Until Sunday the exhibition at the Cloister of San Paolo which documents ascents above 6,000 metres
“Italia K2 by Mario Fantin is having a good response to participation. Tale of an enterprise”, the traveling exhibition of the Italian Alpine Club set up at the Cloister of San Paolo in via Boccaleone n° 19 by the local CAI Section.
The exhibition of the Italian Alpine Club is not only the memory of a great Italian mountaineering feat, but also a due homage to Mario Fantin, the Bolognese filmmaker who filmed the expedition, climbing up to 6,560 metres, an altitude which no one before he had shot images then. He left the lightest of his cameras and some instructions on how to use it to Compagnoni and Lacedelli, the two members of the expedition that reached the summit on 31 July 1954, so that the two could document the feat. Fantin had to do everything while respecting precise orders from Ardito Desio, who had informed him that he should never “stop a single man on the march, nor ever, in any way, disturb or modify the normal progress of the expedition”.
The exhibition itinerary presents panels and explanatory photos through various pages of Mario Fantin’s expedition notebook, found among the family papers, and the original tent, belonging to the Bolognese filmmaker and used during the expedition, has been erected.
An unexpected surprise of these first days of the exhibition was the visit of a group of twenty-five members of the CAI section of Val Pellice (TO) who are making a four-day trip in our province between Argenta, Comacchio and the valleys of the Delta Po, and who took advantage of the tourist tour in Ferrara to also visit the exhibition dedicated to the climbing of K2.
The group was led by the section president Dilva Castagno, by the general vice president of the CAI Giacomo Benedetti and accompanied by two members of the CAI of Argenta, who were received by the president of the CAI Ferrara Domenico Casellato who did the honors and illustrated the displays , receiving the pennant of the CAI section of Val Pellice.
The exhibition at the Cloister of San Paolo in via Boccaleone is open in the afternoon from 3pm to 7pm and from 2pm to 7pm on Saturday and Sunday 28 April 2024, when the exhibition will end. Entrance is free and open to all.
In the attached photos the moment of farewell with the delivery of the sectional pennant:
à The president of CAI Val Pellice, Dilva Castagno; the president of CAI Ferrara, Domenico Casellato; the general vice president of the Italian Alpine Club, Giacomo Benedetti.
à The tent belonging to Mario Fantin in the installation of the Italia K2 exhibition.
