Marco MCMLXXVI
Remote mountain throne
Pizzo Andolla, Portjengrat in German, 3654m.
View from SE, the summit is the second pinnacle from the left. The great pillar in the center of the image is one of the more important mountaineering route of the area.
Took this shot approaching the small mountain hut “Bivacco città di Varese.” Along the path, I found a crossroad for the trail that leads to the basis of the mountaineering route to the summit of this mountain. Standing in front of that sign, painted on a large flat rock, I realized that I had already been walking for two hours and an half to reach that point, and that to get on the summit of Andolla, along the complex mountaineering route of the Italian side, It might took other eight hours of walking and climbing. Well, to climb Andolla was not in my intentions, but that consideration helped me to realize the dimensions and the severity of this mountain. I could not avoid thinking of the people that climbed this mountain for the very first time, more than one hundred years ago, with ridiculous technical equipment, no helicopters for the rescue, no paved road in the valley below. What an adventure.
A lot of people think that progress has opened new doors to mankind, but, in a certain way, I think it closed a lot of opportunities to see and discover the world and ourselves with a sense of wonder.
To be sincere, I have to admit that, at the beginning of the last century, few people had a car and the possibility to travel here and hike in a single day…. but a long and slow travel can be an ooportunity of another kind…
If you have been reading this till the end, well, excuse me for bothering you
Remote mountain throne
Pizzo Andolla, Portjengrat in German, 3654m.
View from SE, the summit is the second pinnacle from the left. The great pillar in the center of the image is one of the more important mountaineering route of the area.
Took this shot approaching the small mountain hut “Bivacco città di Varese.” Along the path, I found a crossroad for the trail that leads to the basis of the mountaineering route to the summit of this mountain. Standing in front of that sign, painted on a large flat rock, I realized that I had already been walking for two hours and an half to reach that point, and that to get on the summit of Andolla, along the complex mountaineering route of the Italian side, It might took other eight hours of walking and climbing. Well, to climb Andolla was not in my intentions, but that consideration helped me to realize the dimensions and the severity of this mountain. I could not avoid thinking of the people that climbed this mountain for the very first time, more than one hundred years ago, with ridiculous technical equipment, no helicopters for the rescue, no paved road in the valley below. What an adventure.
A lot of people think that progress has opened new doors to mankind, but, in a certain way, I think it closed a lot of opportunities to see and discover the world and ourselves with a sense of wonder.
To be sincere, I have to admit that, at the beginning of the last century, few people had a car and the possibility to travel here and hike in a single day…. but a long and slow travel can be an ooportunity of another kind…
If you have been reading this till the end, well, excuse me for bothering you