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Banglavenice explores and questions the coexistence with water in Venice. The narrative key is the experience of some Venetian citizens intertwined with that of some migrants from Bangladesh, who after leaving a country increasingly affected by the effects of global warming, find in Venice a continuity with the places they come from. It is an observational documentary in which the subjects are portrayed in their everyday life, their stories united and linked by the element of water, which, like a subtext, is a precious testimony and unequivocally translates the essence of Venice. 

Riccardo Bee was one of the most talented rock climbers of his time, but his climbing feats are shrouded in mystery. Forty years after his death, L’ULTIMA VIA DI RICCARDO BEE is not intended as a celebration of his greatness as a climber, but rather wishes to grasp the legacy of a husband, father and friend obliged by a sort of enchantment to constantly challenge himself. 

Corvaz is a simple and instinctive thirty-year-old man who works hard in his father’s vineyard and adores wandering around with his dog Toni. Life in the mountain village all centres on the bar, owned by a wealthy winemaker/landowner and managed by his son’s girlfriend. The men pass their time drinking, in an environment marked by resentment and false friendships, when one night, the wooden statues standing in the square are vandalised. Corvaz is immediately blamed. Even Mara, the lively barmaid, believes that it was him. However, trying to overcome the collective hostility, she meets up with him and a friendship develops, while the community’s desire for revenge becomes increasingly stronger. The code of respect that has held them together has now been broken. 

The book tells the story of the first festival in the world - founded by the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) and the Municipality of Trento in 1952 - dedicated to mountain cinema in an original way, through the words of its main ambassadors who come from the world of mountaineering and culture. The work also features part of the materials from the exhibition created specifically to celebrate the anniversary and is the result of a collaboration between the Trento Film Festival, the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino and Montura Srl.

An enchanting wood – ideally in Val di Sella – an owl respected by all, Doctor Paletto, and a group of interesting and curious animals: these are the ingredients of a modern fairy tale, told in the words of Nadia Dalmaso, a teacher at the schools of Borgo Valsugana, and illustrations by Gianfranco Tomio, eclectic artist, painter and musician. A book dedicated to primary school children, but also aimed at parents, educators and those who still feel like a child despite their age, to spread knowledge of the area and guide them towards the beauty of nature. The work is part of the collaboration project with the Rarahil Memorial School of Kirtipur/Kathmandu in Nepal, conceived by the mountaineer and naturalist Fausto De Stefani together with Fondazione Senza Frontiere Onlus.

Fausto and Simone are two climbers who are very different in terms of age and background, with different ways of looking at the world but a common vision: the search, both interior and exterior, for discovery, at a measured pace, encounters and relationships with others, love for the land and the mountains, an inner quest for a sustainable balance and a high summit. The vision becomes a reality as they learn about the land and culture of Nepal. 

 Director: Alessandro D’Emilia e Katia Bernardi 
Production: Mountain Film Crew, Montura, Adv Productions, Triangololab 
Lenght: 26’ 
Year: 2023 

Fausto De Stefani was the second Italian mountaineer and the sixth in the world to have completed the ascent of all mountains higher than eight thousand metres. But he never bragged about this and after completing this "collection" he dedicated his life to reaching a more important peak, his 15th eight-thousander, that is, the creation together with the Fondazione Senza Frontiere Onlus of the Rarahil Memorial School, a school in Nepal that hosts over a thousand children and teenagers. The book collects the texts of the homonymous theatrical show conceived by the Compagnia (S)legati - born Mattia Fabris and Jacopo Maria Bicocchi - and is illustrated by the artists Michele Avigo, Agnese Blasetti and Micol Ceoletta. The proceeds from the sale of the work are intended to finance the school.

In light of recent scientific discoveries, this book attempts to find plausible traces and different hypotheses, in order to get to the bottom of the complex evolutionary journey that characterises the history of Humankind. Shamanism and Neurotheology are the common themes explored to seek, through the millennia-old path of the Origins of Healing, a new approach for re-examining—in detail—Sacred aspects and the religious meaning of existence.

   A journey spanning the past and present, full of accounts and reflections that tell the story of writer Mario Rigoni Stern (1921-2008). Over the course of a fictional day, from daybreak to starry night, his voice, borrowed from a vast, extensive archive, looks back on years of war and imprisonment. Back home, the former Alpini corps Sergeant has become the Guardian of the Asiago Plateau over time, and his homeland has become symbolic of a world we need to protect from war and neglect

After thirty years of public life and thirty books to her name, Susanna Tamaro has decided to remove the mask she's always hidden behind to tell the world who she wants to be: Susanna. She's doing away with that protective filter that has alienated her from the world around her and concealed a characteristic that, until recently, she couldn't put a name to. A disorder that, throughout her life, has made her feel different and one that she's finally ready to share with the world: Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Katia Bernardi              
Length: 73'        
Year: 2022

    A journey into the history of man's relationship with bears in Trentino. Various figures create a jigsaw of perspectives spanning pre-history, history, the struggle to protect the animals, the great re-population project, and the present day. The documentary leaves us with lots of questions, without losing sight of reality: the co-habitation of bears and human beings creates unavoidable conflicts and requires firm commitment from everyone affected.

"Un Viaggio sulle Alpi" (An Alpine Journey) is the account of a two thousand kilometre-long journey along the Alpine arc.
Two of today's influential travellers—anthropologist Annibale Salsa and writer and former editor of the Meridiani Montagne magazine Marco Albino Ferrari—took part in the journey. A voyage into the cultural landscape of Europe's largest mountain range, from the summits to the valley floor, immersed in its wondrous sounds. A complex mosaic that took shape by following the network of paths that have surrounded the Alps over time.

    It's 2008, right at the beginning of the great financial crisis. Maria (Carlotta Antonelli) is a race-walking athlete. Her proud Dad (Paolo Calabresi) wants to see her realise her dreams of success. Her Mum (Anna Ferruzzo), on the other hand, is more sceptical, though her partner Johnny (Libero De Rienzo), who's almost twice her age, knows just how to keep Maria and her parents' dream alive. Johnny has a fridge full of vials, having helped lots of young people with illegal substances in the past as an athletic coach. One of these, Tom (Primo Reggiani), is looking for Johnny, as he holds him responsible for the fact that doping has ruined his career and...

  In a snowy and cold winter night a young novice veterinarian has to fight against the unexpected adversity of life to demonstrate to herself and to a gruff and old mountain farmer of being able to carry out her mission: give birth to the beloved Bufera, cow queen of the stable. It’s a matter of life or death.

    "Sarabanda a filo di cielo" (Sarabande on the Edge of Heaven) is a film directed by Luca Bich and Gian Luca Rossi, produced by L'Eubage with the support of Cervino Cinemountain. It began with an idea by the musician Mario Brunello, shared and developed by Montura and Forte di Bard, then enthusiastically taken up by the great mountaineer Nives Meroi, one of the first women in the world to have climbed all 14 8,000-metre-high mountains.      

"Il sentiero invisibile" (The invisible path) is a documentary written and directed by Pietro Bagnara.

Let's imagine that the mountain is a large platform for the emotions, uncertainties and passions that push us to seek, within ourselves, the motivations we need to move forward and better understand who we are. In "Il sentiero invisibile", the two stories presented begin and unfold in very different ways, yet the pursuits and intentions at the heart of them often unite them in a way that's surprisingly natural despite the obvious differences. 

