The overall winner will be announced on Sunday 28 April at the Teatro Sociale of Trento
The jury of ITAS Mountain Book Award chose the 5 books finalists and category winners of the 2024 edition.
The overall winner will be proclaimed during the celebratory evening for the celebrations of the 50th edition of the Award, scheduled for Sunday 28 April at 8.30 pm at the Teatro Sociale of Trento, as part of the initiatives of the Trento Film Festival.
A truly special evening, with free entry upon reservation, which will feature protagonists Corrado Augias And Veronica Pivetti who will accompany the theater audience to discover the winning books and celebrate the value of the Highlands on stage.
The finalists of the 2024 edition and winners of the respective categories are:
Adam the climber by Pietro Dal Pra and Adam Ondra, Versante Sud, for the “Mountaineering and mountain sports” section.
Adam Ondra, the greatest climber of all time, is told here through his leaps beyond the imaginable. A joint story born from a deep friendship, from a passion for vertical climbing but also from sensitivity towards oneself, the rock and people. Memorable climbs and fundamental stages of his sporting career reveal to us the culture, inclinations and way of experiencing climbing of this fantastic climber.
Go Path by Yuri Basilicò and Sara Furlanetto, Rizzoli, for the “Guides and maps” section.
How many lives are lived on the road? Climbs and descents, meetings and clashes, joys and thoughts: walking through Italy to create a choral story, rediscovering the truest meaning of travel. A dream shared along the 7887 kilometers of the Sentiero Italia, discovering a little-known heritage made up of stories, foods, languages, landscapes, people. With this book, the founders of the Va’ Sentiero project propose 25 itineraries to travel through all the Italian regions.
Discovering the invisible. The incredible story of Alexander von Humboldt by Volker Mehnert and Claudia Lieb, Donzelli, for the “Children’s books” section.
The young German explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt sailed the oceans, explored the rainforest, sailed on unknown rivers, climbed volcanoes, to study every little thing useful for understanding the “web of life”. Following the adventures of this pioneer of environmentalism, we discover better the secrets and changes of our planet, but also that in nature everything is connected and our every action can have effects on the Earth and the climate.
The mountain by Carlo Mollino by Antonio De Rossi and Roberto Dini, Hoepli, for the “Research and environment” section.
The unpublished study of Carlo Molino’s mountain projects in relation to the social and cultural milieu of the time, to Italian and international architectural influences, allows not only to renew the usual and stereotyped image of the architect-artist, but above all to understand the work of an illustrious interpreter of that design culture which gave a new face to the Alpine valleys during the twentieth century.
Golden years by Arno Camenisch, Keller Editore, for the “Mountain life and stories” section.
For 51 years, Margrit and Rosa-Maria have managed a kiosk and a fuel pump which are the point of reference for the entire town and for those who travel the roads of those mountains. Arno Camenisch recounts with great irony and a certain nostalgia a beautiful and bright world that almost risks disappearing. «Golden Years» is a story of universal value that makes a small corner of the mountains a mirror of our times.
Winner of the “Special Mention Trentino”: Merchants of light. Opticians and photographers from Tesis between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Elda Fietta, Publistampa Edizioni.
As per tradition, the usual appointments for the presentation of the winning works with the authors within the Trento Film Festival program are also renewed, precious opportunities for dialogue with the public of the ITAS Award.
Presentation of the book Mercanti di luce
Saturday 27 April at 5.30 pm, at the literary salon in Piazza Duomo
Presentation of the book Golden Years
Monday 29 April at 4pm, at the literary salon in Piazza Duomo
Presentation of the book Adam the climber
Thursday 2 May at 5.30 pm, at the literary salon in Piazza Duomo
Presentation of the book Discovering the invisible
Saturday 4 May at 11am, at T4Future in Piazza Fiera
Source: ITAS
