For generations the Righini ski mountaineering school in Milan, has handed down the culture of the snow and mountains in the city. Through the story of the microcosm represented by the school, Sciare in salita retraces the most important stages in the history of ski mountaineering, from the evolution of technical materials to the advent of the digital age, showing how film archives – from old footage to contemporary social media - are capable of constantly inventing new narrative threads. The mountains remain at the centre, surrounded by a mysterious aura that manages to evade the representations and imaginary attributes given to them by man.