Anastatic reprint of the original work published in Parma in 1929 by Studio Editoriale della Stamperia Bodoniana. Initiative promoted by the "Teatro alla Moda" Association of Venice as part of the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, in collaboration with Montura Editing.

This book supports the international solidarity project "Una Ger per tutti - A Ger for Life" in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

50 years of history of the Verona CNSAS station since 1971, the year it was set up. A journey through historical stages, divided into decades, to present the rescuers and the activities carried out.

The book supports the "Rarahil Memorial School" in Kirtipur (Nepal), a school created by Fondazione Senza Frontier Onlus.

A child dreams of going to Mars. Forty years later that child, now a man, crosses on foot, alone, the 1,100 km of rub'al-khali, the immense desert that the Bedouins call the empty quarter, a tongue of sand so imposing that it was baptized the "fourth part”after earth, sky and sea.

In between life, successes and failures, great enterprises and studies on the microbiome, love for science and nature, in short, everything that has led Max Calderan to be one of the most multifaceted and multifaceted personalities of our time.

The book describes the musical tracks specially created by Luciano Bosi and Patrizio Ligabue (contained in the attached CD and which can also be downloaded for free at this link) with original and often unique instruments to accompany the reader of " Il Grande Viaggio - Lungo le carovaniere della Via della Seta" by David Bellatalla and Stefano Rosati (Montura Editing, 2021).

The book supports the projects "Ger For Life" and "Casa Need You" carried out in Ulan Bator (Mongolia) by Need You Onlus in collaboration with Montura, Red Cross Mongolia and Rotary.

    Women of The Outermost Lands" is a human research journey focused on the reality of the world of women that the author has encountered in regions of the Earth considered geographically extreme. Women and places on the margins. In the desert depression of Ethiopia's Danakil Desert, on the inaccessible island of Socotra (Yemen), on the remote highlands of Western Mongolia, on the borders of Siberia. The aim of the project is to bear witness to the cohesion of the world of women, to a tacit "social

The Turra family comes from Primiero. Two brothers and one sister, all in their thirties, heirs to the family business divided between the farm in Tonadico and mountain grazing. We meet the Turras in Malga Venegiota, a long-standing mountain pasture situated at the bottom of Val Venegia, facing the Pale di San Martino. Taking a herd up into the mountains for grazing in the twenty-first century requires extra professional skills, starting with hospitality, despite the limits imposed by Covid-19.

Laura Rogora is the first woman in Italian history to have qualified as a sport climber in the Tokyo Olympic Games 2021. She is also the first Italian woman to have climbed a “9b” route (and only the second woman in the world to have done this) and the first Italian woman to have won a stage in the Lead Climbing World Cup. There is much more to say about her, linked to her determination as well as her ability to dream.

Alessandro de Bertolini and his twenty-two-month-old son Lorenzo spent ten days cycling in the Brenta Dolomites with only a tent and sleeping bag. The documentary, centring on the relationship between father and son, examines the cultural values of the Natural Park and the almost legendary significance of the Brenta Dolomites, retracing the adventures of the first Alpine travellers from the Victorian era.

In autumn shepherds leave the Alps for the lowlands, in search of grass, returning only in the spring. Today, transhumance is in the hands of young men and women who are aware they have been entrusted with ancient knowledge, connected to traditions but also projected into a global context. The Baldessari from Val di Fiemme, known as the Digas, have been among these transhumance shepherds for four generations. For them, the rules of the game have changed. This is a result of increased urbanisation, the return of large predators, Covid-19 and a less predictable market, which has moved from local butchers to shiploads travelling to Libya.

    Master Mario Brunello decided to take on Bach's violin repertoire with a new interpretation for small cello of the wonderful Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. The Cachonne in D minor, universally recognised as an outstanding masterpiece of the solo instrument repertoire, resonates in the lunar landscape of the Etna volcano in a performance which is impressive for its sound impact, following an ascent from the north side accompanied by Bach's music, in search of new routes and new unheard sounds.

    "God won't ask me how many mountains I've conquered but what I've done for others." This is Armando Aste’s message, one of the most influential post-WWII Italian mountaineers, who died in his native Rovereto in 2017. The documentary shows the film directors in the places that contributed to the formation of the man and alpinist, going to the origins of his Faith. The journey ends in Africa, at the inauguration of a hospital built with a donation by Aste. A reflection on the values inspired by the mountain opens up a reflection on man and his limits.

    Eighty-seven years after the first mountaineering ascent ever made in the Sarca Valley, this film aims to take stock of the mountaineering history of the valley’s rock faces, which today attract enthusiasts from all over the world. The account relies on climbing scenes and interviews with the main protagonists, surrounded by the splendid beauty of the valley. It is the story of an important laboratory linking two trends, mountaineering and sport, in search of either balance or the extreme. With the participation of Adam Ondra.

    Kinnaur is a tribal district in the Indian Himalayas located on the fragile border between India and China. It is a place of spirits and high peaks where the cult of grokch survives, oracles who go into a trance and are possessed by the divinity, performing exorcisms and healings. After centuries of isolation, in recent decades the area has had to face the challenges of modernity. The film is the result of seven months of fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2019, combining journalistic reporting and ethnographic research.

    Franco Nicolini, Michele Leonardi, Tommy and Silvestro Franchini have a secret dream: linking up the 13 highest peaks in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. On 20 February, only 6 days after their departure, they had already reached the top of Aconcagua. Then they climbed the other mountains in quick succession, drawing important life lessons from the local people they met. After a series of long transfers they reached the top of Cerro Sajama on 6 April, thus concluding their human and sporting adventure.

    The "Kamana Sailing Expedition" team led by Skipper Enrico Tettamanti was the first Italian crew to complete the "Northwest Passage", sailing from west to east along Route 6. Plum ended the voyage, arriving in Aasiaat, Greenland, after 33 days of hard sailing and having travelled over 3,500 miles. Enrico was accompanied by his wife Giulia, little Kai (one and a half) and companions of adventure David and Anna Serra with the four children - Sofia, Tommaso, Anita and Filippo between the ages of 8 and 14. And also the amazing Mafio De Luca with “baker” Marcello Corsi. The book is the diary of this extraordinary sailing expedition in the Arctic, along one of the routes that has become a part of the history of adventure.

    Life in the Andes, influenced by the beauty of the mountains and the simple shepherds who live there, has touched the hearts of some mountaineers. In 1993 the tragedy that struck Bonali and Ducoli along Via Casarotto on the north face of Huascaran Norte in Peru seemed to put an end to a dream that had just begun. Father Ugo De Censi, founder of Operation Mato Grosso (OMG), did not give up and, assisted by friends and volunteers, began his mountaineering adventure in the Andes with the motto "climb high to help those who are low". In this way the idea of building the Andean refuges and the "Don Bosco en los Andes" school of guides in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru was conceived to give hope to the local youth.

    Far from adopting a monothematic approach, the book recounts and illustrates, through the journeys made by the authors, the most significant cultural, artistic, historical and religious aspects highlighting links, contacts, exchanges and social interactions that, even today, through the testimonies of the past and of the communities living in these territories, stimulate us to re-read the history of the Silk Road as an outstanding World Heritage Site. The work includes a series of original topographic maps edited by Montura Maps, one of which is printed in large format and attached to the volume. The book also contains photos taken by Fabio Bucciarelli and images provided by the "Martino Martini" Study Centre at the University of Trento.

