings good luck!

Is there any moment of the race that you're looking forward to? I can't wait to be at the top! Where I can see far away, breathe the purest air.

How do you manage loneliness, the night, the silence? I'm never afraid. Silence helps me, I like the night. I often train with headlamp so I'm used to it.

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Carlos Garcia Prieto The happy tracker of Tor Des Geants

BY ENRICA GOUTHIER PHOTOS ANJA BAKOWSKA, ROBERTO ROUX

He immediately won me over, first with the messages and then when we made the video call for the interview.

He has an immense passion for his work, so strong that I could start following in his footsteps. His job is to design races: dream them, imagine them and then make them happen. And to do this he uses the best GPS tools to track them and ensure that the route to follow is impeccable.

In the meantime he has combined this work with the organization of races (yes, organizing races is a difficult and extremely complex job). He began in 2008, when the world barely knew what trail running was and trail races could be counted on one hand. He has always run and for this reason, before even starting as a tracker, he had already covered all the existing events. From there, the next step was short. In fact, almost short. Graduated in architecture, he looked for work in his branch of studies, in Milan, without having the desired results. Subsequently, Antonio Zito, founder of Zitoway, contacted him and asked him to help to organize his events. One situation gives rise to another and to this day he doesn't even remember how many races he has traced.

One of the most vivid memories is the anecdote of how he started tracing Lava-

redo Ultra Trail. With an email in which he explained to the race director how his course was not designed well, in response he was asked if he could do better. The gauntlet was thrown down and he found himself in the working team of the Venetian race. He stayed there for eleven years.

Now he has just returned from China, where he is constantly creating new races, and I managed to intercept him with a video call: me in Corsica and him in Spain. I would have gone on for hours listening to his words, stories and explanations of how to plan a race. He has passion, as I was telling you, an irrepressible passion for what he does. And after finishing my Tor Des Geants with the same enthusiasm, I couldn't help but interview the person who created the 2023 official track of the most difficult ultra trail race in the world.

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What does it mean to be a tracker? Two jobs: the first is designing the race, choosing the route where the athletes must run.

We go scouting, evaluating the trails and passages for the competitors to follow and using GPS devices we trace the route. The second is to put up flags or bands, signs to make the route visible. This is the practice when creating a new trace or modifying an existing one. For Tor it was different.

The design had been decided for years but the outline was not perfect: many deviations and little clarity.

Mongolia, Antarctica). With the Aosta Valley race I reached the maximum number of kilometers tracked so far.

What tools do you use for your work and which ones did you use during Tor? Garmin eTrex SE is my favorite tool, it’s precise and safe, I know it never abandons me. It is compact and small, ideal for many occasions. But I usually took other tools with me. Normally I travel with two GPSs turned on and a third spare turned off. So my other travel companion is Garmin GPSMAP. I am happy with the whole range, from the 65 to the 66 versions. These two tools were with me throughout the entire tracing of Tor Des Geants. When I go to explore trails and roads to create new events, if I have the possibility of moving around with a vehicle, I use Garmin GPS 276cx. The screen is really important and I can see the routes well. Furthermore, it has well-spaced buttons and I can work even with gloves. The battery is inexhaustible. The only drawback is its size which allows me to use it only when I travel by car or similar.

So how did the need to trace Tor arise? As I told you, it had an imperfect track with reference points too far apart.

For the organizers it had become essential to recreate a new model to follow, especially since this event attracts many trail runners. After Garmin's call and their proposal I couldn't refuse. When I lived in Milan, I often went there to train.

Now that I'm away it's much more difficult. This was the opportunity to return to a place dear to me.

How many of you were there tracing Tor? I work alone normally, but in this case it wasn't possible. It would have taken me a really long time. I asked Garmin to temporarily "hire" runners from the Courmayeur Trailers association to get rid of the work and be more efficient, and so it was. After the field work, I merged all the tracks checking that no points were missing, that there were no deviations due to signal bounces (between two walls, the signal jumps from the track you are following and places it about 400 meters further away) or problems trackers' personal needs, including physiological needs.

Together we created the official Tor Des Geants track.

Let's raise the bar, it’s time to trace Tor Des Glaciers (450km and 32000 D+)?

It's my job, the answer may be obvious.

Tracking races, especially for those who do it for a living, is essential. Even more so if we are talking about such a high mileage. So yes, I hope to be able to continue and raise the bar by tracing the high route 1 and 2: Tor des Glaciers.

Garmin eTrex is my favorite tool, it’s precise and safe, I know it never abandons me.

It is compact and small, ideal for many occasions.

Was this the longest race you've traced? Before Tor des Geants I had reached 250km, divided into stages, with the Racing The Planet agency, which organizes four races in the desert (Chile, Namibia,

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It's not what you climb, but how you climb it The new first silent climb of Simon Messner and Martin Sieberer in Karakorum

BY LISA MISCONEL P H OTO S S I M O N M E S S N E R & M AT T EO PAVA N A

Seven hundred meters to go to the summit of the untouched Yernamandu Kangri, 7180m, Karakorum.

Simon and Martin are there, sitting next to each other, in silence. If one of the them would say "Enough, let's go back" the other would agree. Instead, although perhaps thinking it, no one says anything. The two, in silence, continue to climb in half a meter of snow towards the summit with the little energy they have left. The fog envelops them, it is the first ascent.

“You don't inherit mountaineering” I seem to remember Simon Messner said in an interview some time ago. A very big last name, a silent climbing.

Talking to Simon about mountaineering makes you understand what that term really means today, where competitiveism and egocentrism often obscure its purity. Perhaps because Italian is not his first language, or perhaps by choice, when he talks about his exploits he refers to them with the term “nice stuff". Not records, FKTs, first ascents or feats... Nice stuff.

It was July 25th when Simon, part of the Salewa People team, together with his faithful companion Martin, first climbed a still unclimbed 7000 peak in Karakorum. Three thousand meters of elevation gain in three days, a line to find and climb relying only on your own strength.

Let’s start from the end. It’s been two years now since you and Martin reached the summit of Yernamandu Kangri. A first time for you above 7000m, but a first time for the peak to be climbed. What was it like to overcome a new limit, what feelings did you have, what went through your mind at that precise moment? There must have been 30 metres, full of snow. To the north there is a snow frame. It was a precious moment, it was foggy and as often happens we saw nothing at all. I thought, before leaving, that it would be a strong moment, and it was, but we also knew that we still had to go down, especially without a rope. (The simple rope just helped us on a mental level, but if we had fallen into a crevasse we would have had no escape). We had a lot of weight on us, and going down was more tiring than going up, it's strange, but it's always like that: you're tired, your concentration is lacking and in the end you're far from civilization and no one can help you. We had had that mountain in mind for a few years, but we had never really thought about facing it. It was very difficult to find photos and information from other expeditions and we had to wait a long time for the visa to enter Pakistan, which arrived three weeks before departure. In the end it worked out

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well. I was very happy and curious to go to that part of Pakistan, the south, Karakorum: very green, the people are kind. We arrived at the base camp, where the last expedition had arrived in 1981. We didn't see anyone, exactly what we were looking for.

Only one snow leopard came to visit several times, but not even a trace of people. Everything was great. We felt good, strong, but the weather didn't agree. It snowed all day, we stayed at base camp playing cards, reading, then finally a window of good weather: three days.

A fast climb preceded by limited acclimatization. 3000 meters of elevation gain in three days. We started out thinking “let's try as long as we can keep going.” We moved forward quickly, maybe too quickly.

I didn't think it was possible to climb 1000 meters in a single day at those altitudes with those conditions and difficulties. However, I think that those were the only conditions to be able to complete the climb: when we were at the top the weather had already changed. Three days that we used to the minute, reaching the limit of our capabilities. At a certain point, sitting on the base of the final wall, I remember well that we were sitting on the ice feeling very tired.

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said "Enough, let's go back" the other would have agreed without saying a word. Instead, no one said anything.

We thought it, but we didn't say it. So we moved on, in silence, it was strange. There was a bit of pressure, that final wall didn't seem easy and we were very tired with the half meter deep snow slowing us down at every step. I would say, and Martin would agree, that if we had brought even the lightest rope we wouldn't have made it: 2-3kg more would have exhausted us before completing the project. It was a borderline climb.

Can you tell us about the expedition through 6 important moments, from choosing your destination to when you returned home?

1. In Europe, when we got the mail with our visas for Pakistan, everything changed. At that moment both Martin and I said “come on, let's go now”.

2. The approach, which went very well: we never got stuck, we were fast, without discomfort or physical problems.

3. Getting to base camp, which didn't exist. It was a place near the glacier that seemed suitable to us. The next day we left to look for the line by crossing the glacier.

4. Waiting day after day because the weather wasn't good. Then when it got better, being able to go out.

5. Climbing up, tracing the line, the connection between us. We took turns to move forward, even 100 meters far away from each others, without saying anything, we took turns as if it were the most natural thing to do.

6. The moment on the final wall, 700 meters with a slope of 60 degrees.

The ice found there is very very hard, almost concrete. We didn't talk for hours while climbing, everyone went up for themselves up to the ridge.

(7. Getting to the top is a little dream come true for both of us.)

Talking about Martine, you have been a close knit and tested team for years which is maybe also one

of the elements that has allowed the success of this expedition.

How long have you been climbing together, what makes you such a close team? I met Martin 4 years ago, just before leaving for my first time in Pakistan in 2019. I immediately noticed that he was very strong, that he is someone who wants to do things and does them without much talking. After the first climb together everything started, we did a lot of nice stuff together even in the Alps such as the Bonatti on the Matterhorn in one day from the valley.

It is very important to find a person who has more or less the same motivation as you. Not with all teammates you have this type of connection.

When I climb I never have to think about him, I have complete faith in his abilities and I guess he thinks the same about me, that's how it works.

Perhaps, indeed certainly, the fact that Martin, like me, climbed solo in the past helps a lot, because we are more or less at the same level and if he can climb unroped, I can do too.

Another key word for this undertaking is alpine style. What meaning do you think the word mountaineering should have?

Mountaineering is an activity with a lot of history. Today we no longer know how to see things, understand how to climb mountains... The how is very important. Most people can afford to climb mountains with a lot of outside help, so to speak. But for me mountaineering is something different, it's trying to climb a line I have in mind with the strength I have. And alpine style means do that without the help of others, if not the one of your partner. Mountaineering is not a sport, it has connections to sport, but it is not a sport. It's very difficult to measure it, conditions change as does the weather. Talking about Pakistan, K2 for example, which is very close to where we were, it's a totally different world there, not necessarily negative, but it's something else. Two,

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three, four hundred people climbing to the top together using ropes, oxygen, helicopters, camps. It's not necessarily wrong, but it's different. To date, both for Martin and for me, the desire to go on an eight-thousander is zero, but truly zero. He has nothing to do with going to the mountains.

If you are alone in the mountains, every decision is up to you, but if you go in a group everything changes: one decides and the others just follow.

Your media exposure has, over the years, increased since the early years when you climbed without being followed by anyone. What has changed and why? As a child it was normal for me to be exposed to the media because of my father's life.

It was kind of normal for us as children, on the other hand I knew that media exposure can help but it's not always a positive thing. I always read my name on two specific sites, I knew I was known in mountaineering and for this reason I always had to be careful. People have always watched me, noticing every false step and so I decided to go my own way, to express myself and in the end those first years were the most beautiful period of time, totally free and carefree. In those years I learned the fundamental things, I went free soloing a lot, which I would no longer do today, and I grew up like a normal mountaineer.

Then I don't know what changed, I improved and grew, I did nice stuff, I don't know. However, it is always important to keep a part of what you do, just for you.

In this interview there are many points that I like to reread, maybe because Simon managed to express things that I had never heard before, maybe because the way in which he did it is different and sincere. In the days preceding the interview, maybe due to the particularly intense attention to the topic, I often wondered what mountaineering was. Now I know a little more.

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Sybille Blanjean: freeriding as a form of art

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Sybille Blanjean, needless to say, started skiing at a very young age in Valais, her home, which soon also became her favorite playground for killer freeriding descents. By drawing line after line, in 2022 she managed on the first try to win "The Xtreme", the most legendary freeride race in the world.

Sybille tell us who you are, taboo words, skiing and snow. I am a positive person full of energy. I'm also a perfectionist: I like to do things well, and when I know I wouldn't succeed in my aim, I prefer to abstain completely.

Can you tell us about your latest project in the higher Alpine regions of Valais? It was a project that I had in mind for a long time: I had the desire to explore the more mountaineering side of skiing, which was unknown to me, having always skied near slopes and ski resorts. Furthermore, I wanted to get to know the peaks in my area better: in Valais we have some truly beautiful mountains, inaccessible by ski lifts, and I wanted to ski them while learning how to move my first steps in mountaineering. I decided to rely on mountain guides, mountain professionals to accompany me on these adventures, and I wanted them to be women: in Valais there are few female mountain guides, who are rarely talked about, and it seemed appropriate to give them more visibility. Furthermore, we share the same passion even if we experience it differently and I wanted to share this experience with them. The mountain guides had the task of organizing the climbs, choosing mountains that had a particular meaning for them. I climbed Le Catogne, a mountain in the Mont Blanc Alps with mountain guide Caroline George. Grisighorn, one of the most iconic mountains in Valais, and Pollux, a mountain in the Rosa massif in the Pennine Alps on the border between the Aosta Valley and Valais, were both climbed together with mountain guide Ramona Volken. We climbed these peaks with ice axe and crampons and skied down. I learned a lot from these experiences: first of all how to use crampons! The most important lesson I received was that the mountains are stronger than us. Several times during the ascents we encountered unfavorable conditions, it was often too hot due to global warming, and we had to turn back. I understood the importance

How did your Freeride World Tour career begin and develop? At first I practiced alpine skiing, but then at twelve years old, when I had to choose whether or not to join the regional team, I decided that I preferred to have some more freedom and have fun with friends. So I started freeriding, but at that time it was just to enjoy skiing: only later did I start competing, when I was fourteen. Soon I started getting good results, and I was happy: freeriding really gave me great satisfaction! I continued, and at eighteen I started participating in the qualifiers to compete in the Freeride World Tour. It all started like this, in a very natural way, by simply having fun and getting good results.

Having grown up in Verbier, it has always been a dream to participate in the Freeride World Tour: in fact, "The Xtreme", the most legendary freeride race in the world, is held here. For the first year on the Freeride World Tour I had fun carefree, but I only really realized I was competing on the circuit when I found myself participating in "The Xtreme": in 2022, I won the competition, on my first attempt. The dream had become reality! It was an unexpected goal: it's clear that I would have liked to reach it, but I really didn't think I could do it on the first try! In general, it's nice to take part in the circuit, I feel at ease with the other athletes, it’s a nice environment and we have fun traveling around the world together getting to know new places and people.

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of knowing how to have patience and giving up when safety requires it. At the end of the day, the most important thing is always to get home safely. Even though we didn't make it to the top many times, we still had incredible moments together sharing the same strong passion. What matters is not skiing stylish lines or how high up you climb: the important thing is being with nice people, having fun. These experiences led to the creation of a movie that tells of the discovery of the highest peaks in the area where I grew up and the sharing of passions and ideas. I also reflect on how profoundly comfortable I feel in the mountains and the experience of fear during high altitude adventures.

naline that I don't feel in any other way. Freeriding, in the end, is like a drug.

Are you crazy or a heroine? No, I'm not a heroine, I'm just a person who loves to do what she likes. Maybe for some people I'm a little crazy, but it's always a calculated craziness: I pay a lot of attention to safety, it's important to have fun, but it's even more important not to get hurt.

In the end, snow is nothing more than water in a different state, and you also love water sports.

What do these sports have in common, and what different emotions do these two elements of nature convey to you? Both are sports that make you "slide" over natural elements, allowing you to experience very special feelings. It's also nice to be in the cold, and then enjoy the warmth of more temperate climates.

What does Valais, your homeland, represent for you, and what does it mean to leave your comfort zone and discover what is unfamiliar to us? It's something that fascinates and scares at the same time.

When you're up there, you realize how high up you are and how many other incredible mountains there are to ski: this feeling inspires me and makes me want to discover them all!

How did the inspiration to draw your line on the snow come about? When I look at a mountain, I first try to find a line that I think will be fun to ski and secondly, I think about the aesthetic aspect, which I think is very important: a line must be beautiful and fluid to see even for people observing from below, that in this way they can also understand how much fun I'm having!

There are still many prejudices about women who go in the mountains by themselves. What is the role of women in the mountains and how important is it to have fun only among women? We can do exactly the same things as men: it is wrong to think that a peak is too high or too difficult to climb.

We should learn to take less into consideration the judgment of people, whether men or women. You can also have fun with men, of course, but being in the mountains only with women is something different: you have more things in common and personally, it is often only with other women that I feel truly protected and safe, I know that I don't have to prove anything and I won't be judged if I say I'm scared. This makes everything easier and makes me feel at ease. It's also great to have fun together and motivate each other!

How important is aesthetics in freeriding? I think it's one of the most important things: I think freeriding is a form of art.

What line do you dream of skiing? Where is it?

Any line in Alaska would be a dream come true!

What do you do when you're not practicing sports? I study physiotherapy, which I love very much, it goes well with sport and my passion: I like taking care of others, it also helps me understand my body better during training and when I don't feel good.

Any future projects? This season the most important goal is to continue competing in the Freeride World Tour, I don't have any big movie-related projects but I would like this activity to continue and to become an important part of my life.

Are you ever afraid before a descent, perhaps when the slope is particularly steep? How do you deal with fear? I am often very scared before a descent, but I try to analyze this feeling and understand if it is dictated by a real danger or just by apprehension or stress. Now I also have more experience, so I can interpret the mountains better, understand what the actual conditions are, know if there really is a risk and therefore take wiser decisions.

Who would you like to be in your next hypothetical life? I don't know, at the moment I'm struggling to even know what I'll do next year! I would like to become a mother and share my passion for snow with my children. This would already be wonderful! I think you can be a great skier and a good mom. I'm inspired by a super freerider, who is also a mother: Jackie Paaso.

Who makes you take all these risks? The intense emotions I feel when I go down a line, and in the end, I know that I skied it relying only on my legs: an adre-

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Sensitivity and passion Hervé Barmasse in Courmayeur BY

DENIS PICCOLO

Guests for two days at the Torino refuge in Courmayeur thanks to SCARPA, with Hervé Barmasse, where he worked a little magic. In the marvelous scenery of the Skyway Monte Bianco, the Aosta Valley mountaineer managed to give a profound and evocative tale of the mountain. On the other hand, this is how he lives it, with sensitivity and passion.

During the event organized by SCARPA, Barmasse spoke about mountaineering, but also about environmental protection.

The mountain is intimate and universal.

It contains within itself stories with many faces that belong both to everyone and to no one, those stories that can be reinvented in a thousand ways because we all know how to make them our own.

A life that develops vertically, between ups and downs, falls and successes. It is on that elevation gain that you meet different meanings. Face to face with yourself, you discover what loneliness is and how much you can learn from it.

“Going to the mountains alone not to be better than others, but to discover something more about myself. You can't lie alone. It's you, alone, and the mountain. You have to really think about what you're doing, where to put your feet, what to do.”

For that fragment of time in the clouds of Mont Blanc, Hervé offered his. A story that, as often happens, begins with a painful challenge. A promising ski mountaineer, at the age of 16 he had an accident that put an end to all his dreams of a career.

The mountain puts you face to face with your own limits and, therefore, your own possibilities. “Solitude gave me the beauty of listening to others. And in a society like today's, listening is difficult." On the crest we discover the value of others and in particular of friends. “What is a rope team? It's friendship. It's not a nylon thread that really binds us in the mountains, it's real friendship. After an injury, more than five hundred meters above sea level, without a helicopter, what do you do? You have to be friends there.

“The journey wasn't easy, but in the end I recovered and after two years I reached the top of Matterhorn. You can see me in that photo, a photo that changed my life. Not just because I have recovered from the accident. Up there on Matterhorn I found happiness again, I discovered what my future could have been: climbing mountains. And if you're not stupid, you hold onto happiness, it's your reason for living.”

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Life is always precious and we must make the most out of it, but we must also understand the meaning of what we do on this planet. The only advice is just one word: happiness. If you are happy there is no obstacle that will stop you, there is no goal that you will not be able to achieve, there is no dream that you will not be able to fulfil. climb. And it is again this idea, that “how” you do it matters as much as “what” you do, that stopped his undertaking three meters from the top.

In a real rope team, if you trust whoever is with you, you will get out of it."

Sounds familiar? Of course, Barmasse is a mountaineer and many of us are far from defining ourselves as such, but his story is also a bit like ours. Who is a mountaineer?

A very normal person, says Barmasse, a very normal person with abilities that sometimes has the opportunity to put at the service of others.

“On a day off we decide to go climb an ice waterfall. Beautiful, 1000 meters of climbing. I risked dying there. The mountain collapsed on me. And then the question arises: what do we do with our lives? How much did we receive? How much are we giving to others? It's always a question of balance: receiving and giving, receiving and giving.

Making sure there is that balance is an important thing. After that experience I understood that when I went to climb a mountain, I wouldn't do it to achieve a primacy or a record, I wouldn't do it just for myself. Where I could, I would have tried to help others with the little I can do, with my knowledge."

“By risking my life I understood how important it is, but that doesn't mean I want to throw it away. That climb ended three meters from the top. Giving up in the mountains is not a failure, it is simply an experience, one that makes you grow and allows you, in the future, to try again. It was also important to tell this thing here. Life is precious. We don't throw it away, we live it with passion and love. Reinhold Messner at the Trento Film Festival said 'it doesn't matter the three meters you didn't do, what matters is the 2500 meters you did before, and how you did them'. That was the important thing, that the mountains, even the eight-thousanders you tackle for the first time, you can face them in a clean way, leaving them untouched."

The mountain once again becomes a teacher of life in Barmasse's stories, which concludes with just one piece of advice, or rather, just one word.

