Mount Cerreto with 1316 metres high is one of the most imposing mountains that give directly onto the sea, the second in height of all the Lattari Mountains. On its top Ocialan (Alfonso Tedesco) founded his temple and his "Palace". This Palace has given hospitality to hundreds of "travellers", mountain refuge and shelter to those who wanted to take heart from the fatigue of the journey, I also found my place as "subject" of the "Kingdom of nature". Here I...

People often believe that I am not afraid, but it is easy to see in the pictures above my jumps the strong emotions that I feel while calculating the risks. Dean Potter Dean has often been called a visionary, an experimenter, a fearless, sometimes controversial ... He accomplished memorable feats and is among the most popular climbers of america and the world. It was a pioneer and a precursor to joining the thin bridge between flight and climbing, conceiving the "freebase"....

Feared, invoked, admired. Without him, our country would not be the same. We speak of Vesuvius, which honors this video signed Direzione Verticale. One of the strengths of the climbing is the opportunity it offers to have new perspectives to admire the natural wonders that surround us. That reminding us why our Italy is also called the "Bel Paese"....

Climbing is also culture, a journey inside oneself but especially to discover fantastic places like Gaeta, a pearl of the Mediterranean from a special point of view, in Direzione Verticale. Montagna Spaccata was the location of our multipitch stage on long routes. We are in a corner of clear skies and warm sunshine, among Italy gripped by rain and risk situations, in Gaeta the area that marks the boundary between central and southern Italy that still has the strong character of the past...

Today 22 February 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of a great goodbye but also of a big feat. When in 1965 Walter Bonatti reached the summit of the Matterhorn along the "mythical" north wall, in one climb had taken at least three records: had opened a new route along the most inhospitable of the Matterhorn, doing it in solo and during one of the harshest periods of the year, in the winter. It was the year of the 100th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn and the...

Mythical peaks, unforgettable moments and legendary expeditions that have made the history of mountaineering and perhaps of the world. «Stories of men and mountains" the collection of La Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere della Sera opens with the precious documentary by Rossana Podestà and Paola Nessi W of Walter, for the first time available on dvd. In the collection the feats of Walter Bonatti, Reinhold Messner, Jerzy Kukuczka, Simone Moro, David Lama, Hervé Barmasse and so many other...

At Vico Equense, on the Sorrento peninsula, in the province of Naples, thousands of tons of concrete ruined the beautiful coastline of Alimuri. The building was designed as a luxury hotel right next to a rocky coast and just a few metres from the beach and bay on the coast of Sorrento. The works had stopped in the 1970s, after some legal problems. The municipality of Vico Equense with the help of other institutions, after many efforts have managed to find a way to shoot down one of the...

In skiing, freeride is the off piste activity in fresh snow, having as purpose the enjoyment and the sense of freedom which highlights the contact with nature, the free spaces, the fun, in some cases, the importance of the group, making secondary the competition. We go up the mountain by ski-lift and, for short stretches, sometimes, snowshoes or sealskins. In Italy the practice of off-piste skiing has been regulated in law 363/2003. Stage of freeride in the heart of the Southern Alps with...

The discipline of climbing as an inspiration for the new collection of Dirk Bikkembergs and as always the elements that distinguish it are physicality and sportsmanship. To welcome the public, as "most scenic" that "climbers", super hefty in super tight jeans, carabiners, ropes, backpacks, climbing harnesses and technician vest equipped with pockets. Bikkembergs is inspired by the climbing emphasizing the physicality with statuary models that open up the last day of...

Climbing in Campania and in the Amalfi coast in winter, offers unique landscapes between stormy and ruched sea, lights that lie between the threatening clouds, the mule tracks that travel on fragrant lemon terraces, the smell of homemade desserts like the struffoli and hot sfogliate. The climbing here is an emotion that we must consume on south facing walls, which is a pleasant habit. The areas recently implemented in Positano are brand new nailing, virgin rock is a perfectly compact...