     Arte Sella, Trentino a place where in more than thirty years the mountain and contemporary art meet. Art and Nature merge in a continuous dialogue, where Artists from all over the world are invited to encounter the Sella Valley to carry out artworks that are nourished by the unique History and nature of the place. In a period of thirty years dance, music and art in all its forms have assiduously attended the paths of Arte Sella, giving way to unique projects and events, for  example Fucina Arte Sella and La Natura del Pensiero.

     The legend of the town of Agònia comes true!
Within sight of the Dolomites’ most famous trio of peaks - the Cime di Lavaredo - at Cima Gogna in Auronzo you’ll find Alpstation Lavaredo: in the very place where the earliest settlement east of the Pale Mountains is said to have stood.
     Here valleys, watercourses and roads meet on their way to and from Comelico, Carnia and Cadore, enriching this area with mineral-filled waters, history and legends.
Montura and Alpstation Lavaredo are undertaking the very first archaeological dig.

Forte di Bard is an imposing military structure built in the first half of the 19^th century atop a rock spur at the entrance to the Valle d’Aosta. Thanks to comprehensive restoration work, the fortress is now a cultural and tourist centre that houses museums, international exhibitions, events, and state-of-the-art information and hospitality services. A distinctive feature of the Forte in its current form are the modern architectural structures capable of blending military facilities and new technologies.

     During the time that rock climbing was becoming popular and taking shape, on the edges of the Valle del Sarca in Trentino province, in the village of Dorsino at the feet of the Brenta Dolomites, a cliff was bolted and then abandoned. 
     This was a cliff that possessed all the aesthetic and scalability features to make it utterly unique. The Dolomiti Open Association was created to and has committed itself to reopening this cliff and restoring this "Mona Lisa" of climbing to rock climbers everywhere. Through the donations of over 400 people via a crowd funding campaign and local companies and associations, Dolomiti Open has collected over 20,000 Euro in 40 days, forming the groundwork to give new life to the Falesia Dimenticata (the Forgotten Cliff).

     Opened in 2013, MUSE is a dream that came true thanks to an investment in culture provided by the Autonomous Province of Trento. Within the museum, the public is the real star of the visit: multimedia exhibits, interactive games, first-person experimentations and an interweaving of culture with "doing" in a practical way – these are the tools with which to build your own vision of the world and to participate in the scientific debate on major local and global issues.

     The "GER FOR LIFE" project is coordinated by David Bellatalla and the Mongolia Red Cross, and is aimed at single mothers with disabled children living in the Chingeltei district of the city of Ulan Bator (Mongolia).

     The goal is to guarantee the children a home, security and medical assistance, and to support their mothers through their insertion in the world of employment, with a view to building self-reliance and self-sufficiency for the families.

     Anthropologist David Bellatalla has undertaken several research projects in Centre and South America, Asia and Australia, and published numerous books, scientific articles and documentaries.

     A journey started many years ago from a dream of Fausto De Stefani, Uno Montura. The foundation "Senza Frontiere" - Onlus supports aid and self-development projects in developing contries, like the "Rarahil" project in Kirtipur, a small village not far from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. Rarahil Memorial School is an education centre focused on giving new opportunities to joung people.
     The school needs to be modernized and enlarged, in order to offer better accomodation and new services fo the students. The new building, in fact, will host some fundamental structures fot the school: a new canteen, a modern and functional kitchen, the laboratories and many new rooms for the students.

     Montura supports the activities of Operazione Mato Grosso in Peru. The education and social project was founded in Val Formazza in 1967 by Salesian priest Ugo de Censi, and through the building of the 'Claudio e Bruno' mountain refuge, it has led in time to the establishment of an international bond of solidarity between Italy and South America. Operazione Mato Grosso (OMG) is active on several fronts, in particular in the Andes, where it has built up a network of guest houses and founded a local organisation of mountain guides.

     The Woody Ark is a TV series that tells stories of people connected to each other by a common scenario: the mountain and the choice of the extreme.
     The mountain is the omnipresent scenario and the interpretative key of these stories, described as a acconplice and fearful companion, the background of a particular way of living. The feeling of the limit challenge, the risk calculation and the desire to follow passions, become the main drivers.
     The series intends to bring out the shadows of the protagonists, the inner contrast between the choice of an extreme life and the crazy pleasure of living it.

     Alessandro left for California on 25 May 2017. He planned to cross North America by bicycle from San Francisco to the Arctic Ocean. In the middle there were the great American parks, the deserts and grasslands of the West, ascents in the Rocky Mountains, the silence of Canada and the infinite solitude of Alaska. In all, 10,300 kilometres and 90 days. «We all go forth to seek America, and in the seeking we create her»: Waldo Frank, 1920s.

     "Visioni in Movimento FVG” is a so-called “Scuola di Cinema senza Sedie” (Filming on the Road Training Programme) which was conceived and organised by Associazione Mattador from Trieste and Visionaria from Siena. After its first edition in Tuscany, the project is now taking place in Friuli Venezia Giulia, along the 70 km pathway linking Trieste to Aquileia.
     The two audiovisual winning projects, selected by a jury of professionals, aim to narrate the Territory while attending a 30-day Art Residency.

     Hands in action, hands that bear the signs of action. Hands at prayer: in some places, prayer remains sacred, an action made with the whole body, through gestures. Hands that touch and clasp: hands soiled by life. Hands that touch and clasp in the original, time-honoured gesture of recognition towards another. Hands worn by time and the elements. Little hands reaching out to larger hands. It may be a coincidence, but all of these hands have been pictured in Asia and Africa, far from our Western world, where our hands now do little more than tap away on a keyboard.

     Photographic and sociological trekking trips in Trentino. A linguistic paradox? No: the aim is to follow paths, using your sense of direction to make your way through images that appear significantly distant from one another in terms of subject, technique used and artistic characteristics.
     Views of both human and natural landscapes fill the pages of a volume that brings together six of Italy’s top photographers and photo journalists, guiding a further 50 photographers in a project that allowed them to explore and discover areas comprising the Val di Fiemme and Val di Fassa, Rovereto and Vallagarina, Lake Garda and Comano, Bleggio, Lomaso, the Pinè Plateau and the Cembra Valley, the Valsugana and Tesino.

     Fabulous, in the original sense of the term. Simply a fable of the kind we used to listen to as children, using words accessible to little folk, yet aimed at grown-ups, with a coloured picture or two thrown in.
     The story of a storyteller: an aging wanderer travelling from one village to the next, his bag packed with legends and stories kids looked forward to with the eager anticipation reserved for special events. And the voice and hands of the wanderer would take his listeners through uncharted territory every time: this is the power, this is the allure of storytelling.

     A borderline project, in the literal sense that it explores the very meaning of the term “border”. The whole project revolves around the figure of Nives Meroi, a woman with an extreme, visceral relationship with the mountain, a borderline area by definition. This volume contains not only the words that appear in her accounts, but also images, of a white other than the white of the snow, portrayed in the photos of Linda Abdul, together with the poetry of a third woman, Alda Merini.
     Visual poetry, poetry in words, accounts of climbs undertaken by Nives in the company of Romano Benet, her inseparable companion both in life and the adventures that are an integral part of it. Here too are the images of the major mountains of Tashi Yangzom, who portrays his fellow Tibetans forced into exile, together with more landscapes.

