Ski Touring
scialpinismo
All'' origin of almost all the inventions of man c'' is the old adage which states that "necessity is the mother'' s ingenuity." For the birth of skiing was exactly the same thing. It was the need to move the legs-and-minds of the early skiers.
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In the Nordic countries needed a way to move more smoothly and also travel long distances in the shortest possible time through rough terrain and almost always covered with a white blanket. These skis, that'' s era were rudimentary tools tied to the feet with leather straps, are described as "wooden clogs with long twisted point upwards like a bow."
For northern populations skiing was a true means of transportation that was used at all stages of life: for hunting, move, fight. Just to name a few in 1564 the army of Sweden, in the war against Denmark, fielded among its ranks an army of nearly 4,000 soldiers skiers. In 1888 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen made the crossing east- west of the Southern Greenland about 500 km in 40 days with peaks reaching 2,700 meters and then published the book "Across Greenland on skis" in which he describes his pioneering enterprise. The first heroes of the mountain were a little skiers'' a little'' explorers and mountaineers, brave adventurers who have paved the way for a new way to experience the mountains.
At the turn of the late 1800s and the first 30 years of the 1900's has the spread of the sport of skiing in the Alps, especially for wealthy resulting in technical evolution of materials. The baptism of the skis in the Alps you with the ascent to the hill of Pragel at Glarus in Switzerland accomplished in 1893. A groped the company are four of us: three singles up a slope on skis, one prefers snowshoeing. Uphill take the same step, but there's downhill race: skiers beat the ciaspolatore giving an hour of posting.
Marcel Kurz (1887-1967) engineer, cartographer and Swiss mountaineer, was among the first to use the skis in the Alps and to systematically describe the technique and Alpine ski trips. '' Thanks to developments in technology and materials also enhances the elegant progression of Telemark is practiced since the early '900. The typical curve of the telemark position genoflessa remain in effect until the 50s, to return all the rage today with the distinctive slogan "Free the heel clears the mind."
The postwar years have seen significant developments in technology and materials: 1927 is the first Italian ski ascent of Mont Blanc, by Ottorino Mezzalama and Ettore Saints. Already in 1933 he organized the first edition of the Trofeo Mezzalama one of the most important competitions of ski touring as a competitive sport. In 1956, Walter Bonatti and Bruno Detassis completed the first crossing of the Alps on skis: 65 days from 15 March to 20 May, with 7 days off, 1500 mileage, 100,000 vertical meters. A company that has the taste of conquest.
It is officially born ski touring!
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