Great Ridge Routes of the Alps

The ridge competes with the wall for the beauty of the mountain. On the face you are protected but exposed to falling rock and ice, on the crest you are exposed to the abyss but protected from the will of the mountain. Two worlds in the mirror, where one ends the other begins. Wall: difficulty, closure, sense of protection. Crest: exposure, vision, vertigo. The meaning of this book is condensed in these last three words. For Marco, the work of a lifetime, the symbol of his mountaineering, a route made up of walls but above all of crests, of these dividing threads that condense into a point of union. An enormous, meticulous, important job to give meaning to a life spent among those rocks and ice.