A mountaineering that certainly dreams of mountains like the legendary eight-thousanders, but which also dreams of “how" to reach them. The summit is not the real goal, what counts is how you reach the summit, and the traces you leave behind. Barmasse tackles the first eight-thousander (Tibet, Shisha Pangma 8027m) with a clear idea in mind: a clean

“Life is always precious and we must make the most out of it, but we must also understand the meaning of what we do on this planet. The only advice is just one word: happiness. If you are happy there is no obstacle that will stop you, there is no goal that you will not be able to achieve, there is no dream that you will not be able to fulfil."

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Chats and runs with Francesco Puppi and Tyler Green Chalet Nike, Chamonix, UTMB week 2023

BY DENIS PICCOLO

During the most colorful days of the year in Chamonix, we were lucky enough to be able to stay at Chalet Nike, sharing a few days with some of the protagonists of the UTMB week. Among the guests we were able to get to know better were two runners of different ages, backgrounds and experiences who it was wonderful for us to get to know more closely.

Francesco Puppi, now part of The Pill family but who we usually see in "dirtbag" mode during races or as a "product nerd" during our tests, is, both before and

after his amazing performance, in the spotlight and busy to meet friends and followed from all over the world. Tyler Green arrived from the States with his family after a second place at the queen of ultra races, Western States, to end the season on a high note. The dream of the top ten, the thousand doubts, the sacrifices, but also a wife who races OCC and a grand finale with a seventh place overall. We have many memories of simple moments from those pre-race days, and these few lines of chats over a beer.

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Why trail running and not road running?

F - I like that everything in trail running is unpredictable and that the variables are more numerous, in a trail running race you have to pay attention to many more factors and your perceived effort is far more relevant. It's not that I like trail running more than road running, as I always say, I'm a runner, period. On every terrain!

T - I feel that there is more informality in trail running, more fun.

When I'm on the road I often look for obstacles, because I feel that the more I can incorporate fun into running, the more engaging it is. If we really analyze this sport, we realize that it's not just about running: it's flat, uphill, downhill, even a lot of walking and lateral movements avoiding obstacles and so on.

Let's move to running and lifestyle: how do you keep a balance between running and your life outside of races?

T - I have been a middle school teacher for a couple of years and at the same time I was also a cross country coach, and reconciling everything wasn't easy. “Wake up early, run, forget about the runner for the rest of the day.” This year I managed to leave the teaching position, continuing to do some coaching. My wife and I have an 11-month-old daughter and we both run for Nike, so we have to coordinate both of our running with baby care. This sport requires many sacrifices but it is important to dedicate the right time and mind to the other important things in life, just imagine the possibility of an injury: it is important to have a network of things around you that contributes to mental health and gives value to your life.

What about you Francesco? How do you keep a balance between running and your life outside of races?

F - (Laughs) I don't think I've fully deciphered it yet. It's always a precarious balance between life as an athlete, recovery time and everything else. In some periods of time I focus on training and try to free up time from other hobbies and stuff. It's clear that this isn't always possible, and occasions like this, where Nike follows the whole team to a race, are incredible for me. They allow us athletes to be taken care of, to have people around us who take care of us with the utmost attention and kindness. It could happen more often, I wouldn't mind (laughs). And then I want to mention that it's important to not let running define you. It can be dangerous, your achievements don't define who you are, there are other things you need to take care of in life.

How often do you train? And is there a particular place where you like to train?

F - I train every day, sometimes twice a day. I occasionally take a day off and in the end the volume is around 15-20 hours a week, averaging 160km.

Besides that I have some cross running sessions. I like the "torturing" approach, as you just exit the front door and run. Sure, sometimes you need to train on specific terrains, but flexibility is key.

T - My training consists of a stable range of 80-90 miles, which means around 140-150km per week. Then, a factor that I am quite convinced is essential for me, is the addition of some specific training. Not all runners need it, but I'm 39 years old and, well, the older you get the more that extra becomes necessary, so I add core strengthening sessions and biometric work. Finally there is the training camp, which is also essential for me. Three or four days of long distances, in which towards the last two I start running with difficulty. It is in the effort that I simulate large parts of the race and solidify my intentions.

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What are your favorite trails when it comes to downhill or uphill?

F - Regarding downhill trails, one of the funniest memories dates back to last year. A 22 mile run I did with Tyler up to Mount Hood on the Pacific Crest Trail. It was quite special, it went down lightning fast and the view was simply beautiful. I was very inspired by that run. As for climbing… I think a very popular, semi-climbing place is Barr Trail in Colorado. Red rocks and barren ground. It's very special, a unique atmosphere.

As for Nike… What does the brand have to offer the trail running world and what sets it apart from other brands?

T - The world of trail running is represented as a meeting between mountain companies and road running companies, and therefore as the mixing of two fundamentally different worlds, with different running styles and ways of making products.

Every brand has its own vision of things and it's a crucial factor that Nike has that history on road running. It means, among other things, that Nike has a ton of participation in road running and, therefore, a ton of opportunities to bring new people into the world of trail running. There is no need to throw people onto trails as straight as walls. As in every discipline, there is a dimension of trail that is accessible to all and enjoyable by all.

Every brand has its own vision of things and it's a crucial factor that Nike has that history on road running.

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You can call it friendship

BY I L A R I A C H I AVAC C I P H OTO S M AT T EO PAVA N A

Alessandro Beber is 37 years old, he has been a mountain guide for 14 years and to be able to sign up for the coveted rock climbing course he had to overcome his parents' resistance, which collapsed when he was 13. Alessandro Baù is also a mountain guide, but in reality he is an engineer: for him the contact with the mountains was facilitated by his father, who took him climbing, and by a scholarship to attend a ski school. They met while they were both attending university in Padua.

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The one that leads two mountaineers to open routes around the Alps for decades and to keep intact the bond of understanding, the ethics and respect.

Alessandro Beber and Alessandro Baù, together with Nicola Tondini and supported

by Montura, have established Enigma, a new route on Torre Trieste.

The one that leads two mountaineers to open routes around the Alps for decades and to keep intact the bond of understanding, the ethics and respect. Alessandro Beber and Alessandro Baù, together with Nicola Tondini and supported by Montura, have established Enigma, a new route on Torre Trieste.

Alessandro Beber is 37 years old, he has been a mountain guide for 14 years and to be able to sign up for the coveted rock climbing course he had to overcome his parents' resistance, which collapsed when he was 13.

Alessandro Baù is also a mountain guide, but in reality he is an engineer: for him the contact with the mountains was facilitated by his father, who took him climbing, and by a scholarship to attend a ski school.

They met while they were both attending university in Padua, clearly the meeting took place in a climbing gym. «From there we started climbing together and the first exit proposal I received from Ale Bau was immediately a pretty tough route on the north-west face of Civetta: we hit the ground running, it was a kind of blind date quite challenging, but we saw that even the difficult things were good for us and we continued from there" begins Ale Beber.

«We are two similar people with the same passion who have made different choices: I tried to merge passion and work, to make them one. This has pros, because I constantly live in the mountains, but it also has cons because it is difficult to find personal space in this environment. You spend a lot of effort to realize the dreams and goals of others, which then end up becoming your own: it's a beautiful and rewarding thing, but it leaves a little less space for purely personal projects. Ale has chosen to do a different job which however allows him to have time to go to the mountains: where he wants, when he wants and with who he

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wants and I think that both choices have lights and shadows.»

«We both try to play with what we have available using it in the best way possible. Sometimes it turns out well, sometimes not" continues Ale Baù. «"Enigma", like many of the routes we have opened, was named by Ale Beber: it is he who has the ability to synthesize concepts and emotions. “Enigma”, because we thought about it a lot. “Enigma”, because we ask ourselves many questions before going to a wall that has made the history of mountaineering: we wanted to do something beautiful because we didn't want to ruin pre-existing ones with our route, respecting precise ethics.»

Ale Beber: «We as mountaineers go through a lot of trouble: when we go to open a route on a historic face we try to respect the tradition of that face. Torre Trieste is one of the most beautiful walls in the Dolomites, one of those that recall the ambition of mountaineers, but a compromise must be found between ambition and the correct style, which reflects that of the wall. In 2023 there are already enough lines and routes and, if to open a new route, it is necessary to cross or overlap the previous routes, this is a reason for demerit: it would be a bit like taking a famous painting and going there to make some adjustments to your liking.

We need to set ourselves some strict rules, which must then be respected throughout the opening.»

You speak of this route as a triumph of friendship, why? «We opened the route by returning three times and for two days each: we usually took this time to bivouac» explains Ale Beber. «The penultimate time I couldn't be there because I had already planned a family trip: Ale Baù and Nicola Tondini, who participated with us at the opening of “Enigma”, went on those two days

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"Enigma", like many of the routes we have opened, was named by Ale Beber: it is he who has the ability to synthesize concepts and emotions.

“Enigma”, because we thought about it a lot. “Enigma”, because we ask ourselves many questions before going to a wall that has made the history of mountaineering.

alone without me and, pushing hard and pulling at the pace, they could have reached the top and finished the route, but instead they waited for me and left me the last pitch to open. Which, put like that, seems like a small thing, but also in terms of time consuming it means a lot: it means going back down and then taking another two days to go back up and redo another 800 meters of climbing to open the route all together. For me it was truly a triumph of friendship and human relationships and, from my point of view, a gesture that I appreciated very much, because there is a lot of physical but also organizational effort behind it.»

«We were undecided whether to go or not, because Ale was missing, then with the fact that it was the end of the season and that there was another team that was establishing routes nearby, we decided to go. But we would never have been able to get to the top without him" adds Ale Baù to the story. «Montura supported the expedition in terms of equipment, but above all it helped us to document the climb through the lens of Matteo Pavana: it is always difficult to document these climbs because you are busy, not just surviving, but at least getting out of situations potentially dangerous, so documentation takes second place.»

As far as you know, has the route already been repeated? Ale Beber: «Yes, during the beginning of September by two guys from the CAI Eagle Team: Marco Cordin and Matteo Monfrini. Ale and I repeated routes opened by others very few times. Opening a route requires a different level in terms of effort: both mental, physical, logistical and organizational and not everyone is willing to make this effort. Furthermore, you need an excellent feeling and harmony in the team.

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we manage to fit together our commitments we always shoot high so as not to waste good days. The fact that this is recognized is a great demonstration for us. Together we opened about ten routes: on Civetta, on Campanile Basso, on Cima Tosa, one on Pale di San Martino which is called “Fiaba della sera" and which won the award for best climb of 2021. One on Cimon della Pala , which is called “Fumo nei occhi” and another also in the area called “Viva gli sposi” because it was the year in which Ale Baù got married.

“Colonne d’Ercole”, in Civetta, has become a highly difficult route in the Dolomites: Spaniards, Greeks, Slovenians and Swiss have come to redo it and it has also been recognized in international interviews.»

Ale Baù: «These are all routes that are repeated and for which climbers come from all over the world: we are a bit biased, but it is always difficult to get noticed or have recognition in our home mountains, it is easier to have resonance on distant and famous mountains but, from the point of view of style, technical difficulty and beauty, they are beautiful routes. Those who are inside the environment know this and there are climbers who, to our satisfaction, have come from abroad to repeat our routes.»

Ale Beber: «It is a sign that the routes have been opened with a clear and honest style. This is the result of all the problems we have before going to the wall: the result is a route which, in addition to being beautiful from an aesthetically and climbing point of view, has a shared intrinsic value from the point of view of respect for ethics. People recognize and appreciate this.»

Do you have any new routes you've put your eyes on? «This is a disease we are very far from recovering from, so we are already thinking about the next one.»

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Olympic shadows

BY PIETRO LACASELLA P H OTO S LU CA M ATAS S O N I

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Shade tolerance. I’ve learned the meaning of this unusual term a few days ago, while I was walking with a friend at the edge of the woods. Shade tolerance means liking the shadows and it usually refers to plants that prefer dimly lit environments or to animals with crepuscular or nocturnal habits. While I repeated that word in a low voice, as if to better impress it in my mind, a reflection capable of creating a bridge between ecology and anthropology took shape. "Alpine populations often have high shade tolerance" I said to myself, looking at the shadow cast on the ground by the larches. They don't like living in the spotlight, especially when they are asked to speak out against the major infrastructure projects planned for mountain tourism. Infrastructures that often have a high consumption of collective, economic and environmental resources.

There are essentially two reasons for this reticence. The first is given by the fact that new cable cars, new trampolines, new bobsled tracks, new disco-huts designed for après-ski, (…) in many cases represent the only way that mountain communities have to receive some attention from institutions, to hope for the arrival of essential services for a dignified life. It is a sort of blackmail on the part of large investors, because they almost always invest in a single direction, without presenting alternative socio-economic scenarios to communities. Either the track or nothing. Either the ski jumping hill or nothing. Either the bobsleigh or nothing. Considering that the word "nothing" terrifies those who for centuries have been victims of an existence marked by deprivation, hardship and migration, then we tend to accept "everything" uncritically. Maybe even when the investment is destined

to fail quickly. Trying to do an empathic exercise, it's an understandable dynamic, although not always easy to justify.

However, as I was writing, those who live in the mountains are inclined to take refuge in the shadows for a second reason. A reason perhaps even more difficult to grasp for those who are used to living in the city or in metropolitan contexts. Often, within a country, everyone knows each other in a more or less direct way. Taking a position, perhaps on a thorny and divisive issue, is therefore equivalent to submitting to social judgement, to be invested with a label that the overpopulation of metropolises camouflages with greater ease. Personal reflections, if expressed, acquire greater weight. Therefore, even when the inhabitants of our mountains are against the defacement of their territory, they tend towards a “shade tolerance".

But anthropology, a human subject, is obviously full of exceptions. Therefore, every now and then, we see strong stances taken by mountain communities. One of these took place on Sunday September 24th, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, where residents decided to mobilize in an attempt to stop an enormous and risky investment of public money, destined to take away the shine of the Pearl of the Dolomites with a work which risks remaining unfinished. I am of course talking about the bobsleigh track planned to be built for the 2026 Winter Olympics. More than120 million euros, the estimates say, in favor of a sport that has a handful of athletes in Italy. Furthermore, operating expenses will cost the Municipality of Cortina about one and a half million euros per year. The continuous postponement of the works has finally halved the months available to complete the structure within the limits defined by the timetable: the risk

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that the construction site will begin without being completed on time is now more realistic than ever. In short, for these and other reasons the bobsleigh track has become a symbol, partly and entirely, of an economic model that is out of time, which irreparably erodes the environment and collective goods.

The appeal of the Ampezzo residents was aimed at all those who care about the future of our mountains and the response went beyond expectations.

In Cortina, around a thousand people hit the streets. A lot of people, considering the difficult geographical location. Among these there was a guy from Piedmont. Blonde, unkempt beard, the look of someone who has traveled a lot.

During the procession he was pushing a bicycle loaded with everything he needed to get away from home for a few days. He explained to me that he came from Trento, where he currently lives.

He had decided to participate in the mobilization representing Protect Our Winters Italia, an organization born in the United States from the idea of a professional snowboarder and immediately appreciated by various representatives of the world of winter sports. Drawing on the expertise of communicators and scientists, Protect Our Winters aims to raise awareness about global warming and its effects. The guy’s name is Michele Filippucci and, when the people of Ampezzo made the microphone available to allow the participants to contribute with a reflection, he spoke with grace and firmness.

“I would like to tell you about an experience I had a few weeks ago" he said.

“When I decided to take a ride around where I was born and raised (Pinerolo, in bassa Val Chisone, in the Turin area).

With a friend, I crossed the Alps from Pinerolo to Briançon. We reached the

most amazing places of the area: the wild valleys of Val Germanasca, the Assietta road, Monti della Luna. I discovered new places close to home and I was amazed by the beauty of others that I thought I knew. On my return” he added “I took an alternative route.

I decided to go and discover the other side of the 2006 Olympics. Up there, at the highest altitudes, the abandoned infrastructure remains: first of all the Cesana bobsleigh track and the Pragelato ski jump. I found confirmation of what I had already glimpsed and heard: the Olympics did not benefit the mountain area as much as the plains. The Olympic facilities are vandalized, the copper from the electrical circuits stolen, and the lack of maintenance has evidently compromised the functioning of the systems. The mass of works has erased pastures and disfigured landscapes. All around, apart from a few exceptions, the villages are frequented by a handful of citizens on holiday and residents are forced to look for many of the services in the plains. Better understanding the legacy of the Olympics opened my eyes to how the valley's development vision of the last twenty years has been ineffective. Investing in infrastructure such as the bobsleigh track and ski jumping hills has failed to boost the economy of the upper valley. And if yesterday this idea of development was wrong, today, with global warming and snow in short supply, it is even more wrong.”

Those words revealed the disorientation and melancholy of those who experience firsthand the transformations of a familiar landscape caused by short-range projects lacking a beneficial influence on societies. And short-range, as reported by Michele, was the life cycle of various systems built for Torino2006. I had the opportunity to visit Alta Val di Susa

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The Pragelato Olympic ski jumping hill stood, quite battered, costing around 34.3 million euros and closed since 2008. Things didn't go any better at the Sauze d'Oulx freestyle facility, which costed 9 million and closed after just six days of activity (it was dismantled in 2012).

last fall, an exceptional time to explore its places, because, being covered with larches, it gets tinged with precious shades. It was precisely in this fairytale landscape that the Pragelato Olympic ski jumping hill stood, quite battered, costing around 34.3 million euros and closed since 2008.

Things didn't go any better at the Sauze d'Oulx freestyle facility, which costed 9 million and closed after just six days of activity (it was dismantled in 2012).

Not to mention the Cesana bobsleigh track, which remained in operation for only six years. It hosted around twenty events, including the Olympics, and costed 110 million. Yet there was a resort already ready just an hour's drive away, in La Plagne, France, but it would have been too great a shame to ask the French cousins for help: “If the Olympics are in Italy” people said, “the bobsleigh’s track should be in Italy."

A similar fate was the one of Jumping hotel, located at the base of the aforementioned ski jumping hill, with 120 beds and a cost of 20 million, and the Sansicario biathlon facility, another 6 million. This is the legacy that Torino2006 has left to the Piedmontese mountains. Not even twenty years have passed and history is about to repeat itself. With MilanoCortina2026 we are in fact about to stumble clumsily over the same mistakes. These Olympics, decorated by the organizers with the medal for sustainability, have very little to prove sustainable facts: both from an economic and environmental point of view. The bobsleigh track, as I wrote, has become an emblem of the paradoxes and inconsistencies of the next winter games. And to think that just 150 kilometers away, in Igls (Innsbruck), there would be a facility ready to host the races, thus allowing economic and environmental resources

to be saved. Considering this alternative would not be a planning failure, but an excellent opportunity to demonstrate that our country, with strength and foresight, can become the standard-bearer of a renewed modernity.

I wrote this article two days after the mobilization of September 24th. If twenty days ago my fingertips were burning hot on the keyboard, today they are scorching hot to say the least. However, we are talking about a different warmth, now pleasant, because in the meantime important news has arrived, from the voice of CONI president Giovanni Malagò: “(…) the Government has informed us that it is evaluating the best and most sustainable option, that is, not building the Sliding Center (bob track, ed.) and moving the races to an already existing and functioning venue and consequently Milano Cortina 2026 must find another venue outside Italy.” We will go abroad, then. Now we need to understand where. The most popular places are St. Moritz and, coincidentally, Innsbruck. This decision is certainly the result of poor organization, but also, it must be underlined with a hint of satisfaction, it was influenced by those who committed themselves to laying the foundations to create a movement of opinion more attentive to the real needs of mountain areas.

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Chronoception: timeless lines in Kyrgyzstan

BY E VA TO S C H I PHOTOS JEREMY BERNARD

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There are thousands of ways to tell a story: this follows a different way of experiencing time, which guides the protagonists of the movie by Picture throughout the twentytwo days of the expedition in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

Following in the footsteps of the ancient Silk Road, Thomas Delfino, Léa Klaue and Aurélien Lardy embark on an adventure in one of the most remote and still unexplored places in Asia: Kokshaal-Too mountains. This dream team, with the support of mountain guides Hélias Millerioux and Jean-Yves Fredriksen, finds itself catapulted into a world where time and space seem to have stopped. There are wild animals, of course, but equally wild are the mountain landscapes and weather conditions. Time speeds up as they arrive and try their first turns on the other side of the world, carving breathtaking lines over truly pristine peaks.

This very intimate and deeply experienced adventure brings Kyrgyzstan and its culture into the hearts of each of the adventurers who have undertaken it.

Thomas Delfino tells us about his “Chronoception".

Since time and space are decidedly personal conceptions, where and when does this adventure begin for you? For me this adventure began when I was looking for wild mountains to ski and I discovered Kyrgyzstan, and in particular this area, by looking at photos of some climbers who had climbed some lines there. As I saw the pictures I said to myself that it would be absolutely cool to organize an expedition there and try to climb and ski those mountains. I never thought it would happen in such a short time but since an expedition organized by Picture in Russia was canceled due to the war in Ukraine, we took the opportunity and I pulled out the "Kyrgy" card to play it with the rest of the crew, who immediately threw themselves into the adventure.

very different from how we imagine it here in Europe. For example, I was fascinated by how some locals live in yurt tents, work with horses and livestock. The colors, the dances, the musicians gave a great contribution to creating the mood of our documentary. It's a totally immersive culture.

How are the mountains and the approach to them different from the one in the Alps?

You know, when you go on a big expedition deep in the mountains, especially in countries with little infrastructure, you have to approach them in a very different way than what you're used to in the Alps. There's no chance of being rescued, first of all, because this would take too long. This is why I skied a lot in a conservative way, I think it's something everyone should do when they find themselves on these expeditions into deeply wild lands. This me-

What struck you about Kyrgyz culture? The culture of Kyrgyzstan is very interesting: it is

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The culture of Kyrgyzstan is very interesting: it is very different from how we imagine it here in Europe. For example, I was fascinated by how some locals live in yurt tents, work with horses and livestock. The colors, the dances, the musicians gave a great contribution to creating the mood of our documentary.

