The island of Capri, the most beautiful rocky vision that you might have, among the pearls of the Mediterranean. Climbing on excellent rocks in the most spectacular and free climbing style: the "Deep Water Solo Climbing" for some also known as Psicobloc or as Deep Water Soloing (DWS). We, at Direzione Verticale, know what we're talking about ...   The Deep Water Soloing is a form of climbing solo without insurance that is practiced on cliffs, where the only protection is...

Ice climbing stage on ice falls in the heart of Gran Paradiso massif. Staying at the charming refuge Massimo Mila. Ice climbing (also referred to as ice falls) is a discipline arising from mountaineering and climbing. It is about climbing with the help of ice axes and crampons, and with the use of other materials, on icy formations like the couloirs and ice gully or seracs, high in the mountains or on the ice in the middle mountain. You can hook up on the ice using ice screws. The...

The mountain has taught me to don't cheat, to be honest with myself and what I was doing. If it's practiced in a certain way it is an undoubtedly harsh school, even cruel sometimes, but sincere as it doesn't always happen in everyday life. So, If I translate these principles in the human world, I will be immediately considered a fool and I will still be punished because I didn't give nudge but I only received. It's really hard to reconcile these differences. Hence the...

The shrines of climbing in Sardinia are definitely the areas of Cala Gonone, Baunei, Jerzu and Domusnovas. In the last times new areas are born in a region that has the characteristics of a continent. Roccadoria Monteleone is one of the areas newly nailed and the type of rock is unquestionably unique, ultra-compact tuff and alongside the cliff there is an abandoned quarry where some routes have been equipped on the rock where mechanical diggers worked designing the rock as a paper sheet....

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800 children and thousands of onlookers were entertained in just two days of activities: emotions, smiles, hugs, thanks... You were superheroes and we watched you from below with admiration! Thousands of users have climbed our walls, in two days of operations on 19 and 21 April, at one of the most important commercial centres in central-southern Italy the "Vulcano Buono" of Naples. The activity called "A day as Spiderman" anticipated the release of the new movie from...

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