Scarpa
Hervè Barmasse
Italy
Prolific Alpine 1st ascensionist
“I hang up my hammock.
Below me is the void, above me, the stars.
I look at the lights in the valley, and I am at peace.
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
Romolo Nottaris
Switzerland
Greater Ranges, Oxygen Free
“When you climb over 8000 meters, you can see higher than life.
On the Himalayan peaks the ghosts are there with you,
they follow you, and sometimes they want to stop you,
but then they push you back down toward life on earth.”