It's a totally immersive culture.

What connections did you make along the way? We didn't meet any locals because we were far away, deep in the mountains, but when we returned from the expedition we spent a month traveling around the country and we experienced the everyday life, trying to savor it. In truth, during the expedition we had contact with a local: our chef Davan. It was very funny because we had a lot of difficulty communicating with each other.

ans, for me, staying around 60% of my descent capabilities. When we take risks in the mountains we do so with awareness and we adapt our style accordingly.

How was it to ski on them? It was truly incredible. When we initially arrived at base camp we were a little worried because from where we were we began to observe the mountains with binoculars and found a lot of ice on the walls we wanted to ski. Luckily we were "graced" by severe weather conditions which brought snow and covered the ice. We happened to wake up at base camp with 20cm of fresh snow destined to melt during the day but which, on the glacier or higher up, would have remained and created excellent conditions. Before starting the descents we did some tests and this helped us a lot since we were unable to find any information on the snow conditions and history. However, we found good conditions, we were lucky.

A line that you skied that particularly left a mark on you? During the movie you see three different lines on three different mountains: the first two are more fun lines where we could go fast and make a few large turns while the third, the “Midnight Butterfly”, was a totally different experience. It was a more imposing mountain, with large crevasses and to deal with it we had to approach it in a totally different way. If I have to think of a line that particularly sticks in my mind, it would be that one, because it required different skills.

Although I like going fast in powder and making sweeping turns, I enjoyed it just as much, if not more, as we skied this line. We had to look for it, wait for it, and we shared a more complete experience even as a team.

Tell me more about the expedition: what exactly did you do? I must confess that we spent a long time waiting. Out of three months in the mountains we only skied three days.

We had three and a half days of good weather, it was very frustrating because we were far away but at the same time close to the mountains and we had to wait a long time for the weather to be good. A key element in expeditions is learning to play the “Waiting Game”.

We played cards, we told each other stories, we played and danced. It was a lot of fun, taken on its own. Then, when the weather finally improved we focused on what we went there for, and the action began.

How does this adventure end, if it ends.

That’s a cool question. Does this adventure end? I don’t really know. It’s the point of the whole movie. When we finished skiing we went back home, or at least in the “civilized” society, and we brought back with us a lot of memories that will forever be in our minds.

So you might be right, this story may have no end.

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Running and exploring with Komoot

BY STEFANO LIONET TI PHOTOS DENIS PICCOLO RUNNERS SARA ARMENTO & STEFANO LIONET TI

We humans are lazy and creatures of habit. I am certainly no exception. And so it ends up that at a certain point (partly out of laziness, partly out of habit and partly to not waste too much time) when you go out for a run you follow the usual path you're used to, furnishing very carefully your area of comfort.

But if I think about why I got into trail running, one of the main reasons was to discover new places, beautiful places. So if I can accept always doing the same four routes when I have to train on road, I become reluctant to return to the same places when it comes to off road. So, when Sara proposed a 2-3 hour tour I thought it was the right opportunity to do something different.

animated markers that indicate the direction of the route, colored lines that distinguish the different tracks and starting points that highlight the proposed options. To use these features, simply select your desired sport and enter a location from the Explore board on the web platform or via the "Find Your Next Adventure" button on the iOS and Android apps. Komoot will then show the best routes on the map. Users can start navigation, save the route to their profile, share it with others or edit it via the Tour Planner.

To run on new paths, and do it without constantly stopping and wondering if you're running on the right side, tools like Komoot literally save your training. New “Explore” features have recently been implemented which, as the name suggests, are designed to take you to new places with ease. An innovative and interactive cartographic interface with over 5.5 million tours available all over the world to discover routes starting from the desired location. This process is made even more customizable thanks to new filters that allow you to select parameters such as elevation gain, duration, distance and much more. The map is enriched with

We decide to start from Runaway, a store in Milan, there we find Luca who gives us some suggestions about the trails. I open Komoot, select Trail Running as activity and geolocate myself to find some options within a maximum of an hour's drive. Thanks to the filters I can insert all my specific requests and among the proposals Monte Due Mani immediately catches my eye: I was there only once a few years ago and I remember it being beautiful and wild, with one of those metal

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When we come out of the woods the landscape is spectacular: the colors around us are that red-brown that you expect in this season andthe rock of these places emerges angrily from the ground bivouacs at the top that resemble a lunar landing module. It's set.

Shortly after we reach at the top.

The clouds are low and the sun is semi-hidden, expanding the golden hour in a surreal way. The bivouac is closed and we find some "evidence" of the fact that the local population does not appreciate this choice. We sit under the cross to rest and take some photos: “Hey, do you see that ibex over there? I think it'll be joining us soon." We still have half an hour of full light and we enjoy it by running back and forth on the ridge, the climb wasn't very runnable and looking at the maps the descent won't be either, at least we will get our legs moving a bit.

You can climb Monte Due Mani in many ways, the proposed route starts in the valley, shortly after Balisio, north of Lecco. It's not the route I took last time: it's better this way. We pass the Alva Market, a true local institution for strong stomachs, and park a little further on. I also save the track in the offline version because I already know that shortly thereafter we will no longer have a signal, we share the track on our respective sports watches and off we go. We go straight up, it's the price to pay when you want to make the minimum of elevation game and you have little time available. But that's okay, we are in the middle of October but the temperatures exceed 26°C, the climb is unforgiving and we soak our vests in sweat. When we come out of the woods the landscape is spectacular: the colors around us are that red-brown that you expect in this season and the rock of these places emerges angrily from the ground, we find clear signs that the place is the territory of goats and ibex. At the crossroads we check the track on the app, we split half of a bar and a handful of gummies and off we go again.

In the end we were right, the ibex reached us, even if it later turned out to be a goat. It makes us understand that this is its house, so it is now time to go down. A final check on the return track and we run down quickly, we never want darkness to fall while we are in the woods. We arrive at the car park just before the sun disappears completely behind Resegone, the weather is still unnaturally hot. Another route to save and share with friends and running mates and why not, maybe with some runners who will find my profile on Komoot.

We catch our breath and change our clothes. Pizza? Pizza.

Have you noticed that there’s no one around? Yes, it's amazing.

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The American affair UTMB Chamonix 2023

BY FILIPPO CAON P H OTO S P H I L I P R E I T E R , J O R D I SA R AG O S SA , DAV I D M I L L E R

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It's just after eight am, the sun has risen from Aiguille du Dru and is starting to warm up the streets of Chamonix.

I'm sitting in a bistro on Rue Joseph Vallot, sipping my second café Américain of the morning with my chair facing the street, watching the arrivals of the 38-hour Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc and trying to gather my thoughts on the week ahead finishing. This year the magazine was clear: go to Chamonix and do what you want, look around, enjoy the city and then write an article. It seemed like a neat thing to me and so, without making too many fuss and with the aftermath of jet leg, I packed up my tent for the umpteenth time, abandoned the warm Adriatic shores and came to France.

all in the same way. My story will hardly add anything new, it will hardly provide an enlightening interpretation, this is because it seems like a story already written, its narrative arc is so clear and defined as to leave little room for maneuver to those who tell it: it is the hero's journey, and one of those stories destined to become a myth.

It’s hard to tell where this story begins. It could start twenty years ago, with the first edition of UTMB and the first American women's victory. It could start with the records of Rory Bosio and Dauwalter. It could start with the failures of Twietmeyer, Jurek, Karnazes, Meltzer, Krupicka. It could start with the “curse of the Americans”. It could start with the many theories, regularly disproved by women's successes, of why no American male athlete had ever won this race. It could start in 2017 with the first participation of Jim Walmsley, the victory of D'Haene, and the four Americans in the top 10 (Tollefson, Walmsley, Bowman, Miller). Or it could start a year ago, with Walmsley leaving Flagstaff, its cacti and Arizona and moving to Beaufort to learn from his friend François how to win UTMB, he who has won four of them, an ultrarunner version of Luke Skywalker and Yoda or Uma Thurman and Pai Mei. It could start in all these ways, and they would all be fine, they would explain this UTMB from the first to the last kilometer, and they would make the ending appear as clear and inevitable as the screenplay of a film, too good to be true as Frankie Valli sang. It's a good story to tell, after all.

So a week later I find myself for the third time in the uncomfortable situation of being in Chamonix for a glossy magazine to write a piece about Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc. Initially I imagined the usual paranoid article in which we elegantly glissade from the news to insignificant details and social analyses, with in-depth descriptions about the coffee in the press room and the local pubs, all this to spare you and me the torture of a chronicle of abandonments, withdrawals and explosions, resolved with yet another anodyne French victory.

For strictly professional reasons, honestly, I was hoping for it a little, but in a completely unexpected way, fate reserved for me a rare and romantic story, a story that I had waited for for years but which I had never really fully believed in.

It’s a race that needs to be told.

This Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc will be remembered as the UTMB of the Americans, and in the coming days and weeks the press and the media will talk about this race in many different ways, but ultimately

So we will start this story a little later, when the rest of the story has already begun.

It's 6.12pm on the first Friday of Septem-

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ber and along the cycle way, in Bossons, towards Les Houches, adidas has rented an entire pub and is giving out free beers.

I am on the path with Francesco, Gloria and Luca, and a group of French guys.

There is a feverish tension and, not having precisely measured the distance from the centre, we venture hypotheses on the first passages. When the first runners finally arrive, it seems like a movie already seen: Jim swallowed up by the group trying to stay in control, before ruining everything four kilometers later, on the climb of Les Houches, passing first in Les Contamines together with a Zach Miller, and then ruining everything at the first light of dawn, once they entered Italy. At the third kilometer there are already people dripping with sweat and close to retiring: it doesn't matter whether they are first or last, age or origin doesn't matter, even the experience they have doesn't matter, there's little you can do with experience when you're doubled over vomiting and you've climbed eight hundred meters out of ten thousand.

morning and discovering that once in Switzerland they were still there imbued us with a sense of cautious optimism. From Courmayeur the race goes up towards the Bertone refuge for a steep and long climb, from there follows a very runnable stretch on Val Ferret, in which Zach had set a frenetic pace that had left Jim slightly behind.

On the descent into Switzerland Jim's race had become difficult to the point of being caught by Germain Grangier. Zach had been ahead of them for ten minutes, keeping up his unsustainable pace, and he would be next to fall, I thought. A written story: Americans in front, stabbing each others, and a French guy not far behind, like a vulture, ready to collect their corpses.

With this sad prediction in our minds, Alessandro and I throw our Make America Great Again caps in a bin in Chamonix and take the organization's bus to the Trient aid station. In Switzerland we lose data and with them updates. The service, for those providing assistance, costs 80 euros, but for us members of the national press it is free.

When we arrive in Trient the aid station is buzzing, something has happened but we don't know what, the live broadcast on the screens in the organization room is twenty minutes behind. Ale turns on the data on his phone: Jim is in front, he took over 10 minutes from Zach and pulled away from him on the descent, Grangier remained where he was, 9 minutes behind. It took that Yankee six years to be finally in that position, but his time seems to have finally arrived. When he arrives at the aid station a roar goes up. Zach arrives a minute later, running heavier and hotter, and repeatedly dips his trucker hat into the fountain outside the refreshment area.

There are those who have already collapsed because they started too fast (all), those who trained too much (few) or too little (many), they are in front and behind the group, and there are many of them. Once the crowds of people are over, we head towards having a beer: an India Pale Ale really seems like the only way to face the next day. This year, I'll leave the night to rookies. On the other hand, I would have to travel on the organization bus and when I think about it, sleep abstinence no longer seems like a professional priority, so I drink my beer and go to sleep.

Now, to understand the story it is necessary to underline that, according to what we knew at that moment, the race was going like every other year: Americans in the lead, at least up to Courmayeur, had always been there, but waking up the next

We leave everything behind and rush to the next aid station. When we enter the tent we find D'Haene filling the water bott-

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les and preparing the refreshment table for Jim, who arrives an hour and forty minutes later, with sixteen minutes on Miller, gained in less than 10 kilometers. When Jim enters the aid station the initial roar subsides, giving way to a church-like silence, interrupted from time to time by the cheering of a galvanized Francesco Puppi.

François has red eyes and is moved, Jim is calm and inside him he is praying to every saint not to blow up: he is the one who got lost at the ninetieth mile of Western States, while he was first, with half an hour on the record. We shout at him you got it, not yet he repeats to himself. He drinks the last sip and disappears from the refreshment area, Fra and I go out from the back and start running about fifty meters away from him together with four or five other people, then only us remain. On the slightly uphill path that leads from Vallorcine to Col de Montets Jim runs at 4'04'' per kilometer, after 155 kilometers and 18 hours of racing.

and I almost struggle to keep up, in fact I'm ashamed of myself, it's crazy to be left behind by someone who's been running for 150 kilometres. There are many people on the trail watching and a couple of them, seeing the press card, stop me to ask me for updates on the race. I catch my breath for a couple of minutes and think I've lost him definitively, then the climb stops and it goes down a technical and slow path where I manage to regain visual contact. As soon as I see him, at the bottom, among the branches, I get up. When we pass the tree line we can see the position of the Flegère cable car, where the climb ends and the last descent begins. On the last ramps there are hundreds of people and it is almost difficult to pass through them. There's Billy Yang filming and his eyes are shining, I want to tell him that I'm happy for them but I keep going. Jim stops unexpectedly at the refreshment point to get water and I decide to pass him to see the finish line.

I tackle the descent at a controlled but not very slow pace, he's a couple of hundred meters behind so as soon as he gets more technical I speed up. Then I start to see the town from above, I step onto the Floria terrace and arrive in Chamonix.

On the trail an ecstatic Dylan Bowman shouts to Jim, once again you fucking got it.

Jim pulls straight, head down, long stride, low frequency. When the path ends I am alone, Francesco goes back. I would like to wait for Zach but then I realize that I don't care: I've been coming to Chamonix for years to see Jim Walmsley win, and come what may, I'll be on the finish line when it happens. So I face the climb behind him, a hundred meters away, enough to stay close to him but not enough for him to see me or hear me, so as not to bother him. On the trail there are just him and the live cameramen, and then me, a hundred meters behind.

The city explodes with people, you get the impression that there are many more Americans than usual and there are American flags everywhere. I run among people and a tear falls. I reach the arrival arch and pass the barriers reserved for the press.

There are moments that you have waited for so long that when they happen, there, a meter away from you, they don't seem real. An old movie said that it's hard not to get excited about baseball. I think that can be said of any sport, and any good story.

But one thing is certain, it's hard not to get excited about ultrarunning: the American affair is over.

We go up to 1100 meters of MAS per hour.

The new route is slightly easier than the old one, but the slopes are still prohibitive. Jim runs and swings, he releases power

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Light Lines bright but non ephemeral

BY E VA TO S C H I P H OTO S A DA M G A I R N S , T E R J E VA L E N H Ø I H J E L L E , V EG A R D A AS E N

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In order to prepare myself for the chat I was going to have with Vegard Aasen and Calumn Macintyre, the two souls of Light Lines, I immediately find myself admiring their photographic project: 10 images, 10 lines drawn in the northern darkness. One, in particular, immediately catches my attention, not so much for its diversity but rather because I have already seen it, shown on a smartphone on a very grey spring day in Lapland by Martin, one of the skiers who took part in the project. Martin started talking to me about how difficult it had been to coordinate to create the perfect shot, to get exactly what Vegard had imagined and wanted to reproduce. The "technical" part alone had fascinated me, but when, around a fire and drinking a beer in the light of the midnight sun, we started talking about the motivations and meaning that photo had, I was totally won over. For months I remained without knowing anything more (about the shot, of course) and then here I am: we meet again by chance. And if to one shot you add 9 others, equally engaging if not more, and to Martin's explanations you add the passionate words of the two creators of the project, it becomes very easy to fall in love with them. As Calumn says, but we'll talk about this as soon as possible, it only takes an instant and anything can happen.

Oh yes, also a friend, Martin. Initially I had prepared many questions to ask the photographer, Vegard, mistakenly thinking that Calumn was "only" one of the riders who had taken part in the project, but after the latter answered the first question, I immediately understood his involvement. It was Calumn who lit the spark, who made Vegard understand that with photography you could go beyond the spectacular nature of images, that you could transmit a message and shake souls, that you could politicize yourself. “Many people in the outdoor sector” Calumn tells me “are afraid of being judged if they express radical and political ideas, they are afraid of exposing themselves. I'm tired of this system based on personal guilt and on what we can do "in our own small way", we must make our worries everyone's worries, and we can only do this if together with others. We have no idea the power we have, as a community. This is why it is important to convey a message, and we have decided to do so starting from photographic art, and then going deeper through the word, written or spoken.”

They realized together the impact that a photo could have, after shooting "The Man in the Moon", a photo that Vegard took and which portrays the silhouette of Calumn inside the full moon as he climbs alone to the summit of Austabotntind. The feedback that arrived was that the photo had made us think about how small man appeared in relation to these wild spaces.

So, together with the guidance of Calumn, an environmentalist with a lot of experience and expert on climate change, Vegard takes the courage to politicize him-

So I finally find myself talking to two people who are thousands of kilometers apart but with whom I already know I share something very important: the correlation between men and nature and its expression through outdoor sport and art.

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Why did you decide to use lights as a symbol of human traces? “You're a little off track” Calumn replies “but I'll explain right away: when a politician decides to allow wilderness development, the decision is made in a split second, but the consequences are forever. The landscape will never go back to the way it was before.

self and use his voice and his art to convey a message.

“Why not take a photo of someone skiing the couloir that cuts the north face of Austabotntind in half by lighting its descent with a head-on shot and taking a long exposure shot from the mountain in front of it?” Vegard asks Calumn as they return from the shoot they had just completed on the same mountain. "I would like to immortalize a line of light that spectacularly marks the mountain, carefully balancing the bright light of the headlamp with that of the dark sky.”

But what is this message and what do 10 photos taken on 10 iconic Norwegian peaks of a descent line drawn from the headlamps of skiers mean? I immediately think of wanting to underline the traces that we leave, we human beings with our desires and vanities, in wild places. But I immediately understand that it is a superficial vision, which sees only part of the image. The subject and not the whole. So to go a little deeper the question to ask is simple: why did you decide to use lights as a symbol of human traces? “You're a little off track” Calumn replies “but I'll explain right away: when a politician decides to allow wilderness development, the decision is made in a split second, but the consequences are forever. The landscape will never go back to the way it was before. The lines of lights, immortalized with a long exposure, represent precisely those seconds, that very short period of time that can change the future of a place forever.” I find myself very fascinated by this way of interpreting, or rather choosing to communicate, the message behind these photos. I am shocked above all by knowing, and I un-

derstand this thanks to Calumn and Vegard's explanations, that the situation in Norway is not as one imagines from here.

All that glitters is not gold and their descent lights highlight this. The Norwegian wilderness is increasingly threatened by development: since 1900, around 40% of it has been sacrificed and this trend continues today to favor gondolas, hydroelectric plants and highways.

“I started to understand that there is a systemic problem in the way people value wilderness” Calumn says. “They say you don't realize what you've lost until it's gone, and that's the feeling I get in Norway, where I live now, 20 years after traveling there as a child.”

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I find that since 2014, 22.000 construction applications in protected areas have been submitted in Norway, of which 19.000 have been approved. These are giant numbers, which require equal if not greater involvement and interest to counteract.

answers. Because none of us have an answer when we think about what we can do to preserve nature and its future, which then corresponds to ours. But having doubts, asking questions is the starting point of everything.

And a photo, a word, a light that lasts a fragment of a second, can be the beginning of something destined to change everything, to distort the future, even for the better.

I ask the guys if they have ever received feedback regarding their project from Norwegian institutions and Calum replies by telling me an episode that explains a lot.

“In December 2022, Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Climate and Environment, went to this nature and climate conference in Montreal, where he spoke in favor of a project that included protecting 30% of the surface terrestrial from development. This fact gave us a lot of hope, to see that politicians could really change the state of things, so we decided to give the photo of Ringstind, the one that by all accounts made it look like a ski resort, to Espen Barth Eide for the work carried out on this agreement and to inspire him to put nature at the top of the political agenda at home too. We soon learned that when we returned home, our minister had approved a project for a highway in a nature reserve so in the end we wrote him a letter explaining that we had thought about sending him the photo but that because of what he had done we decided to auction the photo and use the proceeds to pay a lawyer to fight the construction of the highway in court.”

An impactful decision requires an equally strong reaction.

I learn a lot from talking to Calumn and Vegard, especially about what you can do with your art, how it can and should be used, and what power it has. Photography, writing, drawing can send a clear message, stir consciences and create doubts, without necessarily giving answers. Because none of us have an answer when we think about what we can do to preserve nature and its future, which then corresponds to ours.

But having doubts, asking questions is the starting point of everything.

I learn a lot from talking to Calumn and Vegard, especially about what you can do with your art, how it can and should be used, and what power it has. Photography, writing, drawing can send a clear message, stir consciences and create doubts, without necessarily giving

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A mountain with no name

BY I L A R I A C H I AVAC C I PHOTOS THOMAS MONSORNO

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The man of records went to find the unknown mountain par excellence to rediscover the taste for adventure: Dani Arnold's nameless expedition to Kazakhstan.

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1 hour, 43 minutes and 35 seconds to climb the north face of Petit Dru solo in the Mont Blanc massif from the Allain-Leininger route, 2 hours and 28 minutes to climb the Heckmair route on the North face of the Eiger, 1 hour and 46 minutes to climb Matterhorn, 2 hours and 4 minutes to climb the Cassin route, 2 hours and 4 minutes to complete the north face of Grandes Jorasses: Dani Arnold is a pusher. Swiss, mountain guide, mountains in his DNA, he is someone who loves challenges, loves records and loves free soloing: Torre Trieste, Pizzo Badile and Cima Grande di Lavaredo climbed in 46 minutes and 30 seconds are his masterpieces. If you are a mountaineer, after all, the temptation to make notches here and there, to prove that

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you are the fastest or the strongest, comes to you, but Dani Arnold also loves to explore, find routes where no one goes looking for, try his hand at difficulties of unexplored places on which there is little information in general and mountaineering in particular. He is someone who looks as much at form as substance. His last mission, which took him to Kazakhstan, was guided by a photo: white snow on red terrain, a wall that seems to come from a painter's ingenuity, shapes so bizarre as to whet his desire for discovery, for tickle the curiosity of those who look at each peak differently than everyone else would.

