The expedition moves on at a rapid pace. Over the past couple of days we have climbed up the Ghunsa river valley towards the base camp of the world’s third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. The Himalayan mountain landscapes that surround us are simply breathtaking and the sense of awe they provoke has helped us cope with
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May022018
After making some last-minute purchases in Kathmandu’s legendary Pilgrim Bookstore we took a scheduled flight to Badrapur, a small town in western Nepal where our guide, Prem, was expecting us.
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Apr222018
We finally left Rome Airport on a flight bound for New Delhi on April 20th. We checked in more than 250Kg of baggage, including photographic and scientific equipment and other material required for a long expedition. We made sure there was enough space for three litres of top quality olive oil, a good supply of
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Jan242018
It is very exciting this research work … but also very difficult and complicated to recognize the geographical places in an area as vast as the Everest area, the highest mountain in the world. I have to cross a huge amount of data, from the historical photographs I have to recognize the glaciers, valleys, mountain
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Dec052017
Back from London, my journey for iconographic research and new partnerships for the next expedition “On the trail of the glaciers – Himalaya 2018” continues in northern Italy. Bergamo, Milan and then Parma to meet the journalist Marcello Rossi who will participate in the expedition. Yesterday hectic but very profitable day. In Turin I met
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Nov302017
I spent two whole days selecting the 1657 photographic prints of George Mallory’s expeditions at Everest in 1921 and 1922 at the Royal Geographical Society, I interpreted as many captions, recognized the mountains and glaciers portrayed in photos on historical maps, comparing them to satellite images of Google Earth … a long, meticulous, tiring and
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Today I have seen mythical photographs that have made not only the history of mountaineering but also exploration and geography. I began the long work of selection and geographical recognition of the huge archive produced by the British expeditions to Everest. I will never take 3 days, I have to study and select over 15,000
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Il 18 marzo, partiamo da El Calafate (Argentina) per raggiungere il team di ingegneri e geologi a Balmaceda in Cile per poi proseguire il giorno seguente con le jeep verso la località da cui raggiungeremo il ghiacciaio Exploradores per poter svolgere le attività scientifiche di monitoraggio.
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Apr142016
(Italiano) Fitz Roy e Cerro Torre due mitiche montagne, nell’immaginario collettivo le più difficili al mondo. Sabato 12 marzo la nostra avventura inizia da El Chalten, piccolo paese all’interno del Parco Nazionale Los Glaciares a poche ore a piedi dalle grandi montagne.
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Here we are again, just about to set off from Puerto Natales in Chile to make our way to El Calafate in Argentina, the glacier capital, where we will be carrying out expedition work in the Parco Nacional Los Glaciares.
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February 21st – we are now getting into the heart of the expedition in the Torri del Paine National Park in Chile, drawing up initial plans to find the exact spots where Alberto De Agostino took his photographs of the park’s glaciers.
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The first week of the expedition is dedicated to carrying out photographic research and last minute logistics.