Versante Sud Tato alpine climbing novel

Tato by Marcin “Yeti” Tomaszewski, translated by Luca Calvi, is an intense narrative that goes beyond technical climbing on big walls to explore the responsibility towards oneself, companions, and family, intertwining stories of miraculous rescues in Patagonia, risky expeditions like the one to Jannu, the loss of friends like Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi, and the dilemmas between reason and madness that accompany those who choose remote and forbidding walls – a book that moves and challenges, where every peak becomes a point of reflection on the balance between passion and humanity, told with such engaging prose that it feels like pure literature and not just alpine reportage.