This morning the Trentino Spa’s Rombo room hosted the presentation of the 12th “Ice Master World Cup” edition set in Daone.

Next week end the ice – spiders are challenging on the ice wall set in Pracul, in the unique Italian World Cup’s stage: “ Romolo Ghezzi, the Committee’s President said: “ This event is a great opportunity from the media point of view for our valley and its beauties.”

The major of Daone, Ugo Pellizzari, agreed with Romolo and underlined as “Daone valley is getting more and more like a meeting place for athletes and for people who like climbing, in particular thanks to the Ice Master and the Speed Rock and thanks to the new permanent structure, which will build next summer”.

From next winter the Ice Stadium will find a new place in Limes, where will be built a modern structure, which will allow the organization of summer events and to the climb world will be given more attention.

Giorgio Butterini, the spokesman of the majors of the Chiese Valley, spent words of respect towards the tourist aspect of this event: “International competitions like the Ice Master are great opportunities in order to develop the tourist potential of our area, because they allow to get in contact with the athletes’ world and with people who love nature and staying outdoor”.

The competition will be brought to you live on Rai Sport Più, the digital channel which everybody from this year can watch clearly on Tv of most the Italian areas and from last October on all the Trentino’s Tv. The network, which auditel datas are getting higher and higher, will give one hour and forty minutes space live. The broadcast starts from Saturday 16th at 9.20 am to 11 pm.

Daone is among the top locations of the World Cup and in the 2010 calendar is the second of four

competitions. The starting of the circuit is set in Kirov, Russia, where athletes challenged from

January 7th to 9th and here Angleika Rainer from Merano won.

January 22nd and 23rd athletes climb In Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February

the World Cup ends in Busteni, Romania.

The more waited athletes are the winners of the last world competition, that is the Russian Maria

Tolokonina, Markus Bendler from Austria, who dominated the difficulty Cup and the Russian Pavel

Gulyaev, the king of the speed. Not to forget is “our” Rainer, the diamond point of our nation.

Maurizio Gallo, the responsible for the competition structure, explained: “ the preparation of the

route needed the work of about ten volunteers and they spent whole days working hard.

This year we tried to make the route more difficult, putting ice on the whole structure on a level of

20 meters. It was a hard work considering the high temperatures of the last days, which are not

suitable for the ice . For this reason the volunteers’ work is more appreciate. They worked until late

at night with buckets of snow and water to build a structure which can not challenge with the others

in the World Cup circuit. From the point of view of the competitions we gave more importance to

the main competitions which will be live, in order to give to people a high level show”.

Then Gallo took the stock of the entered athletes until now: “ More than 80 athletes from

16 nations confirmed their presence. We want to underline the presence after lots of years of the

Americans and Koreans”.

The Ice Master is not only a competition. The Committee thought about some initiatives to entertain

people. There are three the initiatives for public.

The first one is the “Junior ice Park “, an area for children with lots of plays and activities in order

learn the mountains and its resources, in complete safety under the supervision of qualified people.

For adults there are the “Ice tasting Days “, an initiative for ice climbers experts and not, who with

the help of alpine guides, can improve their technique.

The other initiative for adults is a non – competitive walk with snow rackets entitled “ Discovering

Daone Valley with snow rackets”, in order to discover the more hidden places of the valley.