A place so beautiful and remote cannot remain unexplored, those peaks so poetically unfinished: this is how the missions come to

life in Arnold style, a magnetic mountaineer who is gathering around him an increasingly large community of passionate followers, but who does not get deluded by virtual audiences.

The story of this experience is above all the story of a mountaineer who, with his most trusted crew, went straight to the heart of the expedition, without feeling the need to plant flags or take ownership of a route.

I reach him on the phone in Switzerland, where he works and lives with his family «How are you?» "It's too hot." It's curious how this incipit was the leitmotif of almost all the interviews this summer. On the other

hand, mountaineers, mountain guides and mountain athletes in general are more sensitive than others to environmental issues because their lives lead them to closely observe the decay of our winters, the inexorable retreat of glaciers. «The freezing point this summer was recorded above 5000 metres: this is terrible for the environment. I'm not complaining about it just because this makes it more difficult to practice my passion, namely ice climbing, but because we are on the brink of the abyss. People are happy not to have such cold temperatures here, but the truth is that it is a tragedy for our planet.”

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Let's move on to your most recent expedition, Kazakhstan. Destination you've had in mind for a while... I would say that with this trip we took what we had done in Japan to a higher level, that is, an expedition guided by the spirit of adventure: the idea behind these projects is to find something fascinating and unknown, off the beaten track and at at the same time bring the spirit of the adventurers back into a mission. When I set out to break a speed record, or if I tackle a free solo route, I have enormous satisfaction, but the spirit of adventure is lost: there I am looking for speed or difficulty, but they are peaks

about which practically everything is know while almost nothing is known about the peaks of Kazakhstan. Thanks to my work I have been almost everywhere in the world and even remote places like Patagonia are no longer so remote for me.

I've been there eleven times and it's always a special place, but going there is no longer an adventure for me.

Speed, free solo or exploratory expeditions, what is the soul of Dani the mountaineer that best reflects you? Ice climbing! Few people know it, but my first free solo ever was on ice, in a spot near home, in Brunnital, it all started

from there and the ice remains my main passion, the one that makes me excited more than anything else.

Let's start from the beginning, what is the name of the mountain you climbed in Kazakhstan?

To tell the truth I don't think it has a name, it had never been climbed before and to be honest it all started with a photo. We were curious about its shape and so we set off, but we knew little or nothing about what we would actually find once there.

So you opened a route but you didn't give it a name? Actually no, you can choose the name if you want (lau-

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ghs). In theory, when you open a route you also have to give it a certain name, but this wasn't the point of the expedition. We went there for the experience itself and because just looking at the images is enough to realize how special that peak was, it really called us.

A special peak and little information, did everything go smoothly?

We climbed a lot, but the main problem was, precisely because there is not much information, that the quality of the rock was not what we expected, it was very soft and the wall very steep. We practically didn't use protection, due to the quality of the rock, which was ok in the lower part,

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Few people know it, but my first free solo ever was on ice, in a spot near home, in Brunnital, it all started from there and the ice remains my main passion, the one that makes me excited more than anything else. but as we got closer to the top it turned into something very close to a free solo. However, I believe that the greatest risk in this type of situation is returning home with nothing accomplished, but on the other hand if you don't try you can't know: what is certain is that the less information you have at the start, regarding the equipment to bring and what you might encounter, the more difficult it is to achieve the result. One thing that undoubtedly makes the difference is having a cohesive team like ours, made up of Martin Echser and photographer Thomas Monsorno.

You have been working with Thomas for a long time now, you are a proven team...

I would say above all that we are friends. I have a mountaineering goal and he takes photos, we certainly work hard to achieve it, I climb and he looks for the best shot, the perfect moment to shoot, but we are also interested in having fun together without the pressure of work. It's more of a "let's go there and see what we can bring home.”

Just while you were in Kazakhstan your Instagram profile broke through the 100K barrier, and now you are already at 171, how do you relate to an evergrowing community? Let's say that it's something you have to do also in relation to your profession because it gives you the opportunity to really reach a lot of people, but I can't get it out of my head that for me it's just a game, and that it has nothing to do with going to the mountains seriously.

On Instagram there is a lot of showoff also because basically that's what the public wants. For me there are two types of community: a smaller and more serious one, interested in the details of the expeditions, who are not interested in Reels, but rather want to know everything about the route or the mission, from the equipment, to the temperatures, to the difficulties and if in the second shot you held on with your right or left hand. And then there's the vast Instagram community who don't care about

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how you tackled the second shot, but are thrilled to know if your sandwich was frozen or if your banana flew out from under you. The most challenging thing for me is being able to please both of these audiences.

On the other hand, however, extending your community gives you the opportunity to send messages that are important to you, such as your thoughts about the environment, to more people... I believe this is true up to a certain point: some time ago I made a post about the ethics of mountaineering: no photos or videos, just text.

Well, that post had very few reactions, but if I post a photo of myself without a t-shirt it goes viral and I get many more likes than if I posted the same photo but with the t-shirt on.

In theory, when you open a route you also have to give it a certain name, but this wasn't the point of the expedition. We went there for the experience itself and because just looking at the images is enough to realize how special that peak was, it really called us.

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The show must go on Kristin Harila

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The record of Kristin Harila, the Norwegian mountaineer who climbed all 14 eight thousand peaks on the planet in three months and one day, is an opportunity that we must not waste to make profound reflections on the world of mountaineering, from gender equality to overexploitation of the mountains.

On July 27th 2023 Kristin Harila together with Tenjen “Lama” Sherpa reached the summit of K2, in the legendary Karakorum, at 10.45am, shattering the most divisive record in the world of mountaineering, the one achieved by Nirmal Purja for having climbed all fourteen of the planet's eight thousand peaks in six months and seven days. Harila did it in three months and one day, about half the time. If this type of mission in itself already raises many issues related to the environmental impact (given by the use of oxygen cylinders and fixed ropes, which can then no longer be removed and remain on the mountain generating pollution) this one specifically is entered the eye of the storm due to the tragic accident that led to the death of one of the sherpas involved in the mission, Muhammad Hassan.

According to what was published, Hassan, a 27-year-old Pakistani with a wife and three children, accepted the job despite not being properly equipped, having neither auxiliary oxygen nor adequate technical clothing, and in the place called the "bottleneck" of the mountain fell, or the snow collapsed beneath him, and he was seriously injured. According to Harila and his team, he received due assistance from his climbing partners, who tried in every way to save his life no matter how desperate the situation was, according to other climbers who were reaching the top of K2 that same morning, Harila and Lama Sherpa would have left the dying Hassan to his fate to continue the race towards the record, even bypassing his body.

We as a magazine do not want to go into the merits of the issue with a value judgment but, through Harila's answers, we tried to understand where contemporary mountaineering is going, perhaps increasingly closer to entertainment sport, with its pros and cons. Accidents like the one that occurred during the Harila mission are commonplace in the mountains and what really happens in these cases will never be known and, unless one has actually never climbed an eight-thousander, one will not even be able to never to have a clear picture of the context in which these things happen. The role that the survival instinct plays, for example. These are variables that cannot be ignored when handling these topics, as are the objective difficulties of an extremely dangerous situation. Death during sporting events is not a prerogative of the mountains: the media is full of athletes who do dangerous things in dangerous contexts, just think about the Grand Prix or the MotoGP, but what is different is perhaps that the type of narration is more codified and “accepted”. In the case of mountaineering expeditions there is no reporter to narrate a mission in a third-party way, but the narration is entirely entrusted to the person who is the protagonist who, in fact, is an athlete and not someone who chronicles the events for a living. Kristin Harila had the message to support through her record and her story focused on that, bypassing at least initially the question of the accident.

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by giving up the record a few hundred meters from the summit to try to save Hassan even in the face of the futility of the attempt? Probably.

And again: do all these messages that athletes feel obliged to send and the causes they want to support make sense just to make them more spendable by sponsors or will they really serve to change things in the world of mountaineering? This is a mechanism of which we are all part and from which it would be hypocritical to escape: on the one hand there are the athletes, with their ambitions and dreams, but on the other there are the brands and the media, who feed on spectacular things, risky or incredible that they manage to do, and then there are the enthusiasts, the ultimate recipients of these messages, those who ultimately have the real power, by directing their interests, to make brands, media and athletes understand if this direction the sector is taking is right or wrong.

strate it: beating Nirmal would have shouted it loud and clear.

And it’s that you thought in the moment you reached the summit and realized the record was yours? I thought that yes, I had done it and I had marked an important step for women in this world. My second thought then immediately went to "Lama", or Tenjen, the sherpa without whom all this would not have been possible. It is an important recognition not only for me, but also for Lama and for the entire sherpa community, which does a precious job that allows all mountaineers to be able to accomplish feats of this kind. It is the sherpas who place the fixed ropes and set up the base camps. I personally don't care that much about the record, but sharing it with them means a lot, plus now we can use this result to try to change something for all the girls and women in this industry, to try to make it as fair as possible. I believe it is important that there are female role models who demonstrate that certain things are possible: as we girls grow up, it is important to have someone who is similar to us to be inspired by.

Starting from the genesis of this mission, from how the idea of taking Nirmal Purja's record was born, we can have a clearer idea of the process by which athletes give shape to their exploits.

So your goal is to share a message of equality? There are many things that need to be done to make this world more equal and I believe that when we talk about it people understand what the point is and they all agree, but the reality of the facts is that for men there are more money, more products, more research, more everything. In the very advanced Norway, which is my country, men's football academies receive more money than women's ones. My goal is for girls to be given the same opportunities that guys are given. Brands are also more inclined to sponsor male athletes rather than female ones.

I was sitting in this cafe in Oslo after returning from an Everest expedition (expedition with which Kristin Harila won the women's speed record in 2021 for having climbed Everest and Lhotse in twelve hours ed.) and I was overwhelmed by this sense of profound injustice. The outdoor industry is geared towards men, especially in mountaineering: most of the big brands producing equipment of a certain type, such as suits for high altitudes, have sizes only for men, not for women. For me this underlies a clear message: mountaineering is for men, girls can go hiking if they want. This thought started to take shape right before leaving: it had been impossible for me to find technical clothing suitable for Everest that was in my size, everything was much larger than what I would have needed. Once I returned I felt the urgency to do something, and in these situations it's not enough to say "Hey, look, we are just as strong as men", we have to demon-

Yes but why Nirmal's record and not another one? I had just completed the expedition to Lhotse and Everest and it seemed like the natural continuation of that journey. With that I had already set a female record by climbing them in 12 hours (with the last expedition the time dropped to just over 8 hours), so I con-

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vinced myself that I could do it. There are probably other things I could have done to carry forward the same message, but for me it was natural to take this direction.

tains, in Tibet. So I decided to do it all again this year.

Can you quantify how many oxygen cylinders and how many meters of rope you used? For each mountain we only brought one cylinder of oxygen each, one for me and one for Lama: we usually start using oxygen between 7000 and 7500 meters above sea level, except for Everest, which is higher and so we needed two cylinder each. Usually in this kind of expeditions there is a procedure called rotation, to acclimatize: you first go to base camp one and come back down, then you go to base camp two, you go back to base camp one and sleep there and so on, bringing things up little by little.

We, on the other hand, usually go to camp one, maybe skipping camp two and going directly to camp three, and from there straight to the summit: this means that when we leave base camp we have to bring everything we need with us, and in most cases it was just me and Lama and we had to carry everything. If you consider that each cylinder weighs four kilos it is clear that we could not carry more than one each.

You often refer to brands and big players in the industry, have you ever felt the pressure, direct or indirect, from your sponsors to achieve an impressive undertaking? To tell the truth, no. I never felt pressure from my sponsors to carry out this specific project, or other projects in general, they certainly all gave me the maximum support I needed, understanding that it wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Some brands arrived first, some joined in the running, but for me the important thing is the values that I share with my sponsors: in the case of Osprey, for example, it is the commitment that the company has long had in creating specifically designed backpacks to adapt to the female body.

How much did the entire expedition cost?

One and a half million dollars spread over two years: I had already tried in 2022, when I managed to climb twelve out of fourteen eight-thousanders, I still had five weeks ahead of me to beat the record, but I hadn't obtained permission to climb the last ones two moun-

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expedition is quite divisive in the world of mountaineering, also because it encourages "tourist" expeditions on the most famous eight-thousanders... As long as the mountains are there, people will climb them: surely we need to find less invasive ways to do it. I think first of all about the helicopters, but also of all the rubbish that remains up there.

The most popular mountains are Everest and K2, on the others you don't see too many people. If you want to climb alone there are many mountains where you can do it, but on an eight-thousander is difficult to find no people.

I find that meeting other people is not a problem, because usually the tendency is to help each others and, if a group goes faster, they are let through without problems, just like if someone has problems, or runs out of oxygen, is helped.

was a tragic accident in one of the most dangerous and lethal mountains in the world: access to these mountains must be regulated, to prevent events like these from happening, there is no more time.

Do you want to give us your side of the story? It's easy to sit at home and wonder why we didn't save Muhammad, but the reality is that the conditions up there were really challenging and we did everything in our power to save him, we couldn't have done anything more. There has been false information spread and a lot of mean things said, and that's not nice at all, and I also don't think it's right that the responsibility for this accident is falling solely on me. For me it has never been a problem to tell things as they happened: we were there and we know what we did and how we did it, trying to save him for hours. But the problem is that there have been many people who have spread false information and the media has jumped on this and on hatred because it is convenient and newsworthy, but I just get insulted and threatened on a daily basis. There are at least 200 people out there threatening me, saying they will come to kill me.

I wasn't referring to the experience itself, which could be too crowded, but to the fact that the mountain gets overused... This is one of the topics I was talking about before, we have to find a way to do differently what we have always done, which is why one of the next projects I will take part in will concern precisely the aspect linked to rubbish: it will be focused both on cleaning the mountains in self and on education. The nations where the eight-thousanders are located are very poor and do not have the same awareness regarding waste, its correct disposal and recycling that we have. I believe it is our duty to involve governments and all the companies that operate here, all the sherpas and climbers who go there every day. I can't say much, but it will be a very important project and I'm sure that in the very near future we will see helicopters flying differently. I believe today I am in a position where it is easier for me to work with governments and advocate for better regulation regarding waste management, but also about who can actually be allowed to climb these types of mountains.

Anyone who does not have sufficient experience to do so should not be allowed to start climbing. The accident that happened on K2 during my expedition should never have happened. It

You are an athlete, but also a public figure, do you find it difficult to reconcile these two roles? Maybe finding yourself handling such delicate issues, such as an accident like this during a mission? When you try to set a record you certainly know that the spotlight is on you, I had my reasons for doing so and for continuing my fight for equality. I certainly wasn't prepared to answer questions dictated by hatred and all the false and bad things that were said about what happened.

In light of this, how are you planning your next adventure? I don't think that my next mission will be on an eight-thousander yet, I think I have demonstrated everything there is to demonstrate in this field, but I have other things in mind and I will certainly find something useful to carry on my battle for equality in the outdoors.

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Is it still “Mountaineering”?

Opinions, reflections, records and oxygen tanks

BY CHIARA GUGLIELMINA

Let’s take a step back.

It’s July 27th 2023, it's about 2.30 in the morning and a long line of climbers slowly moves towards the top of K2, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. The goal?

To conquer the summit. Indeed, on that very day, Norwegian mountaineer Kristin Harila achieved her feat: climbing all 14 eight-thousanders in the shortest time possible.

Three months and a day is the result of her performance. She shattered the previous record set by Nepalese Nirmal Purja (six months and six days in 2019). In a video, which has now gone viral, Muhammad Hassan can clearly be seen motionless, as if glued against the mountain wall. He had fallen shortly before, probably due to the collapse of part of the serac overlooking that exposed traverse, hitting the rock and damaging his oxygen mask. The Pakistani porter, again based on this single indisputable proof, remains defenceless while other mountaineers overtake him aiming for the summit. Harila is, at this time of writing, under accusation for failing to provide aid to a dying patient. Kristin Harila denies that, claiming that Muhammad was

instead hoisted onto the path overlooking the abyss and assisted for over an hour and a half. Due to the harsh conditions, the Norwegian mountaineer declares, doing more would have been unthinkable. Saving him was impossible.

It certainly wasn't an easy situation, almost none are easy in the high mountains. Furthermore, the bottleneck, and this must also be considered, is a real Russian roulette. It is a funnel of snow and ice which climbs straight and very steeply up the mountain to under the enormous hanging serac. A fifteen-story ice palace suspended in the air, hanging over the head of every climber who attempts the "summit push". What really happened up there is unclear. And probably, as the history of mountaineering teaches us, it will remain so forever.

Those reported are the facts exposed by the main media that covered the topic. I, and I think I can speak for the entire team at The Pill, care little about the truth. Not because we don't consider what happened to be serious, but because we are convinced that, regardless of how things went on July 27th, the problem underlying the

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tragedy must be identified and resolved elsewhere. When I was asked to write an article about it I felt the need to take some time. I wanted, as far as possible, to offer a reconstruction of the facts that was as close as possible to the truth. Furthermore, I considered it essential to consider the opinion of those who were there under that monstrous serac. Because when we talk about such delicate issues I find it absurd, and ethically questionable, to think that I have the right to express an opinion.

It's too easy to like a post on Instagram that has more than 14.000 likes.

I would like to be able to calculate the percentage of how many people, in proportion to the "success" of the post, really thought about what happened. In any case, the thing that I personally find sad is the ability of similar news to vanish into thin air.

Controversy breaks out and accusations are made. Sometimes, thank goodness, serious measures are also taken, but then what goes down in history and remains in the collective memory is the success. Always the same.

I wonder if what I am part of is now a humanity incapable of growing while

I've heard all sorts of things in recent weeks: "At those altitudes, at that point in the climb, nothing more could have been done." … “An obscene fact, I don't know if that guy could have been saved, but I certainly would have tried." … “I think it would have been very difficult to save Hassan.”

carrying on its shoulders the weight of everything that "could have been done better".

It seems to be easier to follow the social media algorithm and spend twenty, maximum thirty seconds to build an opinion, express your opinion with a double tap on the screen or with a four-line comment, and settle the matter in the time in which you finish breakfast or flush the bathroom. It is naturally a question that goes beyond the tragedy on K2, but I believe it is fundamental, for something to change, to question ourselves starting from these toxic dynamics. And inhumane.

Speaking with a dear friend, among others, the issue of the "World Cup of shame" in Qatar came up. Since 2010, in the Arabian peninsula, at least 6500 people who immigrated from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died at work to build eight stadiums in which to play a handful of matches. And again, in this case too, rivers of controversy and complaints about unacceptable working conditions, as is right. But sadly in the end, dead people are dead people. And collective memory only remembers Messi's goals and

Argentina raising the Cup to the skies for the third time in history.

What will remain of Muhammad Hassan, regardless what was right and what was wrong? He died doing his job, ignored, injured and without oxygen, regardless all the crazy records of the last few years? What I personally cannot tolerate is the indifference, self-centeredness and superficiality with which we abandon people, the ability to turn our heads the other way without asking questions or, worse, thinking that someone else will take care of it. This is what really hurts me, honestly. Not only if we talk about mountains, but above all if we talk about mountains.

When I was a child, my grandfather let us carve wood in the small village square where he spent the summer, next to his cabin. There was only one good knife and deciding who would use it was simple for us children. We had to climb up a steep slope that led into the darkness of the woods and the first person to touch the trunk of the lowest beech tree had the right to use the knife for the entire afternoon. I have always been fascinated by a child who, after the first thirty meters of running, despite being in the

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lead, turned to check that no one, not even the slowest, slipped on the damp roots and rolled to the base. And my grandfather, every evening, after putting us all to bed, sharpened the blade of the knife and taught Filippo, only him, to carve wood. At twelve years old it wasn't very clear to me why, but I felt it was the right thing to do.

Today I have the feeling that, when faced with a human being reduced to a sacrificial victim in favor of the success of another, there is not only silent assent, but total blindness. As if such a mechanism of abuse of everything is not only accepted, but is even considered normal. Nothing more than regular and daily administration.

So, the question is: Where are we going? As mountaineers and as human beings? What forms will mountaineering and the mountains as a whole take in the coming years?

It was hard to write about that. It seems unseemly to me. But I hope that the authoritative opinions of Hervé, Gnaro and Michele, mountain people before becoming mountaineers, as well as K2 climbers, can contribute to changing the way of going to the mountains and, why not, of seeing life and our attitude towards them.

Hervé Barmasse ALPINISTA - GUIDA ALPINA - SOCCORRITORE

What happened on K2 is nothing new and what can be seen in the video is unfortunately all true, cruel, and even worse, it is something that has been happening for years. This is demonstrated by the many corpses scattered here and there on the normal routes of the 14 eight-thousanders.

Perhaps the difference between the incidents that occurred before this summer and the one of Hassan, the thing that is most striking, is that objectively, the ones who climbed over the exhausted body of the Pakistani porter, were a sufficient number of people in order to attempt a rescue.

