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13 gen 2010

La Sportiva Meeting in oder to get close to the ice climbing

The “cascatismo” meeting is cultural and educational

While the champions will challenging on the ice wall contending for the trophy of the Italian step of the Ice Climbing World Cup, hundred fans will take part to the 11th edition of “La Sportiva International Meeting Pareti di Cristallo”, climbing the falls of Daone Valley ( they are 146 ) which in winter get wonderful icy practice walls. They are perfect for the meeting which it has been organizing since 1989. Here climbers with ice pick and climbing irons find hard walls to climb, facing the cold and the verticality.

This event has the purpose to spread culture, teaching to people attending it the rules about safety, nourishing the respect towards nature and meantime underling the risks which people can run climbing or joining the mountain.

This meeting sponsored by La Sportiva, a firm from Trentino which produces mountain and climbing equipment and it supports the Ice Master, will take place from 16th to 22nd January in the Valley very close to the Natural Park Adamello Brenta.

The event can be considered a real stage of ice climbing on all levels, an educational moment dedicated to the safety techniques used to climb. It is organised with the Alpine Guides of trentino and with the “Friends of Arco” Association, coordinated by the qualified alpine guide Mauro Girardi. This year the meeting would to renew and it will be about “Having fun in complete safety”.

Others activities will be organized with this guides, for ex. short walks in the wood with the snow rackets and climbs on the artificial icy wall and on the fall. There will be a stage entitled “snow and avalanches” in order to prevent bad accidents in this field.

Garmont, a firm from Montebelluna which produces alpine skiing boots, would to bring to attention important themes linked to safety as: the planning of a day trip on the snow, the good use of the snow forecast, the rules to go on a snow ground and to choose the itinerary, how to recognise a dangerous ground…

These stages are suitable for people who use to go to the mountains in winter to practice winter sports . It’s an important meeting dedicated to the improvement of the safety techniques and activities organized with the alpine guides “Friends of Arco”.

From Friday the 15th at 2 pm athletes will be welcomed in the Committee office in Daone.

From Saturday morning it starts a schedule made of lessons about falls’ secrets, technical drills and obviously the lead competitions. All the outdoors activities will be followed by the alpine guides “Friends of Arco”.