Bolting routes it’s a nobile work. Bolters are volunteers but deserve tutelage by territorial agencies: municipality, region, parks. Bolting routes it’s expensive but climbing associations don’t stop their action....

Today starts the reality show adventure celebrity game «Mont Blanc» on RaiDue conducted by Caterina Balivo and the mountaineer Simone Moro. Seven vips coupled to as many alpine guides from Val d'Aosta will compete to conquer the Roof of Europe. A show that was not accepted willingly in the mountaineering world, there were even harsh stances from the CAI of Val d'Aosta and Piemonte. http://direzioneverticale.tumblr.com/post/132895070488/parte-oggi-il-reality-showadventure-celebrity...

Our video has exceeded the official selections of EpicTv for the Boooom Fest Summer 2015, a short film festival dedicated to outdoor sports. Shot in Amalfi coasts and dedicated to the South, the self-produced videos by Direzione Verticale with Renato Carosone's music, was admitted in the official selection of the prestigious web channel dedicated to extreme sports. Presenting in an ironic way, we decided to show and tell a piece of our land, of southern Italy, where nature gives us a...

Mount Cerreto with 1316 metres high is one of the most imposing mountains that give directly onto the sea, the second in height of all the Lattari Mountains. On its top Ocialan (Alfonso Tedesco) founded his temple and his "Palace". This Palace has given hospitality to hundreds of "travellers", mountain refuge and shelter to those who wanted to take heart from the fatigue of the journey, I also found my place as "subject" of the "Kingdom of nature". Here I...

People often believe that I am not afraid, but it is easy to see in the pictures above my jumps the strong emotions that I feel while calculating the risks. Dean Potter Dean has often been called a visionary, an experimenter, a fearless, sometimes controversial ... He accomplished memorable feats and is among the most popular climbers of america and the world. It was a pioneer and a precursor to joining the thin bridge between flight and climbing, conceiving the "freebase"....

Feared, invoked, admired. Without him, our country would not be the same. We speak of Vesuvius, which honors this video signed Direzione Verticale. One of the strengths of the climbing is the opportunity it offers to have new perspectives to admire the natural wonders that surround us. That reminding us why our Italy is also called the "Bel Paese"....

Climbing is also culture, a journey inside oneself but especially to discover fantastic places like Gaeta, a pearl of the Mediterranean from a special point of view, in Direzione Verticale. Montagna Spaccata was the location of our multipitch stage on long routes. We are in a corner of clear skies and warm sunshine, among Italy gripped by rain and risk situations, in Gaeta the area that marks the boundary between central and southern Italy that still has the strong character of the past...

Today 22 February 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of a great goodbye but also of a big feat. When in 1965 Walter Bonatti reached the summit of the Matterhorn along the "mythical" north wall, in one climb had taken at least three records: had opened a new route along the most inhospitable of the Matterhorn, doing it in solo and during one of the harshest periods of the year, in the winter. It was the year of the 100th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn and the...

Mythical peaks, unforgettable moments and legendary expeditions that have made the history of mountaineering and perhaps of the world. «Stories of men and mountains" the collection of La Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere della Sera opens with the precious documentary by Rossana Podestà and Paola Nessi W of Walter, for the first time available on dvd. In the collection the feats of Walter Bonatti, Reinhold Messner, Jerzy Kukuczka, Simone Moro, David Lama, Hervé Barmasse and so many other...

At Vico Equense, on the Sorrento peninsula, in the province of Naples, thousands of tons of concrete ruined the beautiful coastline of Alimuri. The building was designed as a luxury hotel right next to a rocky coast and just a few metres from the beach and bay on the coast of Sorrento. The works had stopped in the 1970s, after some legal problems. The municipality of Vico Equense with the help of other institutions, after many efforts have managed to find a way to shoot down one of the...