La Voce del Ghiaccio - Gli Ottomila in Inverno: Il Mio Sogno Quasi Impossibile (The Voice of the Ice – The Eight-thousanders in Winter: My Almost Impossible Dream)
Author(s):
Moro, Simone
Copyright: 2012, Rizzoli, Milano
Specifications: 2nd prtg, 8vo, pp.282, 58 color photos, blue cloth
Condition: signed, dj & cloth new
Italian mountaineer Moro has been pushing the boundaries of high altitude climbing for some time and is at the top of his game. His specialities are new routes and first ascents in winter. Of the 8000m peaks he has climbed Lhotse (1997), Cho Oyu (2002), Broad Peak (2003), Shisha Pangma (first winter ascent, 2005), Makalu (first winter ascent, 2009), Everest (2000, 2002, solo, south-north traverse in 2006, 2010), and Gasherbrum II (first winter ascent, 2011). This book, Moro’s third, includes accounts of his climbs on Aconcagua South Face (1993), Annapurna with Anatoli Boukreev (1997), Marble Wall (2001), Shisha Pangma (2005), Broad Peak winter attempt (2008), Beka Brakai Chhok (2008), Makalu (2009), Gasherbrum II (2011), and Nanga Parbat winter attempt (2012). In Italian.