There is no doubt about this. A mountaineer must show humanity and compassion, altruism and generosity always, at any altitude and on any mountain, otherwise he or she is not a mountaineer.

are worth fighting for, believing in, living for. We think that happiness is hidden behind success and money and we are willing to sacrifice everything, even what we say we love like, for example, the mountains. This is demonstrated by mass Himalayan mountaineering, a clear consequence of wrong choices. Outdoor companies, professional climbers and mountain guides have continued to sell the normal eight-thousander routes as the greatest adventure one can experience. Yet, it hasn't been for some time. The fact is that in the mountaineering of the future, if we still want to talk about mountaineering, the difference will increasingly be made by "how". Because it doesn't matter where you go, the altitude or the summit you reach, but how you got there. If you have done it with respect, both for the people you meet and for the mountain, without leaving a trace of your passage, you will be a winner in the mountains and in life.

Today we live in a society stingy with humanity, values and ethics. We are "empty children of the overflow" and we are no longer able to distinguish the things that

The fact is that in the mountaineering of the future, if we still want to talk about mountaineering, the difference will increasingly be made by "how". Because it doesn't matter where you go, the altitude or the summit you reach, but how you got there.

If you have done it with respect, both for the people you meet and for the mountain, without leaving a trace of your passage, you will be a winner in the mountains and in life.

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Silvio Mondinelli MOUNTAINEER - MOUNTAIN GUIDE - RESCUER

First of all I want to say that I was not present. I know one thing though: the friends I have had in the mountains have always given up or, in any case, attempted the same peak several times in order to dedicate themselves to helping others.

You will never know if you will bring home the wounded or the dead, but you will have tried anyway and you will have to keep trying. Always. It must also be said, we must be honest, that most of those who go to the Himalayas today are not mountaineers. Last year I was on Makalu, for example, and there were four girls who changed three times a day, they looked like photo models, not mountain climbers. In the past when I went to the mountains "women had moustaches".

Now the first thing you want, and this is a general discussion, is internet, and a minimum connection to be able to put your photos on Instagram. Therefore, this is no longer mountaineering. Himalayas is now very popular with people who have great financial resources, but who have nothing to do with mountaineering. Even all those who go to Capanna Margherita in the summer on Monte Rosa are not mountaineers. Maybe not even hikers. I'm sorry to say this, and I hope no one gets offended, but that’s the truth. The values who once existed in the mountains are very rare today. However, it must be said that in those places, like the Bottleneck, naturally a lot more energy is needed to carry out a serious rescue operation. But in short, when there are many people like in that case, they have to try. However, I just can't understand these records. What re-

cord is there with fifty Sherpas and plenty of oxygen tanks? This spring, on Everest, we went up and down directly to Camp 2 because many said that the Icefall passage was dangerous. If it's dangerous, just stay at home. It's like someone who likes to race a motorbike, but doesn't go to races because it's dangerous to go at 350 kilometers per hour. So just don’t to that kind of stuff, but be honest and say that you’re not able to do that. The issue, however, is that it seems to me that certain values, in everything we do, have vanished. Maybe I'm getting old, but it's not normal that almost all customers, when they arrive at Margherita, the first thing they want is a photo to put on Instagram or Facebook.

For athletes, then, this system is a disaster.

Because for sponsors, photos on personal social profiles now seem to have more value than a good result in the World Cup. It's the whole system that doesn't work.

Well, we’re losing it. Some sponsors told me that it's not so good that I only have thirty friends on Instagram. I replied that I don't have any friends, I only look at the beautiful landscape photos that someone posts, but I don't give my friendship to anyone because I'm not interested. I have real friends and I don't need to look for others there. However, I believe in education. It was said of my generation that we were slackers and yet, while I only did eight-thousanders, others did a mountain of valid things. Therefore, it is right to believe in young people. But, above all, in those who educate them. Because it is education, in life, that makes the difference.

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Michele Cucchi M O U N TA I N E E R - M O U N TA I N G U I D E - R E S C U E R

First I would like to address the ethical issue of the topic. I don't agree with the philosophy of these commercial expeditions that follow the logic of "I pay, so I have to get to the top". This, in my humble opinion, means killing the ethics that for decades have ensured that mountaineers, who are something else entirely, reached the top of the most beautiful and highest mountains in the world. Ethics, for me, means never letting someone behind.

And what was seen on K2 recently, I am sure, has done a lot of harm to the world of mountaineering. I know the Bottleneck well, with its mocking traverse and, honestly, I have never found myself in such a difficult situation, in such a challenging place. I hope, however, that if I ever find myself in a similar circumstance, I can be lucid enough to be able to say: “Okay, enough. There is someone in need and, now, we must do everything necessary to save his or her life.”

Himalayas. Anyone who has been in the mountains of Pakistan knows the problem well. It must be said that, compared to the Nepalese people who have enjoyed the exponential growth of expeditions to improve, the Pakistanis have not had the same development opportunities. Because in Nepal, in the past, things were much slower while now, even there, everything runs at a frenetic pace. And if more and more Pakistanis, as I hope, will be working for expeditions, they must be able to recover the lost ground by making up for their lack of training, preparation, experience and equipment.

Last, regarding what happened, I want to say that everyone is free to experience the mountains as they prefer. However, this desire to make world premieres by paying very high prices, both from an environmental and, sometimes, human point of view, is something that I do not share and do not understand. Mountaineering must still be exploration, it must still be adventure and it must be much less media, news, records and so on. I don't want to say any more words on this topic because it's a world that doesn't belong to me and that I probably don't know enough about. I don't want to speak out of turn. But I can add one thing: I don't think that catapulting pure and simple sporting performance, with the mere aim of conquering yet another peak in a certain amount of time, is the right dimension for what the world of mountains, adventure and exploration is.

The second and very important topic concerns the necessary growth of Pakistani high altitude porters, from several points of view. That is their land, those are their mountains, much more should be done to offer them the real possibility of living on those same lands. This means, first of all, giving them a hand in facing the very high altitude in the best possible way, with the best equipment and with the best possible knowledge to allow them to work safely. Exactly as we do in the Alps, in our job as mountain guides, or as Sherpas do in Nepal, in their work as porters in the

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ITA BIKE SPORT ADVENTURE ITA RIDERS ACTION ITA SALEWA OUTLET ENNA ITA STILE LIBERO ITA BOULDER & CO SALEWA OUTLET PALMANOVA ITA ITA PEAK LAND ITA ALAGNA OUTDOOR ITA BASE CAMP ITA BORDINO FRANCO ITA KING BOARD SHOP ALBA ITA MOUNTAIN HOME ITA KING BOARDSHOP ITA SPORTLER ALBIGNASEGO ITA ARCO SPORT ITA KEVOLUTIONS ITA SPORTRAGE ITA C.ELLE SPORT ITA SPORT HUB ALMENNO ITA ACTIVITY PEOPLE ITA ALPSTATION ANDALO ITA FOTO SPORT BANAL ITA SPORTLAND ANTEGNATE ALPINE WORLD SHOP & GUIDES ITA ITA ALPSTATION AOSTA 2.0 ITA CLAUDESPORT ITA CRAZY BY VERTICAL ITA MEINARDI SPORT ITA SALEWA AOSTA ITA SWIT SHOP ITA GAL SPORT ITA JOE SPORT ITA EVIVA SPORT ITA LARINO ALBINO ITA ALPSTATION ARCO ITA ARCO CLIMBING ITA ART ROCK ITA CLIMBING VILLAGE ITA G ARCO ITA KARPOS STORE ARCO ITA LA SPORTIVA ARCO ITA OLIUNÌD ARCO ITA RED POINT 1 ITA RED POINT 2 ITA ROCK & ICE ARCO ITA SALEWA ARCO ITA VERTICAL WORLD SPORT ITA GOBBI SPORT ITA RED POINT 2 (MABB 90) ITA VERTICAL SPORT ARCO ITA THE NORTH FACE ARESE ITA ALPSTATION AREZZO ITA PRATI DEL VALLONE ITA BALLONI SPORT ITA CLIMBAP ITA EXUM ITA MASTER SPORT PESAVENTO MOUNTAIN STORE ITA ITA SPORTLAND ASOLA ITA UNY STORE ITA RRTREK GRAN SASSO ITA MATIS SPORT ITA ALPSTATION LAVAREDO ITA DEGNI SPORT ITA BSHOP AVIGLIANA ITA TREKKING SPORT ITA FINISH LINE ITA SALEWA OUTLET MANTOVA ITA AFFARI & SPORT BALLABIO ITA TONINO SPORT ITA CENTRO ROSSIGNOL ITA ZEROQUATTRO ITA CARAVELLA SCOUT ITA IMPACT SHOP ITA LA SORGENTE ITA MAROCCO SPORT ITA ALE’S SURF SHOP ITA ALPSTATION BASSANO ITA DF SPORT SPECIALIST ITA MAZZARONA SPORT ITA ROBI SPORT ITA SU E GIU' SPORT ITA B-STORE ITA CAI BERGAMO ITA GREAT ESCAPES BERGAMO ITA LANDI SPORTS ITA MARCO SPORT SERVICE DF SPORT SPECIALIST BEVERA ITA ITA BIBOSPORT BIELLA ITA FABBRICA SKI SISES BIELLA ITA FRANCO SPORT ITA IL GALLO ITA NUOVI ORIZZONTI BOLOGNA ITA PATAGONIA BOLOGNA ITA THE NORTH FACE BOLOGNA ITA VILLA 1928 ITA CMP BOLZANO ITA MONTURA BOLZANO ITA MOUNTAINSPIRIT ITA SALEWA WORLD BOLZANO ITA SPORTLER BOLZANO ITA THE NORTH FACE BOLZANO ITA CAVALLO CENTRO SPORT ITA MASSI SPORT ITA TEMPO LIBERO ITA FLOWER ITA CRAZY STORE BORMIO ITA MOUNTAIN & RUNNING ITA PATAGONIA BORMIO ITA SKI TRAB ITA CELSO SPORT SHOP ITA G2 SPORT ITA BLOCCO MENTALE ITA FRISCO SHOP ITA GIALDINI ITA MAD CLIMBERS PALESTRA ITA MINOIA STORE ITA ROMEO SPORT ITA ROSSIGNOL BRESCIA ITA SPORTLAND BRESCIA ITA KLEON SPORT ITA SPORTLER BRESSANONE ITA BERTHOD SPORT ITA MOUNTAIN SHOP CERVINIA ITA TOP ONE ITA UAINOT MOUNTAIN SHOP ITA ALPSTATION BRUNICO ITA OUTFIT SPORT MODE ITA PATAGONIA BRUNICO SPORT MODE SCHOENHUBER ITA ITA SPORTLER ALPIN BRUNICO ITA SPORTLER BRUNICO ITA THOMASER ITA ESSERRE ITA EMMECI BOARD & ACTION ITA STILE ALPINO ITA SPORTLER CALALZO ITA VERTICAL SPORT SARCHE ITA NENCINI SPORT ITA PROROCK MOUNTAIN STORE ITA BIG AIR ITA MOUNTAIN SHOP TUBRIS ITA AMPLATZ SPORT ITA DETOMAS SHOP ITA DROP LINE ITA RIGHTFEELING ITA SPORT AMPLATZ ITA NUOVA MIAR SPORT ITA PUNTO RUNNING ITA RADAELLI SPORT ITA BIG WALL ITA NUOVI ORIZZONTI CARPI ITA THE NORTH FACE CARUGATE UNDER ARMOUR CAROSELLO ITA ITA CAMPO BASE BERGAMO ITA MANCINI ITA MANCINI STORE ITA SPORTLAND

ADRANO AFFI AGIRA AGORDO AGRATE BRIANZA AIELLO DEL FRIULI ALA DI STURA ALAGNA VALSESIA ALAGNA VALSESIA ALBA ALBA ALBA ALBA ALBIGNASEGO ALESSANDRIA ALESSANDRIA ALESSANDRIA ALLEGHE ALMENNO SAN SALVATORE ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANTEGNATE AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA AOSTA APPIANO APRICA ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARCO ARESE AREZZO ARGENTERA ASCOLI PICENO ASCOLI PICENO ASCOLI PICENO ASCOLI PICENO ASIAGO ASOLA ASOLA ASSERGI ATINA AURONZO DI CADORE AVEZZANO AVIGLIANA AVIGLIANA BADIA POLESINE BAGNOLO SAN VITO BALLABIO BALME BARDONECCHIA BARDONECCHIA BARI BARI BARZIO BARZIO BASSANO DEL GRAPPA BASSANO DEL GRAPPA BELLINZAGO LOMBARDO BELLUNO BELLUNO BELVEDERE BERGAMO BERGAMO BERGAMO BERGAMO BERGAMO BEVERA DI SIRTORI BIELLA BIELLA BIELLA BOLOGNA BOLOGNA BOLOGNA BOLOGNA BOLOGNA BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BORGO SAN DALMAZZO BORGO SAN DALMAZZO BORGOSESIA BORGOSESIA BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BRA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESCIA BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BREUIL CERVINIA BREUIL CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BUSTO ARSIZIO CADREZZATE CAGLIARI CALALZO CALAVINO CALENZANO CAMAIORE CAMERANO CAMPO TURES CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANELLI CANTÙ CANZO CARMAGNOLA CARPI CARUGATE CARUGATE CARVICO CASTEL DI SANGRO CASTEL DI SANGRO CASTEL GOFFREDO

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ALPSTATION BISMANTOVA ITA CRAZY STORE CASTIONE ITA OLGA SPORT ITA LA SPORTIVA STORE CAVALESE ITA LARCHER SPORT ITA UN SESTO ACCA - 1/6H ITA FREETIME ITA MAXI SPORT CERNUSCO ITA MAXI SPORT MERATE ITA CERVINIA 2001 ITA SPORTS CENTER TEAM ITA ALTA QUOTA TORINO ITA AREA 41 ITA BASE CAMP SSD ITA WHITE REEF ITA PASSSPORT CESIOMAGGIORE ITA DELFINO SPORT ITA FRACHEY SPORT ITA MARISPORT X-TREME ITA ROUTE RAMEY 33 ITA SKI SPORT HOUSE ITA ZECCHIN SPORT ITA SPORTLAND CHIARI ITA L'ARTE DI SALIRE IN ALTO ITA ASPORT’S MOUNTAIN CHIES ITA MAIUK SPORT ITA OLLIE ITA RADICAL SPOT ITA SALEWA SONDRIO ITA JEANNOT SPORT ITA GRIMPEUR ITA CPR FREE SPORT ITA MOLINARI SPORT ITA ALCHYMYA ITA ALPSTATION CLES ITA MOUNTAIN SHOP CLES ITA SALEWA CLES ITA SPORT EVOLUTION ITA LOVE BOARD ITA LE PARADIS DES SPORTS ITA CASEROTTI SPORT ITA BETTINESCHI SPORT ITA SPORT PESCOSTA ITA SPORT POSCH ITA PRANTNER ITA SPORT LIFE ITA MAURIZIO SPORT ITA ASPORT’S MOUNTAIN ITA VISONÀ SPORT ITA SPORTMARKET ITA CRAZY BOARD ITA SNOWYSUMMIT ITA DUE & DUE CORTINA ITA FREERIDE HOUSE ITA LA COOPERATIVA DI CORTINA ITA MILLET SHOP ITA MOROTTO SPORTS EQUIPMENT ITA QUOTA 1224 ITA THE NORTH FACE CORTINA ITA BOARDERLINE ITA CORTINA 360 ITA LA SPORTIVA CORTINA ITA PATAGONIA CORTINA ITA ROCK & ICE CORTINA ITA SALEWA CORTINA ITA TECNICA OLYMPIA ITA SPORT ALFREDO ITA SPORT KOSTNER ITA 360 SLIDE SHOP ITA 4810 SPORT ITA ARDI SPORT ITA LA SPORTIVA COURMAYEUR ITA LES PYRAMIDES ITA NOLO COURMA SKI SHOP ITA PATAGONIA COURMAYEUR ITA POINT DU SPORT ITA ULISSE SPORT ITA OLIUNÌD VICENZA ITA ALPSTATION CUNEO ITA BIGUP ITA CRAZY BY VERTICAL ITA SALEWA CUNEO ITA SNOWTIME ITA THE NORTH FACE CUNEO ITA VIALE CALZATURE ITA WILD FREE ITA NOCH SHOP ITA FALETTI MOUNTAIN STORE ITA DF SPORT SPECIALIST ITA MOUNTAIN GARAGE ITA OUTSIDER ITA KRALER SPORT ITA SALEWA DOBBIACO ITA ALPSTATION BRIANZA ITA GVM SHOP ITA MOSONI SPORT ITA POSSA SPORT ITA RE-SKI ITA SPORT EXTREME ITA ERCOLE ITA TONY SPORT ITA MORGAN AIR ITA OUTDOOR & TREKKING STORE ITA HOLIDAY SPORT ITA TWENTY FIVE ITA SPIT SPORT OUTDOOR ITA IL DADO BOULDER ITA LINEA VERTICALE ITA PENNENTE OUTDOOR ITA ALPMANIA ITA DEVA WALL ITA ERREGI SPORT ITA MOUNTAIN LAB ITA CRAZY STORE FINALE LIGURE ITA LA SPORTIVA FINALE LIGURE ITA MONTURA FINALBORGO ITA OLIUNÌD FINALE ITA OUTPOST MONTAINEERING ITA RIDE & RUN CRAZY STORE ITA ROCKSTORE ITA SALEWA FINALE LIGURE ITA CLIMB ITA DREAMSTORE ITA NEVERLAND ITA PESCI CAMPING STORE ITA SPORT CLUB ITA THE NORTH FACE FIRENZE ITA OBIETTIVO MONTAGNA ITA BALANTE SPORT ITA QUERIO ERNESTO ITA CAPO NORD ITA GIMELLI ITA 3.30 RUNNING STORE ITA ROSSIGNOL FORMIGLIANA ITA SNOWGANG ITA FREES SPORT ITA SPORTIFICATION ITA SICCARDI SPORT ITA SURF SHOP ITA BOARDER KING ITA SPORT MAX ITA OTKBOARD ITA ALL4CYCLING ITA BM SPORT ITA BONI SPORT ITA BONI SPORT ITA BOULDER FACTORY ITA CENTRO CANOA ITA HOBBY SPORT ITA MOISMAN ITA REPETTO SPORT ITA SALEWA GENOVA ITA SPINNAKER ITA A&F COMPANY ITA MONTAGNARD SPORT ITA BIG STONE ITA SONEGO ITA RUNNING LIFE ITA WIPE OUT ITA SPORTWAY GRAVELLONA ITA RICCARDO SPORT ITA DAVID “3” SPORT ITA BERGLAND ITA SPORT-GESCHAFT ITA SPORT-GESCHAFT ITA 099 OUTDOOR ITA PLANET RIDER ITA KAFFEKLUBBEN ITA SPORTLAND GUSSAGO ITA MARESPORT ITA QUIKSILVER STORE IMPERIA ITA GRAZIA SPORT ISEO ITA ALPSTATION ISERA ITA ALTA QUOTA ISERNIA ITA 38° PARALLELO ITA SPORTING HOUSE ITA MOUNTAINWORLD ITA BLOCKLAND ITA LELE SHOP ITA SALEWA AQUILA ITA TREKKING L’AQUILA ITA 156 ORNELLA SPORT ITA SPORT 203 ITA

CASTELNOVO NE’ MONTI CASTIONE ANDEVENNO CATANIA CAVALESE CAVARENO CAZZAGO CENCENIGHE AGORDINO CERNUSCO LOMBARDONE CERNUSCO LOMBARDONE CERVINIA CERVINIA CESANA TORINESE CESENA CESENA CESENA CESIOMAGGIORE CETO CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHÂTILLON CHIAMPO CHIARI CHIAVARI CHIES D'ALPAGO CHIESA VALMALENCO CHIETI CHIOGGIA CHIURO CHIUSA DI PESIO CIRIÈ CISANO SUL NEVA CIVEZZANO CLAUT CLES CLES CLES CLUSONE CODROIPO COGNE COGOLO COLERE COLFOSCO COLFOSCO IN BADIA COLLALBO COLOMBIERA MOLICCIARA CONDINO CORDENONS CORNEDO CORNUDA CORRIDONIA CORRIDONIA CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA COTRONEI COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR CREAZZO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO CUNEO DARFO BOARIO DARFO BOARIO TERME DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESIO DIMARO FOLGARIDA DOBBIACO DOBBIACO DOLZAGO DOMODOSSOLA DOMODOSSOLA DOMODOSSOLA DOMODOSSOLA DOMODOSSOLA DUEVILLE ENTRACQUE EUPILIO FAENZA FALCADE FALZES FANO FELTRE FELTRE FERMO FERRARA FERRARA FERRARA FIDENZA FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FINALE LIGURE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIRENZE FIUMALBO FOGLIZZO FORLÌ FORLÌ FORMIGINE FORMIGLIANA FORNO DI ZOLDO FOSSALTA DI PIAVE FOSSANO FRABOSA SOTTANA FRABOSA SOTTANA FRAZIONE DAOLASA COMMEZZADURA FROSSASCO GALGAGNANO GAZZADA SCHIANNO GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GENOVA GIANICO GIAVENO GIULIANOVA GODEGA SANT'URBANO GRADISCA D’ISONZO GRADO GRAVELLONA TOCE GRESSAN GRESSONEY SAINT JEAN GRESSONEY-SAINT-JEAN GRESSONEY-SAINT-JEAN GRESSONEY-SAINT-JEAN GROSSETO GROSSETO GUASTALLA GUSSAGO IMPERIA IMPERIA ISEO ISERA ISERNIA IVREA IVREA L'AQUILA L’AQUILA L’AQUILA L’AQUILA L’AQUILA LA THUILE LA VALLE AGORDINA

