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Environment

In search of the lost ice

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...

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!

Environment

200 ways to say snow, plus 1 by Marco Grasso

Published on 2022/02/15 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...

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...

Environment

Wrapping glaciers to save them? - by Marco Grasso

Published on 2021/10/29 The summer of 2021 was the hottest on record both in Europe and the United States; July 2021 was the hottest month ever rec...

Environment

The low carbon transition: the need to change and the search of new ways by Marco Grasso

“We need to change”. Breaking free from the ubiquity of fossil fuels is one of the most powerful narratives of current socio-economic thinking.In ...

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 and se...

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...

Environment

The abandoned ski resorts in the Italian Alps: climate change creeps inexorably upwards by Professor Marco Grasso

Published on 16/04/2021There’s no business like snow business, but, thanks to climate change, the fairytale of immaculate white slopes framed by pr...

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 ...

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...

my gear for

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...

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...