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Due montanari

(Two Mountain Dwellers)

Casa Editrice Corbaccio, May 2019, pp.240

The simple life and extraordinary achievements of Oreste and Arturo Squinobal, carpenters and mountain guides, as well as climbers who rose to fame between the 1970s and 80s thanks to their incredible feats in the Alps and Himalayas.

With an afterword by Paolo Cognetti.

Full English translation available

Amid family anecdotes and stories about expeditions to their beloved Aosta Valley, in North-West Italy, preparations are underway for their greatest adventure: the ascent to Kangchenjunga, the third tallest mountain on earth (8,586 metres), on the border between Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim. Oreste succeeded in 1982, without an oxygen cylinder.
But Kangchenjunga gives the Squinobal brothers an opportunity to rethink their roots, the Walser culture of the Gressoney valley where they grew up, and in particular everything they have in common with the Sherpa people and the Nepalese.
A thought-provoking and, above all, exciting story at a time when expeditions to the most famous summits of the world are nothing more than a lucrative business, and, pushed by advertising and profit, often turn into tragedies.

Casa Editrice Corbaccio, May 2019, pp.240

  • “I have re-read Due montanari just before writing The Eight Mountains and I think that’s where I got the idea of the Himalayas as mountains where one could seek the lost roots of the Alps.”

    Paolo Cognetti, International bestselling author

  • “Maria Teresa Cometto’s book invites us to take a look at ourselves and detect that subtle line, the border between what’s possible and what’s impossible in our lives (…) a true lesson to anyone approaching mountains.”

    Il Corriere di Novara

  • “An ever-essential new edition after thirty-five years (…) which compares record-breaking mountaineering or Facebook-live-broadcast climbing with the kind that has a sacred bond with the mountain.”

    Paolo Virtuani, Corriere della Sera

  • “This book conveys the magic and power of two lives lived in harmony with nature and with the highest respect for mountains.”

    Libero

Maria Teresa Cometto

Besides having a passion for mountains, Maria Teresa Cometto is a journalist specialising in economy, business and hi-tech. Since 2000, she has been living in New York from where she writes for Corriere della Sera and Grazia. Due montanari is her first book.

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