     A huge number of photos, a small number of words. Mountains, rocks, vertical walls, or worse. Tensed, darting muscles, concentration written all over the climber’s face. Other faces, too, the faces of folk encountered along the way. People, or animals. Company. Cats, dogs, sheep, horses. And a tale or two, snapshots of life, real or imagined, portraits of men and landscapes, all part of recollections of a long career – on the up all the time – and reflections on Man and his surroundings, the environment that welcomes him, pushes him onwards and upwards, sometimes annihilates him.
     Montura Editing devotes an original monograph to Maurizio Zanolla, better known as Manolo, a living legend of climbing and man of the mountains in every sense, as seen in his poetry and writings.

     “Manuel loves the great outdoors, and has covered a whole maze of roads underfoot. He’s stuck on geography like a lovesick teenager. And he specialises in people: he’s curious. He asks questions, then falls silent and listens to the answers. Mountaineers: what kind of folk are they? The mountaineer is a wayfarer, a traveller. He has all he needs with him, he moves on foot, then forges ahead with his hands. On the way down, his face reveals the journey he’s left behind him. You’d recognise him in an eastern bazar even right in the midst of tourists packed in like sardines. He’s the odd one out. Manuel has met plenty of them, and he’s decided it’s time for an outpouring of his experience. And since he’s a man of few words, the receptacle is little bigger than a postcard”.Erri de Luca

     Dolomiti – New York City. Amid the pages of this incredible volume, the involuntary, empty rhyming couplet becomes replete with meaning: black and white photographs of the human geometries drafted and drawn by the metropolis to end all metropolises, their transparent background overlapping with the bent, tormented outlines of colourful Nature that paints brushstrokes of the mountains to end all mountains.
     Irreverent? A combination of aesthetic brilliant and fertile spirituality, for sure, especially these days in which Man’s technological, urban soul feels increasingly bereft of its ancient, natural, significant other bound to the Earth.

     An unusual mountain, by Trentino’s “picture postcard” standards. Bare, rugged, rocky, cleft, barren, almost hostile; with forbidding crevices, cavities, ravines and jagged edges whose peculiar appeal not everyone is able to grasp. Rocks shaped by the elements, more ancient even than the trees, rocks that bear witness to the history of man and nature.
     The grey here is magmatic, yet those with the patience to stop and look closer will find areas rich in colour, with a range of hidden nuances.

     Val Pusteria, a place where countries, cultures, peoples meet. Limes, a border between the earth and the sky, just like other mountain locations. The guardian of stories that have settled into the rock, constructing and crowning its identity. The Heimat: more than a native land; a cauldron bubbling with traditions, families, circumstances, customs, a thick blend of elements in which languages, habits, ways of life merge, and sometimes collide.

     Simply, the story of a competition that has entered the realm of legend, from before the beginning, almost thirty years ago, through to the future. This book contains the whole story of the Rock Master event in Arco, Trentino, told in the words and pictures of the world's top climbers, those who have made each edition a concentrate of athletic values and spectacular performances: Manolo, Heinz Mariacher, Patrick Edlinger and Francois Legrand to name but a few.
     It all began back in 1986: the rock walls of Arco, along with those of Bardonecchia, were the setting for the second edition of the Sport Roccia competition.

     Alpine guides and sales agents. Students and sherpas. Plumbers and ice climbers. Marketing consultants and mountaineers. There are many faces to life, and there are (almost) as many faces in this book. As many pieces of clothing (more or less) as the trades and passions Man's life is made of.
     An unusual catalogue in some ways, an original, surprising look book, featuring the smiles and the (few) words of people for whom the mountain is a way of life as well as a sport; people for whom it's a place to practise a hobby, above all, for fun, or out of a desire for knowledge, new experiences, new challenges.

     “When I was little, I used to spend ages watching ants, fascinated by their incessant coming and going, up and down with no apparent destination. Know what I mean? For an ant, a pebble is like a mountain. A piece of straw represents a barrier that requires effort to overcome, while the garden grass is a jungle. I used to love shrinking to their size, getting carried away into that little world of theirs. It reminded me of Gulliver’s adventures with the giants: sometimes I’d be the giant who used to trouble them or lend a hand, other times I’d be one of them escaping from a huge beast of an insect”.         These are the reflections with which Vinicio Stefanello sets in motion this book, together with Cristian Brenna, from which there’s no going back.

     Volunteers book comes exactly one year from the start of the Winter Universiade Trentino 2013. It pays tribute to the extraordinary organizational strength of hundreds of volunteers who have allowed the most important international sporting event of the last decade in Trentino, sponsored by Montura.
     The eye of the three photographers - Graziano Panfili, Pietro Vertamy and Daniele Lira - has followed the unfolding of the twelve winter disciplines, held in ten racing locations, seeking the atmosphere of the event and the human spirit that pervades every aspect of the great international competition.

     Important publication for all lovers and scholars from a now disappeared Tibet, accompanied by a photographic apparatus of considerable value, the book fills an editorial gap and gives justice on the "foundations" of the famous Cronaca della spedizione italiana nel Tibet occidentale, published by the Reale Accademia d’Italia in 1934, signed by Ghersi and his head of mission, the great Italian orientalist Giuseppe Tucci. The text was in fact re-released in 2006 by Neri Pozza publisher with unreasonable choices, beginning with the title - Dei, demoni e oracoli. La leggendaria spedizione in Tibet del 1933 - up to the decision to remove the names of Ghersi as co-author, his memory in the introduction and omitting illustrations and map, to conclude with a questionable introductory essay, far from the spirit and teaching of Tucci.

     Skyrunner, il corridore del cielo, is a joint project by Fort Bard and Montura Editing, published by Mondadori and edited by Gabriele Accornero and Luca Masia. The book, available in bookshops and our network of Alpstation and Montura Stores from late July, tells the story of 54-year-old Bruno Brunod, born and bred in Chatillon in the Aosta Valley, world skyrunning champion and mountain racing legend.
     “Probably without knowing it, he gave wings to a sport: skyrunning. Bruno succeeded in giving mountain running a form, a mythical dimension and a visibility which has led future generations to discover this sport”. Skyrunning champion Kilian Jornet Burgada writes of Bruno Brunod.

     Kazakhstan is a photography book edited by Simone Falso which documents the first journey of FuoriRotta, a cultural action project supported by Montura and Internazionale magazine.
     A journey of freedom and discovery, travelled one day at a time far from the beaten track; a voyage towards understanding the soul of Kazakhstan through genuine dialogue with its people, personal enrichment shared through travel stories, direct experience and voices gathered while roaming the steppes, from rural village to city, in search of something perhaps never before noticed, photographed and shared.

     In nome dell'orso is a book by Matteo Zeni. Published in 2016 by Il Piviere and partially funded by Montura, the book narrates the decline and recovery of the brown bear in the Alps.
     A text that teaches us to know and relate to the bear and how to deal with our fear of the wild.

     “Hands allow a kind of knowledge that's direct, that grows and deepens through personal exposure. What passes between hands, through touch, is a skin-to-skin relationship, unrefines and visceral”. 

     Giuseppe Mazzotti’s work, first published by L’Eroica di Milano when the writer was not much more than twenty years old, is a cornerstone of Alpine literature. With its brief, incisive texts, embellished by Canciàn’s illustrations, this is an enjoyable and entertaining read.
     This new edition is authorised by the Mazzotti Foundation and is part of Montura’s collaboration with the “Gambrinus” Giuseppe Mazzotti literary prize, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards, for which Montura is one of the sponsors, with a particular focus on the Juniores section.

