Environment
In search of the lost ice
Published on 12/05/2023 On the evening of August 11th, 2022, as part of the 25th Cervino Cine Mountain in Valtournenche, three great alpinists from...
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Inside r&d
From the Murcielago to The Dark Machine and beyond by Stefano Azzali
This is the exciting story of the latest generation of Grivel technical ice axes. It covers a 20-year period and it is certainly not over yet!
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Environment
200 ways to say snow, plus 1 by Marco Grasso
Published on 15/02/2022 And once again it didn’t come. Or, at least, it didn’t come as we expected and possibly it won’t, in another non-wintry win...
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Environment
Climate change, melting glaciers and hydropower by Prof. Marco Grasso
Published on 28/01/2022 The temperature on Earth has been climbing steadily for the past two centuries, but since the post-war boom in both consump...
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Environment
Wrapping glaciers to save them? - by Marco Grasso
Published on 29/10/2021 The summer of 2021 was the hottest on record both in Europe and the United States; July 2021 was the hottest month ever rec...
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Environment
The low carbon transition: the need to change and the search of new ways by Marco Grasso
Published on 06/08/2021“We need to change”. Breaking free from the ubiquity of fossil fuels is one of the most powerful narratives of current socio...
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Environment
Our relationship with nature: from protected areas to rewilding - by Marco Grasso
Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation. It’s about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land ...
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Environment
Wandering in the mountains and other stories. Climate change and perspectives - by Marco Grasso
Published on 28/05/2021 If until a decade ago it was possible to believe that ecological changes could be contained within certain safe boundaries,...
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Environment
The abandoned ski resorts in the Italian Alps: climate change creeps inexorably upwards by Professor Marco Grasso
Published on 16/04/2021 There’s no business like snow business, but, thanks to climate change, the fairytale of immaculate white slopes framed by p...
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my gear for
Skiing - My gear for The Aiguille Verte by the Washburn route (the Z) by Charlotte Barré and Alexandre Pittin
Published on 9.04.2021 The Verte is probably one of the peaks of Mont Blanc that makes the mountaineers dream most. It is often said that its name ...
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Environment
Microplastics "on the rocks" by Professor Marco Grasso
Published on 12/03/2021 There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. Or so the refrain goes. But when home is an Earth where, however re...
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Skiing - My Gear For Couloir Jaeger - Mont Blanc du Tacul by Denis Trento
Published on 03/03/2021 The Couloir Jaeger is the "smallest" of the legendary snow couloirs that characterize the east side of the Mont Blanc du Ta...
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Technology
Ice Blades - History and Technology
Climbing on ice, with the help of a blade. Overcoming apparently invincible slopes, on what is ephemeral and aleatory by definition, on what was li...
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