Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
(Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
Inizialmente avevo intitolato questa pagina “reportages”, ma poi mi è sembrato un po’ troppo pretenzioso. Qui trovate alcuni miei diari di viaggio e qualche articolo su luoghi che mi hanno particolarmente colpito.
Places I have been, and some mountaineering adventures. Almost all-italian, by now. A mark will be added where (when?) english text is available. Meanwhile… Try googletranslate:
– and enjoy the pictures.
- Corsica del Nord in bici – Estate 2005 (pdf)
- Liguria tra cielo e mare – Pasqua 2008 (pdf)
- Un canyon in Toscana (pdf)
- Alta Via delle Alpi Apuane: un trekking solitario, Agosto 2009
- Speleologia glaciale: dentro il ghiacciaio dei Forni, in Valtellina (17-20 settembre 2009)
- Salita invernale alla Pania della Croce (Alpi Apuane), Ottobre 2010
- Fair Isle – Scotland’s most remote inhabited island (Luglio-Agosto 2010)
- Monte Rosa: i miei primi “4000” (giugno 2010)
- Rebuffat route: arrampicata sull’Aiguille du Midi, massif du Mont Blanc (Luglio 2011)
- The Borneo diaries: three weeks in Borneo in winter 2013/2014 (EN)
- Winter ascent to the Namenlose Kante, Bockmattli (Switzerland) 2014 (EN)
- A Borneo Walkabout: travel notes from a three-month expedition in Malaysia and Borneo in 2015 (EN)
- Various South African adventures (2016-now) (EN)
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