     The shop floor and the mountains of Piemonte. For many years, beginning right after the war, with just one means of transport. The bicycle. Until the start of the economic boom in the early 60s, when even Agostino Gázzera - born 1927 and the protagonist of this story - succumbed to the spread of the automobile. A unique tale which is also a paradigm of a generation of young workers drawn to the dream of the mountains and forced to divide their time between shifts in the factory, family life and their passion for the world of the peaks. A story of courage, endurance and, at the same time, of humility. Above all, this is a lesson in life which aids reflection on a past which as yet is too recent to be filed away in the remotest crevices of the memory.

     This thing is a story. A fabric. A journey towards the Atlantic Ocean sharpening knives along the way with a motorbike as a travel companion. This is the tale of a knife grinder and you can really taste the dust. A quest as the road unfolds step by step right in front of you. A journey that needs to be told and to occupy our distraction - fully aware of the fact that a revolution, any kind of revolution, is an act of violence.
     The journey requires the surpassing of prejudices and small-mindedness. Bearer of civilization and democracy, a reflection on its meaning is now of crucial importance. FuoriRotta is a project of cultural action on the right to travel that is made through an offer of financing for young travellers who have decided to shift their gaze towards new horizons.  

    The Valsella choir honor the Master Andrea Mascagni with the production of this compilation to remember not only his wide musical heritage but also his profound humanity.

     Giuliano Carmignola and the La Gioiosa Marca for ARTESELLA - THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTAIN

     Just like when you're on a journey, and you meet people with whom you share values and interests, a similar outlook on the world, an enthusiasm for creating new opportunities. This is what happened when MONTURA's path became entwined with INTERNAZIONALE magazine, which turned out to be the perfect partner to tell the world about everything the firm is accomplishing or helping to accomplish.
 

     Fifty years after the opening of the first climbing route on Pietra del Finale, two brothers and ardent mountain enthusiasts decide to set out on an adventure, retracing the tracks of the pioneers who first began the story of climbing in this place. The result is a journey into the wild in search of memories, stories, tracks and discoveries. A vertical wandering to explore the heights and conquer the thirteen main faces of the Finale massif, but at the same time an encounter and comparison with the protagonists of days gone by, witnesses of an era that will never be repeated.

     A photography book to tell and show the Resina movie shooting by Renzo Carbonera in one of the last Cimbric villages, Luserna (Italy).
     Male choir and female director. A family and a small community need bindings, in order to face the challenges of future.
     Young cellist Maria is disappointed by ruthless music industry. She gets back to the village in the Alps where she was born, a small and isolated community where an ancient language is still spoken: Cimbric. There she finds a sick mother, a death brother after a fatal incident with his tractor, a mourning sister in law facing a financial crisis, and a small community struggling with the first effects of climate change.

     Imagine the age-old Bosnian pine trees of the Pollino massif during a winter night....a sunrise on the glacier of the Mont Blanc...the autumnal colours of the Ampezzo Dolomites...the sea of grass on the Campo Imperatore and the fireworks of the erupting Etna...mineral sanctuaries of nature, but also scenarios of alternating human events.
     With over 100 missions (almost 700 days spent in the field!) which will be finished at the end of 2018, L'Altro Versante's team will visit all Italy's most beautiful and unusual places.
     Thousands of photographs, taken during the day and at night, in all the seasons and also under less pleasant weather conditions, in order to obtain the maximum visual impact and, therefore, the most truthful portrait of the Italian natural landscape.

     Four photographers, a video maker: five glances, five views that trace the theatres of war during the First World War, an area that extends for 500 kilometres from the Tonale Pass to Mount Marmolada - the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy which formed part of the front line during that conflict.
     A collaborative photographic project in which five visual artists committed to exploring the mountains and valleys of the Trentino region in search of evidence (more or less tangible) that pays tribute to those who sacrificed their lives to fight for peace and for their country. A Homage to the Value of Peace.

     This diary of a walking trip explores the depopulation of the Apennine Region while maintaining a delicate balance between the memories and ambitions of Italy’s minor mountain range. This Off-Course journey examines the history of these mountains while taking a close look at the present and even the prospects for a future yet to be written. A narrative blend formed by stories that are interwoven like the threads of a spider’s web to reveal the soul of a “Hinterland” that is still rather unknown to the general public and rarely written about.

     As it did in 2017, once again this year Montura Editing has put together a collection of pages featured in issues of the weekly Internazionale between July 2017 and June 2018. About thirty subjects and events sponsored by Montura along with pages published to promote products (Montura “produce”) and other publishing initiatives (Montura “pubblica”). The collection also includes some pages published in issues of Internazionale EXTRA.

     Having climbed all 14 eight-thousanders and metaphorically scaled a “nine-thousander” with his extraordinary venture at the Rarahil Memorial School in Kirtipur (Kathmandu, Nepal), Fausto De Stefani now dreams up another enchanted place, a stone's throw from the crowded resorts of Lake Garda: La collina di Lorenzo (Lorenzo's hill).
     It's a paradise where children from 0 to 100 can move freely surrounded by nature, liberating their dreams of adventure. This new book, embellished by Michele Avigno's drawings and a map created jointly by Cartago and Emanuele Lamedica, once again supports the author's charity work in Nepal.

     Following the success of the diary of Eugenio Ghersi' “Sull'altopiano dell'Io sottile” (Beyond the undiscovered soul), anthropologist David Bellatalla, “father” of the charity project “Una Ger per tutti” (A Ger for All) in Ulan Bator (Mongolia), now captivates us with a new book devoted to one of the most intriguing subjects of all: shamanism.
     “Shamanism in itself is totally irrational, an unstable place where our intellect can merely skip between incomplete anecdotes and subjective interpretations, temporary authentication and explanations biased by cultural models, always bringing us back to the starting point”. Illustrated with fascinating photographs and with a foreword by Sergio Poggianella. David's new book supports the Mongolian project.

     The new route covers 430 kilometres and links Rome with L'Aquila via a total of seven protected nature reserves; it will be presented on 28 April. The coming months will see the publication of a new walking guide, the first in a new series entitled “Great Walks of Italy”, and four 1:35,000 scale maps.
     Walk in the greenest heart of central Italy on ancient tracks through areas rich in history and spirituality and those affected by earthquake. And walk to contribute to the development and real sustainability of the Italian mountains. The Cammino project will be presented in Trento in 28 April, and this book signals Montura's debut in the world of maps for walkers.

     “The emotions – positive or negative, happy or sad – transmitted by athletic activity are both a cornerstone and a focal point of education through sport. This can be seen in the faces, the expressions and the movements photographed here.” (Professor Andro Ferrari, Italian National Olympic Committee, Trentino).
     It was 2010, and Folgaria, Lavarone and Luserna were hosting the ISF World Championships. Four important, expert photographers were at work portraying youthful faces, snowy landscapes and shots of winter sports. A surprising, vivid variety of ways to illustrate the experiences the young competitors were able to undertake and enjoy for themselves and along with their peers.

     Paradise lost and the fable of Shangri-La.Snowfields and plastic, spirituality and satellite TV, the cross and the stupa. Is there another world at the edge of the world? Or simply a variant of our own?
     An original portrait of Tibet by an Italian anthropologist and a British photographer, who set off from the remote valley between China and Burma identified as the idyllic setting imagined in 1933 in Lost Horizon by James Hilton, who in fact had never set foot out of London.Thanks to the world of cinema and literature, that high-altitude Eden has become the very archetype of peaceful, smooth co-existence between different beings in the sacred mountains. 

