Between 1925 and his death in 1940, Emilio Comici was the pre-eminent climber in the Eastern Alps, the hotbed of global rock climbing at that time. He made first ascents on some of the highest and most notorious walls in the Alps, including the northwest face of the Civetta, as well as dozens of other climbs. Comici invented many modern big-wall techniques and the big-wall idiom itself that later took root in Yosemite Valley. Comici also made solo ascents of some of the hardest routes in the Alps, including his climb on the north face of the Cima Grande. He also designed the first artificial climbing wall that was ever actually built. Emilio Comici explores how family tragedy and growing up in working class Trieste under Austrian occupation shaped Comici's complex personality and attitudes toward climbing. He was loyal to his friends, deeply concerned about the vulnerable, including his fellow climbers, and yet highly competitive, a born vagabond and yet also a dandy, irresistible to women, and yet unable to settle down, devoted to his mother and to the mountains, and finally, like many other Italian climbers of the period, a member of the Italian fascist party although he was profoundly anti-German and opposed to racial persecution--Book jacket.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796.522092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1771604565 9781771604574
- LCCN
- GV199.92.C656
- LCCN Item number
- C43 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- UKMGB
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (248 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241425 (OCoLC)1232487546 (CaOOCEL)458781
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- UKMGB
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Table of Contents 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- Chapter One: City of Wind and Stone 14
- Chapter Two: Val Rosandra 30
- Chapter Three: The Mother of Chamois 44
- Photo Section 74
- Chapter Four: The Water Drop 106
- Chapter Five: Nemesis 134
- Chapter Six: The Plain of Muses 152
- Chapter Seven: The Inebriation of Emptiness 168
- Chapter Eight: Blood that Dreams of Stone 198
- Chapter Nine: At the Angel's Grave 210
- Chapter Ten: What Colour are the Dolomites? 220
- Notes 230
- Index 242