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SPORT TONY IMPULS SPORT ADRI SPORT AFFARI & SPORT LECCO GREAT ESCAPES LECCO INUA SPIRIT SPORT HUB LECCO INUA SPIRIT MY WALL BRUMA ON THE BEACH EAST WIND BOTTERO SKI BOTTERO SKI WE RIDE ZONE DF SPORT SPECIALIST LISSONE MAXI SPORT LISSONE CENTRO HOBBY SPORT CRAZY STORE LIVIGNO I’M SPORT LAPPONIA MOUNTAIN PLANET MOUNTAIN RIDERS SIFED MTR LIVIGNO PUNTO SPORT SILENE SPORT SPORT EXTREME THE NORTH FACE LIVIGNO SPORT ADVENTURE ZINERMANN SPORTING HOASY NENCINI SPORT SALEWA OUTLET SCALO MILANO GRINGO SHOP SPORTLAND LONATO SALEWA LONGARONE SPORTLIFEE IL CAMPIONE LUCCA SPORT PROFESSIONAL PROSHOP VIVISPORT CRESPI SPORT SPORT MODE STEGER RABOGLIATTI SPORT OLIMPIONICO SPORT SPORT 3 TRE THE GARDEN ZEBRA SNOWBOARD SCHOOL DODI’S ON SIDE SPORT TENNE CINQUE TERRE TREKKING PEIRANO SPORT JANE SPORT SPORTIME MUD AND SNOW DALL’ORSO STORE BOARDRIDER QUIKSILVER PIPE PRO SHOP BREMA SPORT MEGA INTERSPORT MOUNTAIN STORE HARLEM MELEGNANO THE REVIVE CLUB FAKIE TECH SHOP HUTTER SPORT SPORTLER ALPIN MERANO SPORTLER MERANO MAXI SPORT MERATE SFIDA 2.0 NARDELLI SPORT SNOWBOARDMANIA ALPSTATION MILANO BURTON STORE MILAN CANADA GOOSE MILAN CARTON DAMENO SPORT DF SPORT SPECIALIST DON KENYA RUN FRISCO SHOP MILANO KIM FORNITURE SCOUT KOALA SPORT LA MONTAGNA SPORT MANGA CLIMBING MISSION OLIUNÌD MILANO LORETO PATAGONIA MILANO RUNAWAY SALEWA MILANO SAVE THE DUCK MILANO SAVE THE DUCK MILANO SEASE SPORTING SAN LORENZO THE NORTH FACE MILANO UNDER ARMOUR MILANO UNDER ARMOUR MILANO VERDE PISELLO VIBRAM MILANO WHY RUN PLEASURES RADICAL FREE SOLO EXTREME NUOVI ORIZZONTI MODENA THE NORTH FACE MODENA LIVIO SPORT SPORTMAN THIRD GENERATION HELLWEGER INTERSPORT SPORTLAND MONIGA PATAGONIA MONTEBELLUNA ROSSIGNOL MONTEBELLUNA SALEWA OUTLET MONTEBELLUNA VIBRAM MONTEBELLUNA ROCK & WALLS PURE NATURE WILD PROJECT THE CHANGE PATAGONIA MORBEGNO STILE ALPINO MORBEGNO WHATSALP SPORT HUB MORI MICARELLI STORE LAB8 ARBITER UNTERHOLZNER GRANDE GRIMPE PERICO SPORT ETNA WALL SERVOLARE 17 RUNWAY SPORT SPORT LAURIN ALBY SPORT CLINICA DELLO SPORT DF SPORT SPECIALIST OLGIATE DF SPORT SPECIALIST ORIO SALEWA ORIO CENTER THE NORTH FACE ORIO UNDER ARMOUR ORIO AL SERIO MAMMUT ORTISEI SPORT GARDENA SPORT SCHMALZ SPORTLAND ORZINUOVI FREE TIME STORE SPORTLAND OSPITALETTO BIG WALL ABBÀ INTERSPORT DECA SPORT HOBBIT SHOP LA COCCINELLA ACTIVE CREMA SPORT INTELLIGHENZIA PROJECT OLIUNÌD PADOVA SALEWA PADOVA SESTOGRADO SPORTLAND PALAZZOLO GENCHI SPORT PER CORRERE PELLISSIER SPORT PIRCHER GUENTHER 46° PARALLELO ALPSTATION PARMA ALTERNATIVE SHOP FREE SPORT MOVE MOUNTAIN LOVERS MOVE MOUNTAIN LOVERS PARMA SPORT SEVEN SUMMITS FERRARI SPORT SPORTWAY NOVARA OLIUNÌD MILANO MONDO VERTICALE SPAZIOUTDOOR PAPER SURF ALTA QUOTA PESCARA KING LINE MAKAI SURFSHOP STELLA ALPINA FRANCO SPORT RRTREK PESCASSEROLI DF SPORT SPECIALIST PIACENZA EIGHT SIX L'ALTROSPORT OUTLANDERS

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LA VILLA LANA LAVENO-MOMBELLO LECCO LECCO LECCO LECCO LEGNANO LEVATA LIDO DI TARQUINIA LIGNANO PINETA LIMONE PIEMONTE LIMONE PIEMONTE LIMONE PIEMONTE LIMONE PIEMONTE LISSONE LISSONE LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVORNO LIVORNO LOCATE DI TRIULZI LODI LONATO LONGARONE LOVER LUCCA LUCCA LUCCA LUINO LUTAGO MACUGNAGA MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MAGIONE MALÈ MALLES MANAROLA MANTA MANTOVA MANTOVA MARANO SUL PANARO MARGHERA MARIA DI PIETRASANTA MARINA DI RAVENNA MARTELLAGO MARTIGNACCO MATELICA MELEGNANO MEOLO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERATE MESENZANA MEZZOLOMBARDO MEZZOLOMBARDO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MILANO MIRANO MODENA MODENA MODENA MOENA MONDOVÌ MONDOVÌ MONGUELFO MONIGA MONTEBELLUNA MONTEBELLUNA MONTEBELLUNA MONTEBELLUNA MONTESACRO MONTESILVANO MONTESILVANO MORBEGNO MORBEGNO MORGEX MORI MUCCIA NAGO TORBOLE NAPOLI NATURNO NEMBRO NEMBRO NICOLOSI NICOLOSI NOICATTARO NOVA LEVANTE NOVALESA OCCHIEPPO INFERIORE 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 OULX OULX OVINDOLI OVINDOLI PADOVA PADOVA PADOVA PADOVA PADOVA PADOVA PALAZZOLO SULL’OGLIO PALERMO PALERMO PAQUIER PARCINES PARMA PARMA PARMA PARMA PARMA PARMA PARMA PAVULLO NEL FRIGNANO PERGINE VALSUGANA PERNATE PERO PERUGIA PERUGIA PESARO PESCARA PESCARA PESCARA PESCARA PESCASSEROLI PESCASSEROLI PIACENZA PIACENZA PIACENZA PIACENZA

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HOBBY SPORT SPORT IN MONTAGNA OUTDOOR LIFE TOMMY SPORT VERTICAL SPORT PIANETA SPORT ASPORTSTATION STIMM ZAMBERLAN ARIAPERTA M.C.RUNNING MIRAFIORI SPORT 2 ONBOARD EUROSPORT FINDY SHOP SPORT HUB PINZOLO SPORTLAND PISOGNE DREAMSTORE SELMI TECHNOSPORT VALLEE SPORT PEAK PERFORMANCE STORE AMORINI OUTDOOR SPORTWAY PONTE KAPPAEMME SPORT MOUNTAIN SHOP BERGAMO SPORTLER PORDENONE TOFFOLI SPORT BOARD ROOM MIVAL SPORT BUGS SHOPS LA SPORTIVA POZZA DI FASSA BLOSSOM SKI DEKA UPPER IL CAMPIONE PRATO RUNOUT 3RD GENERATION VIGLIETTI SPORT SALEWA PREDAZZO V10 OFFTRACK CENTER BERGFUCHS MORASSI ETTORE OUTDOOR & TREKKING STORE ROSSIGNOL UDINE REGGIO GAS A1 CLIMBING GINETTO SPORT SURF PARADISE MONTAGNA DIMENSIONE SALVATORI SPORT POLLO WINTER SPORT THE NORTH FACE RIMINI PERTINGER MOUNTAIN SICKS VERTICAL SPORT RIVAROLO VERTICAL SPORTSWEAR SPORT NATURA ALP3 MONTAGNA ALTA QUOTA ROMA CAMPO BASE ROMA CAMPO BASE ROMA CLIMBER STORE GEOSTA KAHUNA LBM SPORT MIZUNO ROMA MONTURA ROMA ONERACE OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE PATAGONIA ROMA ROCK IT ROSSIGNOL PARMA RRTREK ROMA STAR WALL THE NORTH FACE THE NORTH FACE ROMA THE NORTH FACE ROMA URBANSTAR WP OSTIENSE CITY BEACH OMNIA SPORT SPORTLAND RONCADELLE REKORD SHERPA ATLANTE MONTELLO FRONTSIDE BLOCK3 CABAS SPORT MAKALU' SPORT MONTURA ROVERETO 100 - ONE SPORTLIFEE SPORT JOCHER MACIACONI ANIMA SPORTIVA PIÙ SPORT ALPSTATION AOSTA MG MOUNTAIN CISALFA SPORT AOSTA PAPIN SPORT SPORT HOLZER LAGAZOI SPORT SPORT HUB CHIAVENNA MILESI SPORT SPORTLAND SAN LEONARDO GODI SPORT SPORTLER SAN MARTINO TURNOVER SPORT SAN MARTINO SPORT SLALOM SLALOM SPORT SNOWBOARD'S HOUSE PARETI WEGER UNICO SPORT ALPSTATION BRESCIA NEW VIAGGIANDO GIUGLAR LAB IS SPORT GI-SPORT KRATTER FAMA SPORT OLIVER SKI ALPSTATION SARZANA KAU KAU 3.30 RUNNING STORE FRESH FARM 3SIXTY BESSON SPORT FAURE SPORT GIUGGIA SPORT PATTY SPORT MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE AREA51 CLIMBING CENTER SWITCH SHOP LORI SPORT ALPSTATION SCHIO MAX SPORT VALLI SPORT PIANETA CICLO ART CLIMB PALESTRA BRUNO SPORT ACTIV SPORT SPORT WALTER BOARD STYLE CABOT COVE OUTDOOR CAFÈ SALEWA OUTLET SERRAVALLE HOT ICE SNOWBOARD KINIGER SPORTMODE MAXI SPORT SESTO S.G. TABACCHERIA BIOLCHINI MARCELLIN SPORT PASSET SPORT SPORT LE TORRI SURF SHOPPE XL MOUNTAIN IL MARATONETA SPORT RONDIRO PASSSPORT SIGNORESSA SPORTLER CLIMBING CENTER SPORTLER TREVISO DF SPORT SPECIALIST SIRTORI ALTERNATIVA SPORT ALPIN SPORT MODE ALPIN SPORTS K&K SPORTS SALEWA OUTLET VERONA CENTRO SPORT FIORELLI SPORT SONDRIO TUTTOSPORT MAZZUCCHI SPORTLAND SONICO EDEN SPORT VI BLOCK CAMPO BASE SPILAMBERTO MAKE MERRY BERGER SCHUHE SPORTLAND STEZZANO ALPSTATION TARVISIO SPORTLER TAVAGNACCO ZANI SPORT BLU SURFER PIÙ SPORT IOCORRO!

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PIACENZA PIANCOGNO PIANELLA PIASCO PIETRAMURATA PIETRASANTA PIEVE D’ALPAGO PIEVE DI SOLIGO PIEVE DI TORREBELVICINO PINEROLO PINEROLO PINEROLO PINEROLO PINZOLO PINZOLO PINZOLO PISOGNE PISTOIA PISTOIA PLAN FELINAZ-FELINAZ PONT SAINT MARTIN PONTE DI LEGNO BS PONTE FELCINO PONTE NELLE ALPI PONTE SELVA DI PARRE PONTERANICA PORDENONE PORDENONE PORTO SAN GIORGIO POVE DEL GRAPPA POZZA DI FASSA POZZA DI FASSA PRATA CAMPORTACCIO PRATO PRATO PRATO PRATO NEVOSO PRATO NEVOSO PREDAZZO QUARTU SANT’ELENA RANICA RASEN-ANTHOLZ SÜDTIROL RAVASCLETTO RAVENNA REANA DEL ROJALE REGGIO EMILIA REGGIO EMILIA REGGIO EMILIA RICCIONE RIETI RIETI RIMINI RIMINI RIO DI PUSTERIA RIVAROLO CANAVESE RIVAROLO CANAVESE 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 ROMA ROMA ROMA ROMAGNANO SESIA RONCADELLE RONCHI DEI LEGIONARI RONCO BRIANTINO RORETO DI CHERASCO ROSETO DEGLI ABRUZZI ROVERETO ROVERETO ROVERETO ROVERETO ROVERETO RUFFRE' - MENDOLA S. ANDRA S. CRISTINA SACILE SACILE SAINT CHRISTOPHE SAINT CHRISTOPHE SAINT-CHRISTOPHE SAN CANDIDO SAN CANDIDO SAN CASSIANO SAN CASSIANO SAN GIOVANNI BIANCO SAN LEONARDO IN PASSIRIA SAN MARTINO BUON ALBERGO 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 SAPPADA SARONNO SARONNO SARZANA SARZANA SASSUOLO SASSUOLO SAUZE D’OULX SAUZE D’OULX SAUZE D’OULX SAVIGLIANO SAVIGLIANO SAVIGNANO SUL RUBICONE SCANDICCI SCANDICCI SCHIAVON SCHIO SCHIO SCHIO SCOPPITO SEDICO SELVA GARDENA SELVA VAL GARDENA SELVA VAL GARDENA SENAGO SENIGALLIA SERAVALLE SCRIVIA SERRA SAN QUIRICO SESTO SESTO SAN GIOVANNI SESTOLA SESTRIERE SESTRIERE SESTRIERE SESTRIERE SETTIMO VITTONE SIENA SIENA SIGNORESSA SILEA SILEA SIRTORI SISTIANA SIUSI SIUSI SIUSI SONA SONDRIO SONDRIO SONDRIO SONICO SORBOLO SPESSA SPILAMBERTO SPOLETO ST. NIKOLAUS STEZZANO TARVISIO TAVAGNACCO TEMÙ TERAMO TERAMO TERNI

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ITA TERNI VERTIGINI SPORT ITA TESERO MONTURA FIEMME ITA TESERO SPORT VENTURA ITA TIRANO CRAZY STORE TIRANO ITA TOLMEZZO ANGELI SPORT ITA TOLMEZZO TECNICAL SKI ITA TORINO ALPSTATION TORINO ITA TORINO ASD BOULDER BAR ITA TORINO BSHOP BRACCINI ITA TORINO BSHOP RAVINA ITA TORINO BSIDE CLIMBING VILLAGE ITA TORINO CUORE DA SPORTIVO ITA TORINO FERRINO STORE TORINO ITA TORINO FRESH STORE ITA TORINO GRASSI SPORT TORINO ITA TORINO JOLLY SPORT ITA TORINO JOLLY SPORT ITA TORINO MIZUNO STORE ITA TORINO MONTURA TORINO ITA TORINO ORIZZONTI VERTICALI ITA TORINO ORIZZONTI VERTICALI ITA TORINO PASSION SPORT ITA TORINO PROMOSPORT ITA TORINO RONCO ALPINISMO ITA TORINO SALA SPORT ITA TORINO SALEWA TORINO ITA TORINO SASP PALESTRA CLIMBING ITA TORINO SCHENONE SPORT ITA TORINO STRIKE ITA TORINO THE NORTH FACE TORINO ITA TORINO JIMMY SURF SHOP ITA TORRE BOLDONE READY TO RUN ITA TORRE DEL LAGO TEDDY PALOMINO ITA TORRE PELLICE GULLIVER TORRE PELLICE ITA TORRI DI QUARTESOLO SPORTLER VICENZA ITA TRADATE LEZARD ITA TRAVERSETOLO CATTI SPORT ITA TRE CAPITELLI PARISPORT IDRO ITA TRENTO LA SPORTIVA TRENTO ITA TRENTO MONTURA TRENTO ITA TRENTO ROCK & ICE TRENTO ITA TRENTO SHERPA3 PATAGONIA ITA TRENTO SPORTLER ALPIN TRENTO ITA TRENTO SPORTLER TRENTO ITA TRENTO TECNOSCI ITA TRENTO VERTICAL SPORT TRENTO ITA TRENTO MAGNITUDO ITA TREVISO LE BLOC SHOP ITA TRIESTE ALPSTATION TRIESTE ITA TRIESTE AVVENTURA DUE ITA TRIESTE SPORTLER TRIESTE ITA TURANO PURA VIDA ITA UDINE FIASCARIS ITA UDINE K2 SPORT ITA VAL DI VIZZE SPORT CENTER ITA VAL MASINO FIORELLI SPORT VALMASINO ITA VALDAORA SPORT CORONES ITA VALDRAGONE LAYAK ITA VALLES SPORT MODE MARIA SALEWA OUTLET VALMONTONE ITA VALMONTONE ITA VALTOURNENCHE UAINOT SNOWBOARD SHOP ITA VARESE BONNY MODULAR LAB ITA VARESE ZOO PARK ITA VARNA SKICENTER ITA VELLETRI SPORTANGEL ITA VENASCA SKI KLINIK ITA VERANO BRIANZA RIDER SHOP ITA VERANO BRIANZA ROSSINI SPORT ITA VERMIGLIO LODO SPORT ITA VERNAZZA VERNAZZA SPORT ITA VERONA CAMPO BASE VERONA ITA VERONA DETOUR ITA VERONA GENERATION ITA VERONA MONTURA VERONA ITA VERONA OLIUNÌD VERONA ITA VERONA ROSSIGNOL VERONA ITA VERONA SLIDE BY DETOUR ITA VERONA THE NORTH FACE VERONA ITA VEZZA D’OGLIO ORIZZONTI MONTAGNA ITA VIAREGGIO MARATONANDO ITA VICENZA OLIUNÌD LDR PALESTRA ITA VICENZA OLIUNÌD VICENZA CENTRO ITA VICENZA PRO SPORT ITA VICOFORTE SERGIO SPORT ITA VIGNOLA GILIOLI SPORT ITA VIGNOLA MONDO MONTAGNA ITA VILLAIR VERTICAL NO LIMIT ITA VILLANOVA MONDOVI DHO SPORT ITA VILLANOVA MONDOVI ROSSI ITA VILLANUOVA SUL CLISI SPORTLAND VILLANUOVA ITA VILLASANTA AFFARI & SPORT VILLASANTA ITA VILLENEUVE BAROLI SPORT ITA VILLENEUVE CALZATURE BAROLI ITA VINOVO SPORTLAND TORINO ITA VIPITENO HERBERT PLANK SPORT ITA VITERBO BRUMA STREET STYLE ITA VITERBO LIQUIDO ITA VITERBO RUNNER LA SPORTIVA ZIANO DI FIEMME ITA ZIANO DI FIEMME ITA ZOGNO TIRABOSCHI SPORT ITA ZOLA PREDOSA CRAS ITA ZOLA PREDOSA QUOTA 362 ITA ZOLDO ALTO TABIA SPORT AT ST JOHANN IM PONGAU MOREBOARDS ST. JOHANN AT ALTENMARKT ATOMIC AUSTRIA GMBH AT AMSTETTEN MOREBOARDS AMSTETTEN AT BERGHEIM BEI SALZBURG SALEWA STORE SALZBURG AT BLUDENZ SPORTLER AT BREGENZ BLUE TOMATO BREGENZ AT DORNBIRN MOREBOARDS DORNBIRN AT ENNS ORANGE CORNER E.U. AT FELDKIRCH ALTON PREMIUM STORE AT GERLOS HOTZONE.TV AT GÖTZIS ALPIN LOACKER AT GRAZ BERGFUCHS AT GRAZ BLUE TOMATO GRAZ GRAZ BLUE TOMATO LOGISTIK GRAZ AT AT GRAZ MOREBOARDS GRAZ AT INNSBRUCK ALPSTATION INNSBRUCK INNSBRUCK BLACK DIAMOND INNSBRUCK AT AT INNSBRUCK BLUE TOMATO INNSBRUCK AT INNSBRUCK BURTON STORE INNSBRUCK AT INNSBRUCK BURTON STORE INNSBRUCK AT INNSBRUCK DIE BOERSE AT INNSBRUCK MOREBOARDS INNSBRUCK INNSBRUCK MOREBOARDS INNSBRUCK DEZ AT AT INNSBRUCK PATAGONIA INNSBRUCK AT INNSBRUCK SPORTLER WITTING INNSBRUCK THE NORTH FACE INNSBRUCK AT AT INNSBRUCK XDOUBLE KIRCHDORF IN TIROL ROCKNROLL MOUNTAIN STORE AT AT KLAGENFURT BLUE TOMATO KLAGENFURT AT KLAGENFURT MOREBOARDS KLAGENFURT AT KLAGENFURT AM WÖRTHERSEE HIGH LIFE HANDELS AT KUFSTEIN MOREBOARDS KUFSTEIN AT KUFSTEIN SPORTLER AT LANDECK MOREBOARDS LANDECK AT LEOBEN MOREBOARDS LEOBEN AT LIENZ BERGSPORT AT LIENZ BLUE TOMATO LIENZ AT LIENZ ZIMML ALPINAUSSTATTER LINZ BASE CAMP THE ALPINE STORE AT LINZ BETABOARDS X PETER WAGNER AT AT LINZ MOREBOARDS LINZ AT LOFER LIVID SPORTS AT MAYRHOFEN MOREBOARDS MAYRHOFEN AT NEUSTIFT IM STUBAITAL MOREBOARDS STUBAI AT OBERTAUERN BLUE TOMATO AT OBERTAUERN BLUE TOMATO OBERTAUERN AT PARNDORF BURTON STORE PARNDORF AT PARNDORF SALEWA OUTLET PARNDORF AT PASCHING BLUE TOMATO LINZ AT PASCHING MOREBOARDS PASCHING AT SAALBACH BOARD.AT AT SAALFELDEN SALEWA STORE SAALFELDEN AT SALZBURG BLUE TOMATO SALZBURG SCHLADMING BLUE TOMATO ONLINE STORE AT AT SCHLADMING BLUE TOMATO SCHLADMING SCHLADMING SALEWA STORE SCHLADMING AT AT SCS VÖSENDORF BLUE TOMATO SCS AT SEIERSBERG BLUE TOMATO SEIERSBERG AT SEIERSBERG-PIRKA MOREBOARDS SEIERSBERG AT SÖLDEN MOREBOARDS SÖLDEN AT SÖLDEN SPORT4YOU AT ST. ANTON AM ARLBERG PETE SPORT AT ST. PÖLTEN MOREBOARDS ST. PÖLTEN AT STEYR BERGWERK AT STEYR MOREBOARDS STEYR TELFS INNTALCENTER MOREBOARDS INNTALCENTER AT AT VILLACH BLUE TOMATO VILLACH AT WELS MOREBOARDS WELS AT WIEN BLUE TOMATO WIEN AT WIEN BLUE TOMATO WIEN AT WIEN FAME BOARDSHOP AT WIEN HANG LOOSE AT WIEN MOREBOARDS WIEN AT WIEN SALEWA STORE WIEN AT WIEN STEPPENWOLF AT WIENER MOREBOARDS WIENER AT WÖRGL BLUE TOMATO WÖRGL AT ZAMS ONSIGHT BERGSPORT 157 AT ZELL AM SEE LA RESISTANCE CH ANDERMATT SNOWLIMIT