     Mountaineering and the mountaineer. The driving force, sometimes bordering on selfishness, behind the desire to take on the mountain. A love affair gone wrong, another that rises up from the ashes of existence.
     All this and more is what happens to Roby, the anti-hero of this novel, sprinkled with a dash of mystery, during his personal journey towards revelation, a path that opens up and comes to a halt on the edge of a murder in the mountains. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Roby becomes the key figure in a tale of travels and wanderings in pursuit of a rare treasure: the meaning of life, and above all of our daily actions and choices.

     Franz Nicolini, the enchainment man. 7 peaks in 12 hours; the 82 four-thousanders in the Alps in just 60 days. Lightness, speed and freedom are the most important aspects of the equipment he takes with him into the mountains.
     In this book, several-times Italian ski mountaineering and mountaineering champion Nicolini offers a personal account of the enchainments embarked upon over the years, projects conceived and subsequently planned by consulting the host of specialised books in his collection before being prepared through the painstaking, detailed physical and mental training required to climb quickly and forge ahead safely.

     Set: the beech trees and the red and yellow fir trees of the Val Dei Mocheni, an enclave in Trentino where the ancient German dialect has been preserved in the memory of some of the locals. Action! A film about fatherhood, about the father and son relationship, about childhood and growing up. About man and about the relationship with a vigorous landscape replete with colours, fragrances and shifting scenarios. A relationship that even today can be as fertile and rewarding as it was meant to be.A series of images and casual reflections carve out an artistic, human and professional path that led to the making of Andrea Segre’s feature-length film “La Prima Neve”.

     A fearsome, but not lethal, natural disaster. The landslide that on 15 August 2010 swept away Campolongo, a little village in the municipality of Baselga di Pinè, in the province of Trento was violent enough to cause significant material damage, but fortunately no-one was killed or injured. Ninety thousand cubic metres of mud, stones and tree trunks swept away nineteen homes, forcing eighty-seven people to flee. It took six working days, thirty lorries and the contribution of eight hundred volunteers to reclaim the whole area.
     A “minor” calamity, but one that should not be forgotten.

     “I met ‘Det’ on the Lhotse, during the Cassin expedition in 1975. He was thin, with the skin on his hands as wrinkled as the bark of a larch tree, and was as quick and agile on his feet as a mountain goat. Along with Mario Curmis, he was the strongest on the expedition, never once complaining”.  “Det” is Giuseppe Alippi, the great mountaineer from Lombardy, more a “man of the mountains” than an athlete, as described in the words of Reinhold Messner, in the introduction to the book.
     This is a volume like few others: part story, part interview, part notebook, with a collection of beautiful drawings on a mountain theme by Luisa Rota Sperti.

     An effective, on-stage reconstruction of mountaineering and the extreme conditions that can occur on the rock face, pushing survival to the limits: a challenge within a challenge, tackled and brilliantly overcome in this show that walks along a dual edge throughout, illustrating the encounter between two actors/friends and the true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, which inspired them and is told in one of the world’s most widely read books on mountaineering.
     “This is the story of an ambitious dream: to be the first in the world to climb Siula Grande from the west wall. But it’s also the story of a friendship, and of the rope that during such a tremendous undertaking bound the two together, with each putting their life in the hands of the other. As is always the case in the mountains”.

     “Exploration, climbing, science, visual art and music, all brought together live in a single event to give us a pioneering nineteenth-century idea of climbing a mountain (and what a mountain! One of the earth’s giants!) and at the same time, an utterly new, futuristic concept of climbing” - these words from the Monte Analogo Association of Trieste introduce the latest work by Alberto Peruffo, Multimedia Theatre pioneer and great cultural experimenter.

     After more than 80 years of climbing, hundreds of routes opened, incredible adventures, gatherings and international competitions, the Sarca Valley has become one of the world's most important places for climbing and mountaineering.
     Now two famous names, major stars in climbing history on these walls, turn into writers of an encyclopaedic work which summarises all the walls and all the routes of the place Heinz Grill called - with a mixture of eloquence and romance - the “Valley of Light”.

    This is the story of a unique expedition. The aim is to climb the highest mountain in America, the Aconcagua summit. The surprising element is that the expedition consists of six indigenous Bolivian women. Their adventure shows the world a different and inspiring way to be a woman and how to experience tradition and relate to Mother Nature.
They will accompany us on an inner journey of human dignity, revealing the importance of being women and keeping traditions alive.

     Keno City, Yukon. In northwestern Canada, the tiny long-standing mining village that is hidden amidst the mountains, where less than 10 people can be found in the winter, is the centre of a renewed attack on resources: as with the Arctic and other areas of the Great North, Keno City is also the hub of exploration and financial speculation by mining multinationals. It is a peaceful town of humble homes that does not seem destined to survive.
     For three months in the winter, Paola Rosà and Antonio Senter experienced the day-to-day life of the town, living without running water, yet with access to the internet, attempting to glean from the residents of Keno City its present potential and future prospects, amidst myths to be reconsidered and convictions to be return to.

     The southern “wall” of the Marmolada has left its mark on the life and mountaineering development of Rolando Larcher: this outstanding climber from Trentino got to the top of the southern face when he was just 19 in 1985 and since then he has continued to look for and open up new trails on mountains all over the world.
     The last trail opened by Rolando Larcher - with Geremia Vergoni - on this wall is known as Scacciadiavoli and it pushes the free climbing difficultly grade to 8a+/8b. This route is also the occasion for Rolando to take stock of his life as a mountain climber: the way he perceives the mountain is not only made up of grades and difficulties but, first and foremost, of friendships, ethical choices, human values, and beautiful and difficult moments shared with the other mountaineers that he has climbed with.

     In the mid ‘80s, Achu Lama, a Buddhist monk, went to meditate on a sacred highland in Tibet. Gradually pilgrims, monks and nuns joined him, who would go on to found Yaqen, a boundless shanty town that is today home to around 30,000 monks, two-thirds of whom are women. This is a “Buddhist citadel” that the Chinese government has tried to raze to the ground several times.
     The women’s wing is a village of shacks where the nuns live, without care for their disastrous living conditions. They are women who are united by their spiritual quest and desire for liberation, many of whom are Han Chinese.

     The film that tells the story of the life of Hans Kammerlander, one of the greatest mountaineers of our time, will make its debut on 4 December in Vienna. This Montura spokesperson and athlete survived a dramatic mountaineering tragedy.
     The film was shot in Nepal and Italy's Alto Adige region by filmmaker Gerald Salmina and produced by Planet Watch and Panda. It has been presented in German during an extensive tour and will be in Italian movie theatres in spring 2019.

     Scattered the length of the Apennines there are hundreds of abandoned towns, villages and hamlets. These are the concrete traces of the marginality of inland areas and, at the same time, a symbol of the short-sightedness of single models of development which all too often have taken people away from their homes. Today, however, these lesser mountain areas are still inhabited. A documentary film about a journey of research and experience attempts to reconstruct the recent process of depopulation. From Emilia to Calabria, Campania to Abruzzo, stories, places and people intertwine in a single voice of the Apennines, in which similar events and traditions unite lands which may be very distant geographically, conceiving new perspectives and possible bonds at high altitude.

