Simone Moro’s lecture on modern mountaineering.

A great evening, the one organized by Sport Specialist in Barzanò, in the Lecco area. On stage, among the special guests was Simone Moro. Who was as always very clear. “If we say that mountaineering used to be good and today it sucks we are doing half the battle. Mountaineering is alive and today it has an opportunity to be even more alive. If we tell the new generation not to go to Everest in April or May anymore, we help them: we push them to go in August.”

“Riccardo Cassin told me, ‘It will not be difficult to become a great mountaineer for you. The difficult thing will be to become a great old mountaineer.’ He was telling me ‘It’s important that you dream big. You probably have the numbers to do something important, but remember to put as your first value being able to become a great old man.’ But be careful: it’s not that those who died in the mountains were not great mountaineers or were reckless because unpredictability has always existed,” he added

“If you can survive the’impetuosity of your twenties and go through the filter of that period when you feel immortal then you have the opportunity to do mountaineering that gives you even more. There is a dream for every age, and even in mountaineering dreams change. It would be a big problem if we talked about our mountaineering only in a nostalgic way without helping younger people dream,” the Bergamasque then remarked.