The video dispatch and a selection of backstage images from the fourth dispatch of “On the trail of the glaciers – Alps 2020”, mission “Alps 2021”:
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Oct072021
23 – 27 August 2021 Today our target is the Rhone Glacier, which we will meet on our way from Valais to Engadine. We have with us some shots of mid-19th century that show the valley, from which the roads to the Furka and Grimsel passes start, completely invaded by the glacier front, at that
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15 – 18 August 2021 – Zermat Today is the 15th of August and me and my travel companions Marco Manni and Dario Alaimo find ourselves in the Valais Canton in Switzerland. As scheduled, we reach Zermat and then climb to the Gornegrat (3,100 meters) with the characteristic cogwheel train. From this mountain, we can
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6 – 9 August 2021 We are finally off! Direction Ailfroide in France. As first stop of the expedition, we will visit the Écrins Massif, where the Barre des Écrins is located, the only 4,000m of this mountain range and also the most western and southern of the Alps. I already visited the area during
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Having completed our fieldwork in the Marmolada group, we resume our journey towards Friuli Venezia-Giulia. Approaching the Falzarego Pass, we cross the valleys most affected by the Vaia storm, the extreme weather event caused by the tropicalisation of the Mediterranean climate. With its destructive power, it put down millions of fir trees in just 4
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August 25, 2020 The activity on the Adamello starts from the “Mandrone, City of Trento” Refuge, which is located in a wonderful position in the middle Genoa Valley. We wake up very early, invigorated by a breath-taking landscape, to go and find some photographic points we had identified during the pre-expedition in the summer of
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14 August – Fellaria Glacier After the mission dedicated to the east face of Monte Rosa, we move to Lombardy, more precisely to Val Malenco. We are guests at Camilla’s “B&Be Happy” and her companion and mountain guide Giovanni Ongaro, both of them are good climbers. The weather forecast looks good and the day before
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August 8-9, Macugnaga – Joderhorn It is the first time I see the east face of Monte Rosa live, but I could not imagine it would be so impressive. I have seen and photographed many great mountains during my expeditions in the Himalayas and Karakorum, but now I understand why the east face of Monte
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August 1, 2020 – Valnontey, Alpe Money Valnontey is a wonderful hollow north of the Gran Paradiso. Here, in the early morning, after having loaded the necessary equipment in our backpacks, we dive into the larch woods that populate the valley bottom still in the shade, with the glaciers that can be seen perched in
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Aug062020
July 24 –On the way to Valle D’Aosta Finally we’re off! First stop in Milan to meet all the researchers of the State University, then in Turin where, at the National Mountain Museum, the exhibition “On the trail of the glaciers” is in progress (until August 30). From this place, which is the historical seat
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Jul062020
As soon as the lockdown mesh was loosened, I resumed the iconographic research work for the Alps 2020 expedition that started about 2 years ago. I was supposed to come here in Trento in March and April but, due to the healthcare emergency, I postponed the visit to the Historical Photographic Archive of the Superintendence
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Dec202019
This stage of my research in Milan has been rich, not only in iconographic material, but also in beautiful surprises and human encounters of great depth. In the Luigi Gabba’s library of the Italian Alpine Club in Milan, I found a great variety of authors, a very interesting photographic archive on the Alps and a