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CH AGANÉ CH BLUE TOMATO BASEL CH DOODAH BASEL CH TRANSA BASEL CH BLUE TOMATO BERN CH DOODAH BERN CH TRANSA BERN CH BÄCHLI BERGSPORT CH LONGBOARDER CH SURF MACHINE CH RADIX BURGDORF CH STILE ALPINO LUGANO CH BAECHLI CONTHEY CH PLANET ENDURANCE CH BURTON STORE FLIMS CH DOODAH GENÈVE CH TRANZPORT CH BACKDOOR CH TREELEE CH BOARDERWORLD CH BURTON LAUSANNE CH DOODAH LAUSANNE CH RADIX LIESTAL CH TRANSA LUCERNE DF SPORT SPECIALIST LUGANO CH CH BLUE TOMATO LUZERN CH DOODAH LUZERN CH MANLY CH SALEWA STORE PONTRESINA CH PURE SNOWBOARD CH WILD ONE CH STILE ALPINO SAMEDAN CH ELEMENT STORE CH BOOSPORT CH TRANSA ST. GALLEN CH PLAYGROUND IN PARADISE CH ONE 80 CH BACKSIDE CH MONTAIN-AIR CH VICTIM CIRCLE CH CLOUD 9 CH BLUE TOMATO WINTERTHUR CH BAYARD SPORT CH JULEN SPORT CH MILLET SHOP CH SALEWA STORE ZERMATT CH THE NORTH FACE ZERMATT CH DOODAH ZUG CH BURTON STORE ZURICH CH THE NORTH FACE ZURICH CH TRANSA ZURICH CH BLUE TOMATO ZÜRICH CH DOODAH ZÜRICH CH RADIX ZÜRICH CH BÄCHLI BERGSPORT DE PULSSCHLAG DE MOUNTAIN-SPORTS CONDITION STEIGENBERGER DE DE BERGSPORTHÜTTE DE SURF & SNOW CENTER DE STADT LAND FLUSS DE HILIGHT DE BERGSPORT GEISTALLER DE BLUE TOMATO BERLIN DE BLUE TOMATO SHOP ALEXA DE CAMP 4 DE DER BERG RUFT DE GLOBETROTTER BERLIN DE MONT K DE PATAGONIA BERLIN DE THE NORTH FACE BERLIN DE BOARD MONKEYS DE NO LIMIT DE UNTERWEGS BIELEFELD DE PLAN-B FUNSPORT DE BLUE TOMATO BONN DE GLOBETROTTER BONN DE UNTERWEGS BONN DE BLUE TOMATO BREMEN DE SURFSHOP CHARCHULLA DE UNTERWEGS BREMEN DE UNTERWEGS CELLE DE BIKER BOARDER DE EASTSIDE / FUN SPORT DE DER SKANDINAVIER DE RAILSLIDE DE BRETTLLADEN DE GLOBETROTTER DRESDEN DE UNTERWEGS DUISBURG GLOBETROTTER DÜSSELDORF DE DE SACK & PACK DE THE BOARDER SHOP DE WAREHOUSE ONE X RENE REINDL DE UNTERWEGS ERFURT DE FREILAUF DE BLUE TOMATO ESSEN DE BERGSPORT MÜHLBAUER DE UNTERWEGS FLENSBURG DE RAILSLIDE DE GLOBETROTTER FRANKFURT DE BLUE TOMATO FREIBURG DE SALEWA STORE FREIBURG DE SPORT KIEFER DE DOOROUT.COM DE NORDWAND SPORTS DE ALPINSPORT BASIS DE BERGSPORT WN ALPIN DE EDGE 2 EDGE DE SPORT CONRAD GARMISCH DE SPORT & TREND DE BERGZEIT DE DAILY MILK! DE SPIN LOOP DE BLUE TOMATO HAMBURG DE FREERIDER SHOP DE GLOBETROTTER HAMBURG DE GLOBETROTTER HAMBURG DE UNTERWEGS HAMM DE BRETTWERK DE BLUE TOMATO HANNOVER DE BSZ BERGSPORTZENTRALE SPORT KAUFMANN HANNOVER DE DE POWSTORE DE NUBUK SPORTS DE ADVENTURE COMPANY DE BERGZEIT DE UNTERWEGS HÖXTER DE UNTERWEGS JEVER BASISLAGER SPORT HANDELS DE DE BLUE TOMATO KARLSRUHE DE SCENIC SPORTS DE BERGSPORT MAXI DE SURFLINE KIEL DE UNTERWEGS KIEL DE BLUE TOMATO KÖLN GLOBETROTTER AUSRÜSTUNG DE DE GLOBETROTTER KÖLN DE PLANET SPORTS KÖLN DE SPORT GRUNER DE ALPINSPORTZENTRALE DE ALPEN STRAND DE THE NORTH FACE LEIPZIG DE UNTERWEGS LEIPZIG DE BIWAK DE EISELIN SPORT DE FOLLOW ME STORE DE ALPIN OUTDOOR LADEN DE GOOD QUESTION DE S'BRETT DE OUTDOORTRENDS DE MAGIC MOUNT DE BLUE TOMATO MÜNCHEN DE GLOBETROTTER MÜNCHEN DE GOLDWIN DE PATAGONIA MÜNCHEN DE PLANET SPORTS MÜNCHEN DE QUIKSILVER MUNICH DE RUMRICH STONE PROJECTS DE SANTO LOCO DE SCHUSTER SPORTHAUS DE BURTON STORE MUNICH DE DERU DE THE NORTH FACE MUNICH DE BLUE TOMATO MÜNSTER DE UNTERWEGS MÜNSTER DE WESTSIDE DE SPORT CONRAD MURNAU DE PANORMA BOARDS DE TRAVEL & TREK BASTIAN DE BLUE TOMATO OBERHAUSEN SALEWA STORE OBERSTDORF DE DE BOARDBANDITS DE UNTERWEGS OLDENBURG DE DER OUTDOORLADEN DE MISTERSKI DE BLUE TOMATO SHOP PASSAU DE SPORT CONRAD PENZBERG DE POWDER FORCE DE GIPFELSTÜRMER DE ADRENALIN DE BLUE TOMATO REGENSBRUG SALEWA STORE REGENSBURG DE DE BLUE TOMATO ROSENHEIM

ARBEDO-CASTIONE BASEL BASEL BASEL BERN BERN BERN BERN-BREITENRAIN BIEL/BIENNE BULLE BURGDORF CANOBBIO CONTHEY ECUBLENS FLIMS GENÈVE GENÈVE GRINDELWALD HOCHDORF LAAX LAUSANNE LAUSANNE LIESTAL LUCERNE LUGANO LUZERN LUZERN MORGES PONTRESINA SAANEN SAAS-FEE SAMEDAN SCUOL SIERRE ST. GALLEN ST. MORITZ STUDEN VERBIER VERBIER WERDENBERG WINTERTHUR WINTERTHUR ZERMATT ZERMATT ZERMATT ZERMATT ZERMATT ZUG ZURICH ZURICH ZURICH ZÜRICH ZÜRICH ZÜRICH ZURICH-OERLIKON AACHEN ANSBACH ASCHAU AUGSBURG AUGSBURG BAD TÖLZ BALINGEN BERCHTESGADEN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BIELEFELD BIELEFELD BIELEFELD BOCHUM BONN BONN BONN BREMEN BREMEN BREMEN CELLE CHEMNITZ CHEMNITZ COBURG DARMSTADT DRESDEN DRESDEN DUISBURG DÜSSELDORF DÜSSELDORF DÜSSELDORF DÜSSELDORF ERFURT ERLANGEN ESSEN FELDKIRCHEN WESTERHAM FLENSBURG FRANKFURT FRANKFURT AM MAIN FREIBURG FREIBURG FREIBURG FULDA FÜSSEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GILCHING GMUND-MOOSRAIN GÖRLITZ GÖTTINGEN HAMBURG HAMBURG HAMBURG HAMBURG HAMM HANAU HANNOVER HANNOVER HANNOVER HASLACH IM KINZIGTAL HEIDENHEIM HEILBRONN HOLZKIRCHEN / GROSSHARTPENNING HÖXTER JEVER KARLSRUHE KARLSRUHE KAUFBEUREN KEMPTEN KIEL KIEL KÖLN KÖLN KÖLN KÖLN KONSTANZ LANDSBERG AM LECH LANDSHUT LEIPZIG LEIPZIG LIMBURG LÖRRACH LÖRRACH MAINZ MAINZ MANNHEIM MARKTOBERDORF MENDEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MÜNCHEN MUNICH MUNICH MUNICH MÜNSTER MÜNSTER MÜNSTER MURNAU NEU-ISENBURG NÜRNBERG OBERHAUSEN OBERSTDORF OBERWIESENTHAL OLDENBURG PADERBORN PADERBORN PASSAU PENZBERG PFORZHEIM RAVENSBURG REGENSBURG REGENSBURG REGENSBURG ROSENHEIM

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DE MONTAGNE-SPORT DE WIND DE BALANCE DE SKATEDELUXE DE RIDERS HEAVEN DE BERGWERKER STUTTGART DE BLUE TOMATO SHOP DE GLOBETROTTER STUTTGART DE UNFAMILIAR DE GLOBETROTTER HARZ DE SCHNEIDER RAD+SPORT DE BLUE TOMATO SHOP TRIER DE VIKING ADVENTURES DE BIWAKSCHACHTEL DE FIFTY-EIGHT DE GLOBETROTTER ULM DE UNTERWEGS WESEL SPORT CONRAD WIELENBACH DE UNTERWEGS WILHELMSHAVEN DE DE LIFTSTATION SALEWA OUTLET ZWEIBRÜCKEN DE DE ENDLESS WINTER DK EVENTYRSPORT DK NATURLIGVIS OUTDOOR DK OUTDOOR XPERTEN FI BURTON STORE HELSINKI FI SCANDINAVIAN HELSINKI FI PARTIOAITTA LAHTI FI PARTIOAITTA ROVANIEMI FI SCANDINAVIAN VANTAA FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR FR MILLET SHOP ALPE D'HUEZ FR BURTON ANNECY FR PICTURE FR QUIKSILVER ANNECY FR RIP CURL ANNECY FR SNOWLEADER ANNECY FR THE NORTH FACE ANNECY FR CHULLANKA ANTIBES FR GLISSE FR BURTON AVORIAZ FR MILLET SHOP BASTIA FR PEYTAVIN SPORT FR QUIKSILVER BIARRITZ FR SPORTS AVENTURE FR SPORTS AVENTURE FR WOOD BOARD FR LABO SHOP FR BOARDRIDERS CAPBRETON AU VIEUX CAMPEUR CHAMBÉRY FR FR EKOSPORT FR BOARDRIDERS CHAMONIX FR ZERO G FR ARC’TERYX CHAMONIX FR HAGLOFS CHAMONIX FR MILLET SHOP CHAMONIX FR SNELL SPORTS FR SNOWLEADER CHAMONIX FR THE NORTH FACE CHAMONIX FR PATAGONIA CHAMONIX COQUOZ SPORTS / SALOMON FR FR D'AVENTURE EN AVENTURE FR BOARDRIDERS PAMPLONA FR MILLET SHOP COURCHEVEL FR MILLET SHOP DIJON FR ENDURANCE SHOP EPINAL FR S'CAPE FONTAINEBLEAU FR ESPACE MONTAGNE FR APPROACH GAP FR ALTITUDE SPORT OUTDOOR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR GRENOBLE FR FR MERCI DISTILLERY FR MERCYDISTILLERY FR QUIKSILVER HOSSEGOR FR RIP CURL ALPE D’HUEZ FR L’IMPREVU SNOW SHOP FR MILLET SHOP LA CLUSAZ FR MONTAZ FR MONTAZ FR GRAND CENTRAL FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR LABÈGE FR ESPACE GLISSE FR BOARDRIDERS ANGLET FR ESPACE MONTAGNE FR ATELIER DU SNOWBOARD FR SUPER WHITE FR MILLET SHOP LES ARCS MILLET SHOP LES DEUX ALPES FR FR ADDICTED FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR LYON FR MILLET SHOP LYON FR SNOWLEADER LYON FR THE NORTH FACE LYON AU VIEUX CAMPEUR MARSEILLE FR FR CAP RUNNING FR MASSILIA FR AVALON RIDER FR MILLET SHOP MERIBEL FR CHULLANKA MERIGNAC FR GLISSE PROSHOP FR PASSION SNOW FR SLOPE STYLE FR CHULLANKA METZ FR THE NORTH FACE NANTES FR ALTICOOP FR QUAI 34 FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR PARIS FR HAWAII SURF FR MILLET SHOP PARIS FR THE NORTH FACE PARIS THE NORTH FACE PARIS OPERA FR FR THE NORTH FACE PARIS FR URBAN SURFER PARIS SPORT MONTAGNE PERPIGNAN FR FR ENDURANCE FR ESPACE MONTAGNE FR LA LUGE FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR FR BERNINA SPORT COLMAR FR MILLET SHOP SAINT LARY FR BOARDRIDERS FR MILLET SHOP NICE FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR FR SLIDE BOX FR THE NORTH FACE FR TURBULENCES FR AU VIEUX CAMPEUR THONON FR BLACK CATS FR CHULLANKA TOULOUSE FR RIP CURL TOULOUSE FR MILLET SHOP VAL D'ISÈRE FR MILLET SHOP VAL THORENS FR TERRE DE MONTAGNE NL DOWNTOWN NL BEVER ALMERE NL BEVER AMERSFOORT NL BEHIND THE PINES NL BEHIND THE PINES NL BEVER AMSTERDAM NL BEVER AMSTERDAM NL CARL DENIG NL KATHMANDU AMSTERDAM NL MONK AMSTERDAM THE NORTH FACE AMSTERDAM NL NL BEVER APELDOORN NL BEVER ARNHEM NL BEVER ASSEN NL MK SKISERVICE NL BEVER BREDA NL BEVER DEN HAAG NL BEVER DEN HAAG NL HUNA OUTDOOR SHOP NL BEVER DEVENTER NL BURNSIDE NL BEVER DOETINCHEM NL BEVER EINDHOVEN NL MONK EINDHOVEN NL BEVER ENSCHEDE NL RENÉ VOS OUTDOOR NL BEVER GRONINGEN NL CAER BOARDSPORTS NL SOELLAART NL REVERT 95 NL BAUM SPORT NL BEVER HENGELO NL BEVER HILVERSUM NL BEVER HOUTEN NL THE TUBE NL BEVER NIJMEGEN NL FREESTYLE SPORT NL OUTDOOR & TRAVEL NL BEVER ROTTERDAM NL MOUNT RUCPHEN NL BEVER S-HERTOGENBOSCH NL BEVER STEENWIJK NL MOUNT TERNEUZEN NL SNOWCOUNTRY NL BEVER TILBURG NL BEVER UTRECHT NL KATHMANDU UTRECHT NL THE NORTH FACE UTRECHT NL VAN BELLEN SURF SNOW NL ZWERFKEI OUTDOOR

ROSENHEIM SAARBRÜCKEN SAARLOUIS SCHIMBERG SONTHOFEN STUTTGART STUTTGART STUTTGART STUTTGART TORFHAUS (HARZ) TRAUNSTEIN TRIER TRIER TÜBINGEN ULM ULM WESEL WIELENBACH WILHELMSHAVEN WINTERBERG ZWEIBRÜCKEN ZWICKAU AARHUS FREDERIKSBERG HOLSTEBRO HELSINKI HELSINKI LATHI ROVANIEMI VANTAA ALBERTVILLE ALPES D'HUEZ ANNECY ANNECY ANNECY ANNECY ANNECY ANNECY ANTIBES AUBIERE AVORIAZ BASTIA BAYONNE BIARRITZ BORDEAUX BORDEAUX BOURG LES VALENCE BOURG SAINT MAURICE CAPBRETON CHAMBÉRY CHAMBÉRY CHAMONIX CHAMONIX CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MONT BLANC CHAMONIX MT-BLANC CLERMONT FERRAND CORDOVILLA - PAMPLONA COURCHEVEL DIJON EPINAL FONTAINEBLEAU FRANCHEVILLE GAP GERARDMER GRENOBLE GRENOBLE GRENOBLE HOSSEGOR HUEZ ISOLA 2000 LA CLUSAZ LA RAVOIR LA RAVOIRE LA VALETTE DU VARS LABÈGE LABENNE LAPORTE ANGLET LE GRAND EPAGNY LES 2 ALPES LES 2 ALPES LES ARCS 1800 LES DEUX ALPES LYON LYON LYON LYON LYON MARSEILLE MARSEILLE MARSEILLE MERIBEL MERIBEL MERIGNAC MONTPELLIER MORIÈRES LES AVIGNON MORZINE MOULINS LES METZ NANTES NICE NICE PARIS PARIS PARIS PARIS PARIS PARIS PARIS PERPIGNAN RODEZ SAINT MARTIN D'HERES SAINT-BON-TARENTAISE SALLANCHES SELESTAT ST LARY SOULAN ST. JEAN DE LUZ ST. LAURENT DU VAR STRASBOURG STRASBOURG STRASBOURG TARBES THONON LES BAINS TIGNES TOULOUSE TOULOUSE VAL D'ISÈRE VAL THORENS VILLE LA GRAND ’S-HERTOGENBOSH ALMERE AMERSFOORT AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM APELDOORN ARNHEM ASSEN BILTHOVEN BREDA DEN HAAG DEN HAAG DEN HAAG DEVENTER DEVENTER DOETINCHEM EINDHOVEN EINDHOVEN ENSCHEDE GORSSEL GRONINGEN GRONINGEN HAARLEM HARLEM HENGELO HENGELO HILVERSUM HOUTEN MIDDELBURG NIJMEGEN ROOSENDAAL ROOSENDAAL ROTTERDAM RUCPHEN S-HERTOGENBOSCH STEENWIJK TERNEUZEN TERSCHUUR TILBURG UTRECHT UTRECHT UTRECHT WILLEMSTAD WOERDEN

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UNCLE'S DUIJVESTEIN WINTERSPORT SESSION BERGEN SESSION KRISTIANSAND SESSION ARKADEN SESSION STAVANGER NATURKOMPANIET STANDTALL NARTURKOMPANIET ADDNATURE CITY ALEWALDS BURTON STOCKHOLM NATURKOMPANIET STUNTWOOD VANS STORE STOCKHOLM JUNKYARD ALEWALDS OUTNORTH THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM SNOW+ROCK BIRMINGHAM THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM SNOW+ROCK BRIGHTON THE NORTH FACE BRISTOL THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM BOARDWISE THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM SNOW+ROCK CHERTSEY THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM SNOW+ROCK DARTFORD SNOW+ROCK DIDSBURY SNOW+ROCK WIRRAL THE NORTH FACE EDINBURGH SNOW+ROCK EXETER THE BOARD BASEMENT SNOW+ROCK BRISTOL THE SNOWBOARD SHOP THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM SNOW+ROCK GATESHEAD THE NORTH FACE GLASGOW SNOW+ROCK HEMEL SNOW+ROCK KENSINGTON NEEDLE SPORTS SICK AND WRONG SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK LEEDS MAGIC TOAST THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM COTSWOLD ISLINGTON COTSWOLD PICCADILLY ELLIS BRIGHAM MOUNTAIN FINCHES EMPORIUM SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK LONDON SNOW+ROCK LONDON SURFDOME THE NORTH FACE THE NORTH FACE LONDON THE NORTH FACE VICTORIA THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM PATAGONIA MANCHESTER SNOW+ROCK MANCHESTER SUBVERT THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM LD MOUNTAIN CENTRE SNOWFIT SNOW+ROCK PORT SOLENT SNOW+ROCK ROMFORD THE NORTH FACE ODYSSEY THE SNOWBOARD ASYLUM ABSOLUTE SNOW BIG DREAMS

NL NL NO NO NO NO SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK

ZIERIKZEE ZOETERMEER BERGEN KRISTIANSAND OSLO STAVANGER GÖTEBORG HISINGS BACKA MALMO STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM TROLLHÄTTAN UPPSALA VÄXJÖ AVIEMORE BIRMINGHAM BRAEHEAD BRIGHTON BRISTOL BRISTOL CANNOCK CASTLEFORD CHELMSFORD CHERTSEY CHESTER DARTFORD DIDSBURY EASTHAM EDINBURGH EXETER EXETER FILTON FLEET - HAMPSHIRE FORT WILLIAM GATESHEAD GLASGOW HEMEL KENSINGTON KESWICK KESWICK, CUMBRIA KNIGHTSBRIDGE LEEDS LEICESTER LIVERPOOL LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MILTON KEYNES NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NORWICH PORTSMOUTH ROMFORD SHEFFIELD SUFFOLK TAMWORTH WALFORD WAREHAM