     Fifty years after the opening of the first climbing route on Pietra del Finale, two brothers and ardent mountain enthusiasts decide to set out on an adventure, retracing the tracks of the pioneers who first began the story of climbing in this place. The result is a journey into the wild in search of memories, stories, tracks and discoveries. A vertical wandering to explore the heights and conquer the thirteen main faces of the Finale massif, but at the same time an encounter and comparison with the protagonists of days gone by, witnesses of an era that will never be repeated.

     This film belongs in the category of “research”, because Motti's full story is yet to be explored, and the first impulse it inspires in us is to “go and find it”. The film will do this, partly with the aid of the archive material available, and partly through a chorus of voices, witness accounts and actions by those who knew him, climbed with him and were with him in his private moments, or those who, despite not having known him in person, are fascinated by his thinking and his writing.

     What to put in the suitcase? Two things are needed before taking off for a long journey. Strong motivation and someone waiting for you back home.
     Alessandro de Bertolini (born in Trento, Italy in 1979) has been a freelance journalist since 2006. He collaborates with the Corriere del Trentino newspaper, Trentino Industriale (Trento Industry Confederation) and mountain climbing magazines.

     Giampaolo Calzà, Denny Zampiccoli, Claudio Migliorini and Erica Vicenzi, a group of photographers, artists, bikers and alpinists, had the idea to remember war victims with a 1.300 km bike journey to Oswiecim. Their plan is to leave Rovereto on bikes on Wednesday October 4th at the noon, during the 92th anniversary of the Bell of the Fallen. The destination is Auschwitz concentration camp, where Leo Zelikowski, an Arco citizen, and Primo Levi, a well known Italian writer, were imprisoned.

     A science teacher proposes an adventure to his class: an educational trip to the Svalbard islands, north of the Arctic Circle. This gives rise to the Research and Education Svalbard Experience (RESEt) project, a long process involving fund-raising, study activities, research in the field and genuine amazement when exploring the most northerly inhabited lands on the planet.

     Male choir and female director. A family and a small community need bindings, in order to face the challenges of future.
     Young cellist Maria is disappointed by ruthless music industry. She gets back to the village in the Alps where she was born, a small and isolated community where an ancient language is still spoken: Cimbric. There she finds a sick mother, a death brother after a fatal incident with his tractor, a mourning sister in law facing a financial crisis, and a small community struggling with the first effects of climate change.

     Marco Albino Ferrari retraces the key phases in the life of the climber Ettore Castiglioni and tries to reveal the mystery of his death. The story is accompanied by extracts from the mountaineer's diary, recounting his hopes and fears. From Milan to a cablecar climbing up the side of the mountain, from an abandoned barracks to a hidden mountain hut, which was where he took refuge after 8 September and was based during his activities as a partisan.

     What it takes to climb the world's first 9c? Let's find out in Silence, a movie by Bernardo Giménez. It shows what preceded the afternoon of September 4, 2017 when Adam Ondra, a professional rock climber and currently one of the best climbers in the world, made a little piece of climbing history when he climbed his project in the spectacular Hanshelleren Cave in Norway. The route, later named Silence, received a new grade of 9c and became the hardest route in the world.

     It takes serious training and professionalism to join the National Alpine and Potholing Rescue Corps. Constant exercises and rigorous organisation are required to keep mistakes that could place the mission and the very lives of rescuers at risk to a minimum. The writer Marco Albino Ferrari takes us on a journey exploring how the men and women of the Italian Alpine and Potholing Rescue Corps are trained, with a crescendo of emotions and breathtaking exercises.

     Follow eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi in his quest to record pure 24-hour continuous 3D soundscapes in primary forests with the highest biodiversity on the planet; the forests of the Amazon in Ecuador. The film offers a unique listening experience of the vanishing sonic heritage of millions of years of evolution.

     The condition of the Saharawi people, forced to live in a land divided by two political factions, is a consequence of the European colonial polices which signed the XX century and it undoubtedly has many features in common with different struggles characterising the lives of various people living in Sub-Saharan Africa and in the Middle East.
     However, the sufferings experienced by the Saharawis have not, until now, received enough attention by the international community.

     The challenge of a man who measures himself against outdoor sport, in search of a balance between his own inner world and the world outside.

     The group home Orizzonti houses twelve persons with disabilities; the residents are encouraged to take part in the daily household activities as well as in some special and more creative ones. The documentary is an immersion in the community's daily life while the residents are working on the creation of a “collective” painting. Daily life and artistic experience fuse together through mutual exchanges, new points of view and shared emotions.

     Video documentary on the first ever ascent of the ice falls inside the "Brezno pod Velbom" cave, on the Slovenian side of Mount Kanin, in the Julian Alps. They are the longest underground ice falls ever climbed. One of the tallest and most demanding falls in the eastern Alps is indeed found not in the open-air, but inside a cave.

     Stefano and Tineke, both aged 29, travelled across all twenty Italian regions by bike, covering over 8000 km; an adventure without any pressure in terms of time or performance, to satisfy their curiosity, explore new places and enjoy life in the open air. All this was done to recount a country, Italy, which has the good fortune to combine thousands of years of culture with some of the most picturesque natural landscapes in the world.

     It’s the fifties. In a village in the heart of the Dolomites live Domenico, a bright but introverted boy, and his father Pietro, a man consumed by loneliness and wine, who makes ends meet working for the landowner Crepaz. The relationship between father and son is prickly and harsh; long silences have turned them into strangers. One night the calm of the valley is threatened by the diaol - the devil - a ferocious old bear that kills a cow in its stall. The community is gripped by superstitious terror and lacks the power to react.

     What is the meaning of leaving? Leaving friends, the newborn children and the mountains where you grew up? Catching a bus to the big City. Sharing a small room with other four people, a room identical to other thousand ones; and what is the purpose of coming back? Seeing a village of old people getting old as well, trying to reach a future that does not give you any opportunity. Replacing your wooden house with an equal one, but this one made of concrete. Finding again everything you left without recognizing a single thing.

     A professional photographer, Federico Modica, followed by a further four participants, devised the idea of an expedition to Greenland to attempt to cross an iceberg on a highline. Video footage and photos document the movement of the athletes, the climbing of the iceberg, the precision required to fix the highline and the balance and concentration necessary to cross it.

     A faithful filmic portrait of the very strong lonely mountaineer. Retracing his most famous climbs and thanks to valuable unpublished materials of repertoire, joined to the voice of his closest friends and climbing mates, the docufilm says, with the same thoughts and voice of Casarotto, the human research hidden behind the  mountaineering action, immersed in the wild nature.
     A collection of unknown images and thoughts that throw light on human complexity and the multiple will of a man who has accomplished extraordinary endeavors, many of which still unsurpassed today and never repeated.

     "Do you see anything?" Jesus asked to the miraculously-cured man that had received the sight for the first time. "I see men," he replied, "but they look like trees that walk".
     The tree is an opposed figure to the movement: where it's born, it does die. But there is a second life, which begins when the sap stops flowing in their vessels. It is the life of the wood.
His prodigy is not just the fact that it burns, offering with fire camp warmth for the human species. Its greatest virtue is that it floats. So it was possible to learn the world, which is mostly liquid.

     A young Maasai girl reaches a "bergera" (shepherdess of sheep) on the high pastures of the Maritime Alps.
     Two women different for their skin color, age and language live together one Alpine season, sharing the hard work, telling each other stories.
     The mountains around them seems to turn into a green desert where you can meet separate lives, tied together by an ancestral time.
     Far from any border, communication becomes a natural question.

