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Sometimes they melt when touching the ground, other times they accumulate changing the landscape covering it in a white blanket. They are magical. Two alike don\u2019t exist, as with human beings. Their strength is their bond, millions of it create stretches of snow where we can have fun sledging, skiing, skating or we can watch unarmed its transformation in to the destructive force of an avalanche. As what for thousands of years did our armies, our religions, invading and killing other cultures.<br \/>\nToday our sophisticated mind has created bombs to destroy quicker, but we are not able to contain an avalanche. It\u2019s a strength that controls us. We still cannot manipulate time and mass made out of millions of ice crystals, mass that has the power to immobilise airports, cites and immense territories.<br \/>\nComputers can predict storms but cannot neutralise them. 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Avevo iniziato a vincere qualche gara e mi allenavo sciando in neve fresca con una persona che cercava di conquistare le grandi vette: Walter Bonatti. Eravamo visionari, alla ricerca dell'assoluto. Ci confidavamo i nostri sogni, parlavamo del mistero della vita come se potesse un giorno essere svelato. Walter amava il silenzio, la solitudine e le montagne: le guardava con grande amore studiando a tavolino ogni passo, ogni strettoia, ogni appiglio. Walter possedeva innata eleganza e gentilezza d'animo, in lui si avvertiva l'astuzia del giaguaro, una forza di spirito che fluisce e dona la vita. Nei momenti pi\u00f9 difficili, lo spirito lo spronava inarrestabile, la forza superiore del suo essere lo avvolgeva e prendeva il sopravvento. Per i miei 18 anni mi aveva invitato a scalare Les Grandes Jorasses e lass\u00f9, sulla vetta, avevamo condiviso - brindando - la visione di un\u2019Europa Unita, senza frontiere.<\/p><p>La Montagna Sacra richiama anime a cui piace l\u2019introspezione, apparentemente vagabondi dell\u2019inutile. 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