Alpine Studio Casarotto-Una vita tra le montagne climbing novel

Alpine Studio Casarotto-A life in the mountains is a climbing novel and an extraordinary story, told in the first person by the author, with thoughts from Renato's diaries. Goretta and Renato Casarotto, a couple in the mountains and in everyday life. He, one of the greatest protagonists of world mountaineering, author of extraordinary and often solo ascents, some of which are still unrepeated. His wife Goretta, despite being the first Italian woman to reach the summit of an eight-thousand metre peak, Gasherbrum II, never wished to call herself an 'alpinist', has always accompanied and played a fundamental role in Renato's non-European expeditions. Theirs was an extraordinary story, in which dreams, aspirations, great mountaineering and the total sharing of every moment of life were intertwined. Years of grandiose climbs, from the exploits of the Dolomites to ascents of the great mountains of the Andes of Alaska and the Himalayas. The novel tells an extraordinary story, narrated in the first person by the author, in which annotations and thoughts from Renato's diaries are inserted. It is a story that combines moments of chronicle and memories, but which also always welcomes Casarotto's voice, forcing us to reflect on the meaning of his mountaineering and his relationship with the mountain. A mountain that for him was not just the stage for exhilarating sporting feats, but a laboratory of thoughts, sensations, inner investigations, as well as the place of experience and privileged encounters with the great mysteries of nature.