     My great-grandfather Angelo Conte died in an accident in 1915, while he was working on the construction of a railway tunnel in Canada. Nobody ever knew what happened during his journey as an immigrant until I found the letters that he sent to Anna, his young and beloved wife.
    Thirty months ago, when Angelo left the country of Valstagna, Veneto, she was carrying their first child: my grandmother. Unfortunately they didn't meet again.

     Sabrina, Antonio e Michele, three common people gets excited in front of the residents situation of the region of Ancash, PeruÌ€ and they decide to use their greatest common passion, the mountains running, as instrument for gathering of funds, in one of the most beautiful place in the world, the Cordillera Blanca.
     Born Ande Trail, charity race with the aim to support some local projects, among the most important is the construction of 5 kindergartens in the shanty town of Chimbote, exposed to the Pacific Ocean.

     Nowadays Kazakhstan is experiencing the same euphoria as that of 60s and 70s booming Italy, a permeating feeling that Italy does not even remember today. Nevertheless, Kazakh growth is closely connected to Italian economy. Kazakh economic enhancement, which is equal to 6% per year (a rate that Italy managed to reach only during the 60s), is mainly based on oil and gas mining.
     ENI plays a key role in Kazakh oilfields' management and a large number of Italian people work in Kazakhstan, especially in the regions around the Caspian Sea, where this film was shot.

     Agostino Gazzera,"Gustin", in the 50s' was a Fiat worker, son of the Italian proletariat left battered by World War but full of hope for the future...
     A young "Gustin", including the shift in the foundry and one in the second workshop where he rounded off his salary, he imagines to walk the roads open to mountain climbers legendary Cassin, Boccalatte and Gervasutti.

     A noir à la trentino, a peculiar, surreal, oneiric tale with a slightly tongue-in-cheek slant, featuring an impressive cast formed by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Vincenzo Amato, Lambert Wilson, Pietro Sermonti and Daniela Virgilio. It all begins with a drop of Marzemino, a typical Trentino wine mentioned in Mozart’s Don Giovanni: the first wine the bank clerk Giovanni Cuttin ever tastes, after being offered some by a mysterious “Professor”. It’s an epiphany, a life-changing moment. From then on, wine becomes Giovanni’s whole life, and he goes in a short time from being a middling employee to the manager of the bank; at the same time, he embarks on a successful parallel career as a womaniser.

     Where once there were fields, now there are warehouses. Where once there was earth, there’s concrete. The countryside that remains is simply a means of sustenance, perhaps a way to get rich. The North East of Italy (but it’s just an example, and it could just as well be any other area), where values and human relationships seem to have been steamrollered over in the name of money and rampant individualism that focuses solely on its own needs, provides the backdrop to the story of Lucia and Renata.
     The two girls live in a little village in the provinces. Their only thought is how to make money so they can get away.

     Beyond the clouds, because needs can be harboured even further up. In Nepal, for example. A land that Fausto De Stefani – one of Italy’s most famous mountaineers – believes has given him so much, in terms both of gratification as a sportsman and of personal and spiritual advancement. And now that he’s turned fifty, he’s decided to give something back. The people that live on the slopes of the Sacred Mountains have a multitude of needs, but he has opted for education and training, which lie at the base of any society and are essential for any prospects of development.
     "Sharing a solidarity project strengthens the bond between people and brings them closer together".

     The first snow is the snow everyone waits for in the valley. It transforms colours, shapes, outlines; it buries fences and barriers beneath it. Despite the temperature, the snow warms the heart and opens up unexpected opportunities for communication.
     Dani has never seen the snow: he was born in Togo and arrived in Italy after fleeing from the war in Libya. He is staying in a shelter home in Pergine, a village in Trentino at the mouth of the Val dei Mocheni. An isolated breach amid the mountains, coloured by larch, beech and fir trees, where there are still folk that remember and use an ancient Germanic language. He has a year-old daughter he is prevented from taking care of by a pain that runs deep.

     “It's not the most difficult route in the world, it's simply the most difficult “sports” route that I have climbed. It has a long story which began when for the first time I asked myself what the places where the sun set every evening might be like.
     Eternit is hidden up there, in a solitary forgotten landscape in these mountains, small and “vertically old-fashioned' ” halfway between the place where I was born and the places where I have lived”: with these words, and with the images of the rock face he is climbing, Maurizio Manolo Zanolla talks about his motivation and emotions on rediscovering a route that he had identified many years before but which he had long believed impossible for him to face.

     Adam Ondra has been considered the best climber in the history of climbing for several years now. Even though he is only 19 and studying at a demanding grammar school. It is almost an impossible task to combine top sporting performances, difficult studies and the never ending carousel of competitions, interviews, festivals and slide-shows. Even though he is a top student, he decides not to go to university. Instead, he and three of his friends are setting on a long journey to the unknown north of Europe.

     Affairs of the heart. At altitude.
     With screenplay by Erri De Luca and a cast featuring Nastassja Kinski, Julian Sands, Enrico Lo Verso and the author himself, this is a marvellous short movie, intimate in terms of tone and expression, yet spectacularly wide open in its focus on the mountains. Brimming with hope in times that appear increasingly gloomy.
     A solitary man and a married woman are climbing a rock face in the Dolomites. He has just been through a heart transplant, while she has undergone open-heart surgery. This adventure is a promise they made to one another while they were on the ward awaiting their operations.

     Almost like The Million by Marco Polo, but the other way round. From the Far East to the Venetian Lagoon, this time following not trade routes along which to explore and exchange goods, but the rather less alluring contemporary routes of emigration, for survival. 
      In this film by Andrea Segre, the young Chinese mother Shun Li is working in a textile workshop on the outskirts of Rome in order to obtain the papers she needs and bring her eight-year-old son to Italy. She suddenly has to move to Chioggia, a little island-town in the Venetian lagoon, to work behind the bar in a hostelry.
Here she meets Bepi, an ageing fisherman of Slavic origin, nicknamed “Il Poeta” (the poet) by his friends.

     Mountains, 21st century. Far from being isolated spots light years away from the “world”, today’s mountain peaks are, in their own peculiar way, a reflection of the global, economic and cultural transformations at work in it. Sometimes, they are even an experimental laboratory for them. Their huge, static bulk, as ancient as the very roots of the Earth, should not be misconceived: these days, a great deal of changes occur – and fast – even in the mountains. Sometimes too much changes, too fast. From this perspective, the Alps – spread over eight nations, some of them among the most advanced in the world, are, in a sense, a laboratory. For the experimentation of new models for the economy and for tourism, for immigration and integration (they’ve always been a frontier, a passageway), for development that lurches between sustainable on the one hand and violently invasive on the other.

     Guided by the diary of Silvio Boldrini, which was written in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, geologist Sandro Frizzi makes his annual trip from Vancouver to Dawson City in the far north-west of Canada. More than one hundred years after the legendary Gold Rush, this small town, where nobody locks their doors, is still a crossroads for frenetic panning, exploration and digging.
     The parallel stories of the Boldrini brothers and the modern-day prospector intertwine against the backdrop of a harsh, frontier landscape where miners, geologists and prospectors live and work in the hills of the Klondike Plateau, on the gold-rich banks of the Bonanza, Eldorado, Yukon and Klondike.