Area 8
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
For almost a thousand years, Alpine civilisation developed in a balanced equilibrium between nature and culture. Man drew resources from the environment without ever going beyond the limits of the resources themselves. With 19th- and 20th-century industrialisation, and with the advent of the tourist industry, the old equilibrium has been broken in favour of greater exchanges and new productions, but the environment continues to remain the primary source of the mountain, and must be preserved by every means possible.
The new alliance
After the First World War, a need to safeguard the Alps from the indiscriminate action of man began to be felt. The Gran Paradiso and other Alpine and Apennine parks became laboratories of balanced activities in which the action of man did not impair the riches of the environment. During the last decades of the 20th century, people began to talk about “sustainable development”, the only way for guaranteeing a future for the Alpine chain, for its inhabitants and for the tourists who come looking for something different from the city.
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Area 5
WINTER MOUNTANEERING
The most extreme boundary is winter mountaineering, which originated on Uja di Mondrone in December 1874 with the ascent of Castagneri, Martelli and Vaccarone. Climbing the mountains in the most unfavourable season meant breaking the final taboo of valley...
Area 6
SKIING AND WINTER SPORTS
Skiing did not originate as recreation, but as a means for moving over the snow for the populations of north Europe. Known and practised in the north for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, skiing arrived in the Alps only at the end of the 19th century, when...
Area 7
MOUNTAINS OUTSIDE EUROPE
The most truthful representation of the dimensions of the Himalayas is offered by the east face of Monte Rosa, which dominates the Macugnaga valley and the plain around Novara. But the day came when not even the Monte Rosa was enough to satisfy the mountaineers. With...
Area 9
PIACENZA COLLECTION
Mario Piacenza was born in 1884 at Pollone, near Biella, not far from Turin, into a family of industrialists dedicated to wool manufacturing from several generations. He carried out various activities in the field of mountaineering and was also the director of the...
Area 10
THE TURIN 2006 OLYMPIC MUSEUM
In 2006, on the occasion of the XX Winter Olympic Games and the IX Winter Paralympic Games, Turin and its valleys experienced a moment of great appreciation and were at the centre of international attention. The Museomontagna conserves the memory of the sports events...
Area 11
WALTER BONATTI
Walter Bonatti (1930–2011) is unique in the history of mountaineering. Certainly this goes for his amazing exploits: from the north face of the Grandes Jorasses scaled at just 19 years of age to his solitary winter ascent of the Matterhorn, along with the Grand...
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