Idea Montagna Il Grande Libro Delle Creste mountaineering guidebook* Ice & Mountain Guidebooks|Ice And Mountaineering Guidebooks

Idea Montagna Il Grande Libro Delle Creste: The orography of the world, when you think about it, has always influenced mankind in the division of states, peoples, and religions. Man has used rock and water as pretexts to assert sovereignty over a territory. Ridges, spines, and rivers have always created divisions. I am on one side, you are on the other. But there are men who traverse those dividing lines, who sail them and who climb them, connecting two points and observing closely or from above those two different worlds, recognizing their differences and interpreting their affinities. While the sailor descends towards the sea, the mountaineer, going in the opposite direction, aims for the summit of a mountain starting from below, conquering that world suspended between two others. Both the sailor and the mountaineer, perhaps unknowingly, are bearers of peace, uniting, even with just their gaze, those two sides, giving each the same dignity, despite their differences. The high mountain ridge is the ultimate expression of division, but those who traverse it have the opportunity to be an ideal symbol of union. Upon reaching the summit, the orographic confluence point of two sides, the mountaineer meets the man from the other world, different but similar to him, who, driven by an arcane attraction, has traversed the opposite ridge. The ridge competes with the wall for the beauty of the mountain. On the wall, you are protected but exposed to falling rocks and ice; on the ridge, you are exposed to the abyss but protected by the will of the mountain. Two mirrored worlds, where one ends and the other begins.
Wall: difficulty, closure, sense of protection.
Ridge: exposure, vision, vertigo.
These last three words encapsulate the essence of this book. For Marco, it is the work of a lifetime, the symbol of his mountaineering, a journey made of walls but above all of ridges, of these dividing lines that condense into a point of union. A monumental, meticulous, important work to give meaning to a life spent among those rocks and ice ().