Ten years after the death of Gianni Calcagno in Alaska, in the light of this astonishing autobiography is dedicated to climbing done in the seventies. The novel is just like the book more 'intense because of the great mountaineer Genovese' gives us the passionate story, sometimes suffered as a confession, the decisive phase of his career. The years in which Calcagno, who has a father decided to stay amateur to the bitter end, take the leap of more 'hard roads of the Alps to the great Central Asian wall. After the failure of Annapurna in 1975 Tirich on Mir in Hindukush, with Biella Guido Machetto successfully tested the "Alpine style", then cutting-edge technology superlight expedition. Will remain 'the main idea that runs throughout the volume, which explains the varied activities' of the strong himalaysta, who was also a pioneer in the vertical ice and rock climbing at Finale Ligure.
(Gianni Calcagno, Vivalda )
My opinion: Another climber, after the French Rebuffat, which comes from the sea. Calcagno, represents together with Alessandro Gogna, the flower of mountaineering Genoa. There 'who said that his "Alpine style" and' was probably his way of answering the lack of major sponsorship funding data. Sure and 'who represented a new way of tackling the big walls of Asia and North America. An important figure in the world of Italian. His story, told in his autobiography, and 'particularly interesting for fans of mountaineering history.
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