Alpine Studio Casarotto-A Life Among the Mountains climbing novel

Alpine Studio Casarotto-A Life Among the Mountains is a climbing novel and an extraordinary story, told in the first person by the author, with thoughts taken 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 ascents, often solo, some of which remain unmatched to this day. His wife Goretta, despite being the first Italian woman to reach the summit of an Eight-thousander, Gasherbrum II, has never wanted to define herself as an "alpinist"; she has always accompanied and played a fundamental role in Renato's extra-European expeditions. Their story has been extraordinary, intertwining dreams, aspirations, great mountaineering, and the total sharing of every moment of life. Years of grand climbs, from Dolomite feats to ascents on the great mountains of the Andes, Alaska, and the Himalayas. The novel tells an extraordinary tale, narrated in the first person by the author, which includes notes and thoughts taken from Renato's diaries. A narrative that combines moments of news and memories, but 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 inquiries, as well as the place of experience and privileged encounters with the great mysteries of nature.