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ITA ARIA RETREAT & SPA ITA PARCO SAN MARCO ITA QC TERME PRÉ SAINT DIDIER ITA ALAGNA MOUNTAIN RESORT ITA ALPINA DOLOMITES ITA HOTEL GOLDKNOPF ITA HOTEL ROSA ECO ALPINE ITA HOTEL SALTRIA ITA HOTEL STEGER DELLAI ITA ICARO HOTEL ITA PAULA WIESINGER ITA SEISER ALM URTHALER ITA SPORTHOTEL FLORALPINA ITA SPORTHOTEL SONNE ITA TIRLER DOLOMITES LIVING ADLER HOTEL WELLNESS&SPA ITA ITA CAVALLINO LOVELY HOTEL ITA CORONA DOLOMITES HOTEL ITA DOLCE AVITA HOTEL ITA FAMILY HOTEL SERENA ITA HOTEL AMBIEZ ITA HOTEL GARNÌ LA ROCCIA ITA PARK HOTEL SPORT PICCOLO HOTEL SUITE RESORT ITA ITA PIZ GALIN GRAND HOTEL ITA SASSDEI SUITE HOTEL ITA DUCA D'AOSTA HOTEL ITA OMANA HOTEL ITA CRISTALLO CLUB ITA HOTEL AMBROSINI ITA HOTEL ARISCH RESIDENCE HOTEL SERENELLA ITA ITA HOTEL EVALDO ITA RESIDENCE ASPEN ITA SPORTHOTEL ARABBA ITA ALBERGO AL SOLE ITA CASA BEMBO ITA COUNTRY HOUSE BARONE ITA HOTEL VILLA CIPRIANI ITA VILLA IL GALERO ITA RESIDENCE AL LAGO ITA HOTEL CÀ FIORE ITA HOTEL RIVÈ ITA SAVOIA MOUNTAIN RESORT ITA GRAND HOTEL DINO ITA HOTEL ROSA ITA GRAND HOTEL VILLA ITA HOTEL BELVEDERE ITA SUITES HOTEL ASTOR BOGEN BISTRO & APARTMENTS ITA ITA CASTEL HÖRTENBERG ITA GOLDENSTERN TOWNHOUSE ITA HOTEL GREIF ITA HOTEL SCALA STIEGL ITA PARKHOTEL LAURIN ITA PARKHOTEL MONDSCHEIN ITA STADT HOTEL CITTÀ ITA EDEN HOTEL HOTEL ALÙ MOUNTAIN DESIGN ITA ITA HOTEL BAITA CLEMENTI ITA HOTEL BAITA DEI PINI ITA HOTEL CRISTALLO ITA HOTEL SAN LORENZO ITA HOTEL SANTANTON ITA MIRAMONTI PARK HOTEL ITA PALACE HOTEL WELLNESS ITA SOTTOVENTO LUXURY ITA DOMINIK ALPINE CITY ITA HOTEL ELEPHANT ITA HOTEL GOLDENER ADLER ITA HOTEL GOLDENES ROESSL ITA HOTEL GRÜNER BAUM ITA HOTEL PUPP B&B ITA KRONE EAT DRINK STAY ITA ART HOTEL GRIVOLA ITA BERGMAN MOUNTAIN HOTEL ITA EXCELSIOR PLANET ITA GRAND HOTEL CERVINO ITA HOTEL BUCANEVE ITA HOTEL EUROPA ITA HOTEL HERMITAGE ITA HOTEL PUNTA MAQUIGNAZ ITA LES NEIGES D’ANTAN ITA SERTORELLI SPORTHOTEL ITA WHITE ANGEL HOTEL ITA HOTEL ANDREAS HOFER ITA HOTEL PETRUS HOTEL POST ALPINE CITYFLAIR ITA ITA HOTEL RESTAURANT 158 ITA MAJESTIC HOTEL & SPA ITA CROCE BIANCA LEISURE

CIMA DI PORLEZZA CIMA DI PORLEZZA PRÉ SAINT DIDIER ALAGNA VALSESIA ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ALPE DI SIUSI ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO ANDALO AOSTA AOSTA APRICA APRICA APRICA APRICA ARABBA ARABBA ARABBA ASOLO ASOLO ASOLO ASOLO ASOLO AURONZO DI CADORE BARDONECCHIA BARDONECCHIA BARDONECCHIA BAVENO BAVENO BELLAGIO BELLAGIO BELLUNO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BOLZANO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BORMIO BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BRESSANONE BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BREUIL-CERVINIA BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO BRUNICO CANAZEI

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ITA HOTEL ASTORIA ITA HOTEL B&B ANDREAS ITA HOTEL CESA TYROL ITA HOTEL DOLOMITI SCHLOSS ITA HOTEL LA PERLA ITA HOTEL PAREDA ITA LOCANDA DEGLI ARTISTI ITA HOTEL CANNERO ITA HOTEL CANNOBIO ITA PARK HOTEL ITALIA ITA ABINEA DOLOMITI ITA ALPIN BOUTIQUE ITA AURA CHALETS BRUNELLE SEISER ALM LODGE ITA ITA HOTEL CASTEL OSWALD ITA HOTEL CHALET TIANES ITA HOTEL LAMM ITA HOTEL MADONNA ITA HOTEL ROSSLAUFHOF ITA HOTEL VILLA KASTELRUTH ITA SCHGAGULER HOTEL ITA SONUS ALPIS ITA HOTEL BELLAVISTA ITA HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITA HOTEL GARNÌ LAURINO ITA HOTEL LA STUA ITA HOTEL ORSO GRIGIO ITA HOTEL RELAIS GRÜNWALD LA ROCCIA WELLNESS HOTEL ITA ITA PARK HOTEL BELLACOSTA ITA HOTEL EDELWEISS&SPA ITA AU CHARMANT PETIT LAC ITA BREITHORN HOTEL ITA CAMPZERO ACTIVE ITA HOTEL LA ROUJA HOTEL RELAIS DES GLACIERS ITA HOTELLERIE DE MASCOGNAZ ITA ITA LE ROCHER HOTEL ITA AGRITURISMO BIO CA' ITA HOTEL BES&SPA ITA BELLEVUE HOTEL&SPA ITA HOTEL SANT’ORSO RESIDENCE RAINBOW HOLIDAY ITA ITA BEST WESTERN HOTEL HOTEL CITTA' DI CONEGLIANO ITA ITA RELAIS LE BETULLE ITA HOTEL VILLA BLU ITA AMBRA CORTINA ITA CAMINA SUITE AND SPA ITA CRISTALLO A LUXURY ITA FALORIA MOUNTAIN ITA FRANCESCHI PARK HOTEL ITA GRAND HOTEL SAVOIA ITA HOTEL ALASKA CORTINA HOTEL BELLEVUE SUITES&SPA ITA ITA HOTEL CORTINA ITA HOTEL CRISTALLINO ITA HOTEL DE LA POSTE ITA HOTEL DE LEN ITA HOTEL EUROPA ITA HOTEL LAJADIRA&SPA ITA HOTEL MAJONI ITA HOTEL MIRAGE ITA MIRAMONTI MAJESTIC ITA PARC HOTEL VICTORIA RADISSON RESIDENCES SAVOIA ITA ITA ROSAPETRA SPA RESORT ITA CHALET CORVARA HOTEL ARKADIA “ADULTS ONLY" ITA ITA HOTEL COL ALTO ITA HOTEL LA PERLA ITA HOTEL MARMOLADA HOTEL MIRAMONTI CORVARA ITA ITA HOTEL SASSONGHER ITA SPORTHOTEL PANORAMA ITA TH CORVARA GREIF HOTEL ITA CRESTA ET DUC HOTEL ITA GRAN BAITA GRAND HOTEL COURMAYEUR ITA GRAND HOTEL ROYAL E GOLF ITA ITA HOTEL CHALET SVIZZERO ITA HOTEL LES JUMEAUX ITA HOTEL LO SCOIATTOLO ITA HOTEL PAVILLON ITA IH HOTELS COURMAYEUR ITA LE MASSIF HOTEL & LODGE ITA VILLA NOVECENTO ITA BHAVANTÙ ITA HOTEL DESENZANO ITA HOTEL ESTÉE ITA HOTEL MAYER & SPLENDID ITA LIDO INTERNATIONAL ITA PARK HOTEL ITA PICCOLA VELA VILLA ROSA HOTEL DESENZANO ITA ITA GARTENHOTEL VÖLSER HOF ITA HOTEL EMMI ITA PARC HOTEL MIRAMONTI ITA ROMANTIK HOTEL TURM ITA BRUNET THE DOLOMITES HOTEL ISOLABELLA WELLNESS ITA ITA HOTEL LUIS ITA HOTEL MIRABELLO SLOW ITA BLU HOTEL NATURA&SPA ITA FOLGARIA POST HOTEL ITA ALPHOTEL TALLER ITA HOTEL CAMINETTO ITA LUNA WELLNESS HOTEL ITA PARK HOTEL ITA CHALET DU LYS HOTEL&SPA ITA HOTEL LO SCOIATTOLO ITA SPORT HOTEL RUDOLF ITA CHALET EDEN ITA LE MIRAMONTI HOTEL ITA MONTANA LODGE&SPA ITA PLANIBEL HOTEL ITA RE DELLE ALPI ITA HOTEL CRISTALLO ITA YACHTING RESIDENCE ITA HOTEL DE CHARME LAVENO ITA LE BETULLE ITA VILLA TERESA ITA BIO HOTEL VILLA CECILIA ITA BIVIO HOTEL PLAZA ITA BOUTIQUE HOTEL SONNE ITA HOTEL BAITA MONTANA ITA HOTEL CONCORDIA ITA HOTEL FLORA ITA HOTEL LARICE ITA HOTEL POSTA ITA HOTEL ROBERTA ALPINE ITA HOTEL SPOL ITA HOTEL TOURING ITA MONT CHALET NEVADA ITA MOTA COMFORT SPA HOTEL ITA PARK CHALET VILLAGE HOTEL LOVERE RESORT & SPA ITA ITA CAMIN HOTEL LUINO ITA RELAIS VILLA PORTA ITA BOSCONE SUITE HOTEL ITA HOTEL ANDOSSI ITA SPORT HOTEL ALPINA ITA ALPEN SUITE HOTEL ITA BOUTIQUE HOTEL DIANA ITA CERANA RELAX HOTEL CHALET LAURA LODGE HOTEL ITA ITA CRISTAL PALACE HOTEL ITA HOTEL BERTELLI HOTEL CAMPIGLIO BELLAVISTA ITA ITA HOTEL CASA DEL CAMPO ITA HOTEL CHALET ITA HOTEL CHALET DEL BRENTA ITA HOTEL CHALET DEL SOGNO ITA HOTEL CLUB RELAIS ITA HOTEL CRISTIANIA ITA HOTEL CROZZON ITA HOTEL DAHU ITA HOTEL GARNÌ CAMINETTO ITA HOTEL GARNÌ CRISTALLO ITA HOTEL IDEAL ITA HOTEL LORENZETTI ITA HOTEL OBEROSLE ITA HOTEL ROSENGARTEN ITA HOTEL SPINALE ITA HOTEL SPLENDID ITA MAJESTIC HOTEL ITA SAVOIA PALACE HOTEL ITA SPORTHOTEL ROMANTIC ITA STYLE HOTEL GRIFONE ITA TH MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO ITA GRAND HOTEL MENAGGIO ITA GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA ITA CITY HOTEL MERANO ITA HOTEL BAVARIA ITA HOTEL EUROPA SPLENDID ITA HOTEL SITTNERHOF ITA PARK HOTEL MIGNON ITA WINDSOR MERANO ITA CASA DELLA CAPRA ITA ACTIVE ALM HOTEL ITA ADLER FAMILY ITA CENTRAL HOTEL ITA HOTEL GARDEN

CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANAZEI CANNERO RIVIERA CANNERO RIVIERA CANNERO RIVIERA CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CASTELROTTO CAVALESE CAVALESE CAVALESE CAVALESE CAVALESE CAVALESE CAVALESE CAVALESE CESANA TORINESE CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHAMPOLUC CHIAVENNA CLAVIERE COGNE COGNE COLICO CONEGLIANO CONEGLIANO CONEGLIANO CORTINA D'AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA CORVARA IN BADIA COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR COURMAYEUR DARIO BOARIO TERME DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESENZANO DEL GARDA DESENZANO DEL GARDA FIÉ ALLO SCILIAR FIÉ ALLO SCILIAR FIÉ ALLO SCILIAR FIÉ ALLO SCILIAR FIERA DI PRIMIERO FIERA DI PRIMIERO FIERA DI PRIMIERO FIERA DI PRIMIERO FOLGARIA FOLGARIA FOLGARIDA FOLGARIDA FOLGARIDA FOLGARIDA GRESSONEY-LA-TRINITÉ GRESSONEY-LA-TRINITÉ GRESSONEY-SAINT-JEAN LA THUILE LA THUILE LA THUILE LA THUILE LA THUILE LA VILLA LAVENA PONTE TRESA LAVENO MOMBELLO LAVENO MOMBELLO LIMONE PIEMONTE LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LIVIGNO LOVERE LUINO LUINO MADESIMO MADESIMO MADESIMO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO MENAGGIO MENAGGIO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERANO MERGOZZO MOENA MOENA MOENA MOENA

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LEADING RELAX HOTEL MARIA ITA ITA RESIDENCE LASTÈ ITA RESORT DOLCE CASA ITA HOTEL BELLAVISTA ITA WINE HOTEL SAN GIACOMO ITA HOTEL ALPECHIARA ITA HOTEL PIANDINEVE ITA SPORT HOTEL VITTORIA ITA ALPIN HOTEL SONNBLICK ITA HOTEL WALDHOF ITA HOTEL BARRAGE ITA HOTEL VILLA GLICINI ITA HOTEL EUROPEO ITA BEVERLY HOTEL DOLOMEET BOUTIQUE HOTEL ITA ITA HOTEL CRISTINA LEFAY RESORT&SPA DOLOMITI ITA ITA OLYMPIC PALACE ITA BLU HOTEL ACQUASERIA ITA GRAND HOTEL PARADISO ITA HOTEL GARNI SORRISO ITA HOTEL MIRELLA ITA JOLLY RESORT&SPA ITA RESIDENCE CLUB ITA CHALET LA CIASETA ITA FAMILY HOTEL GRAN BAITA ITA HOTEL ANDA HOTEL TERME ANTICO BAGNO ITA ITA WELLNESS FASSA ITA HOTEL CASTEL PIETRA ITA FALKENSTEINER HOTEL ITA HOTEL RUDOLF ITA K1 MOUNTAIN CHALET MAJESTIC HOTEL & SPA RESORTITA ITA PARKHOTEL SCHÖNBLICK ITA ROYAL HOTEL HINTERHUBER ITA GRAND HOTEL LIBERTY ITA GRAND HOTEL RIVA ITA HOTEL ANTICO BORGO ITA HOTEL EUROPA ITA HOTEL LIDO PALACE ITA HOTEL LUISE ITA HOTEL PORTICI ITA HOTEL SOLE RELAX ITA VILLA NICOLLI ITA HOTEL LEON D’ORO ITA HOTEL BELLERIVE ITA HOTEL LAURIN ITA HOTEL SALÒ DU PARC ITA RIVALTA LIFE STYLE HOTEL ITA HOTEL ORSO GRIGIO ITA HOTEL VILLA STEFANIA ITA NATURHOTEL LEITLHOF ITA PARKHOTEL SOLE PARADISO ITA POST HOTEL ITA RESIDENCE SILVIA ITA SPORTHOTEL TYROL ITA ZIN SENFTER RESIDENCE ITA HOTEL LA VETTA ITA HOTEL LADINIA ITA RENÈ DOLOMITES BOUTIQUE ITA X ALP HOTEL ITA HOTEL MONTE SELLA ITA CHRISTOPHORUS MOUNTAIN ITA HOTEL AL SONNENHOF ITA HOTEL CHALET CORSO ITA HOTEL CONDOR ITA HOTEL MAREO DOLOMITES ITA HOTEL TERESA RESIDENCE PLAN DE CORONES ITA ITA SPORTHOTEL EXCLUSIVE ITA HOTEL BAITA FIORITA HOTEL RESIDENCE 3 SIGNORI ITA ITA HOTEL VEDIG ITA CHABERTON LODGE ITA HOTEL LA TORRE ITA RELAIS DES ALPES AGRITURISMO MASO LARCIUNEI ITA ITA APARTMENTS SUNELA ITA ARTHOTEL ANTERLEGHES ITA ASTOR SUITES B&B ITA BIANCANEVE FAMILY HOTEL ITA BOUTIQUE HOTEL NIVES ITA CHALET ELISABETH ITA GRANBAITA DOLOMITES ITA HOTEL AARITZ ITA HOTEL ACADIA ITA HOTEL ALPENROYAL ITA HOTEL ANTARES ITA HOTEL CHALET S ITA HOTEL CONTINENTAL ITA HOTEL DORFER ITA HOTEL FANES ITA HOTEL FREINA ITA HOTEL GARNI DOLOMIEU ITA HOTEL GENZIANA ITA HOTEL MIRAVALLE ITA HOTEL OSWALD HOTEL PORTILLO DOLOMITES ITA ITA HOTEL SOMONT ITA HOTEL SUN VALLEY ITA HOTEL TYROL ITA HOTEL WELPONER ITA LUXURY CHALET PLAZOLA ITA MOUNTAIN DESIGN HOTEL MOUNTAIN HOME VILLA ANNA ITA ITA RESIDENCE ISABELL ITA RESIDENCE VILLA FUNTANES RESIDENCE VILLA GRAN BAITA ITA THE LAURIN SMALL&CHARMING ITA ITA WELLNESS RESIDENCE VILLA ITA RESIDENCE VILLA AL SOLE ITA HOTEL TRE CIME SESTO ALPENWELLNESSHOTEL ST.VEIT ITA ITA APARTMENTS RIEGA ITA BERGHOTEL SEXTEN ITA CIMA DODICI B&B ITA FAMILY RESORT RAINER ITA HOTEL ALPENBLICK ITA HOTEL DOLOMITENHOF ITA HOTEL MONIKA ITA HOTEL MONTE CROCE ITA BAD MOOS ITA GRAND HOTEL SESTRIERE ITA HOTEL CRISTALLO ITA HOTEL IL FRAITEVINO HOTEL SHACKLETON MOUNTAIN ITA ITA PRINCIPI DI PIEMONTE ITA ACTIVEHOTEL DIANA ARTNATUR DOLOMITES HOTEL ITA ITA HOTEL WALDRAST DOLOMITI ITA MIRABELL ALPINE GARDEN ITA NATUR RESIDENCE ITA SCHWARZER ADLER ITA SENSORIA DOLOMITES ITA DOLMITES NATURE ITA BAD RATZES ITA HOTEL CEVEDALE PARADIES MOUNTAIN RESORT ITA ITA GRAND HOTEL DELLA POSTA ITA GRAND HOTEL BRISTOL ITA GRAND HOTEL DES ILES ITA HOTEL ASTORIA ITA HOTEL LA PALMA ITA HOTEL MILAN SPERANZA ITA HOTEL REGINA PALACE ITA HOTEL EDELHOF ITA HOTEL IL CERVO ITA CURT DI CLEMENT ECO ITA HOTEL CENTRALE ITA HOTEL DOSSES ITA ALPINHOTEL VAJOLET ITA GRAND HOTEL TREMEZZO ITA HOTEL LENNO ITA ALBERGO ACCADEMIA ITA BOUTIQUE EXCLUSIVE B&B ITA GRAND HOTEL TRENTO ITA HOTEL AMERICA ITA HOTEL BUONCONSIGLIO ITA BÄRENHOTEL ITA BERGHOTEL HOTEL ITA HOTEL CHRISTOPH ITA KRONPLATZ-RESORT ITA HOTEL DU LAC ITA HOTEL ROYAL VICTORIA ITA HOTEL VILLA CIPRESSI ITA GRAND HOTEL MAJESTIC ITA HOTEL ANCORA ITA HOTEL BELVEDERE ITA HOTEL PALLANZA ITA GRAND HOTEL MIRAMONTI ITA HOTEL DELLE ALPI ITA HOTEL RESTAURANT LILIE ITA WELLNESS PARADISE

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LAST WORD

BY DAVIDE FIORASO

This time is foreign to us. This historic place does not belong to us. We are alone. Alone with the truest part of ourselves, yet the most alien one. We don't show it to anyone, hidden from others for fear that it won't be accepted. In a world where everything needs to be falsified in order to be understood, those who show their self unaltered by social constructs, clichés and prejudices are condemned to loneliness. We live by identifying, comparing ourselves, allying ourselves with others. Do we know how to live without it? This phase of humanity makes us understand how much of our personality depends on the outside, on superficiality.

Shame, envy, competitions vanish together with the social game, in which

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what wins is the appearance, not the real self. Those who show off, those who boast, those who lie to themselves. About their own weaknesses, their own frailties, their own failures.

Because we are no longer allowed or accustomed to failure. You don't get forgiven, because of the belief that you can't make mistakes. But if we all looked inside ourselves, we would discover a reality that screams. Clusters of souls wandering aimlessly. And this false truth leads us to mask with shame our legitimate ignorance towards life and its meaning. To build our alter egos, perfect but fake reflections.

So what are we without all this? What do we stand for when we have no one to show it to? Perhaps we will find

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ourselves faced with ourselves, and we will have to make it up to us for not accepting ourselves. For trying at all costs to mold ourselves according to society. We will have to ask ourselves forgiveness for all the times we covered our mouths. We will finally be forced to meet. To ask ourselves what remains of us without the noise of the community and conformism. Without our designer clothes, fake smiles, plastic friendships, imitated ideas. What remains true when we strip ourselves of falsehood?

“True solitude is a place that lives for itself and has no trace or voice for you, and where therefore you are the stranger.”

- Luigi Pirandello, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

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