(This section of Orizzontintorno is edited by Carlo only)

If I think about that, it's odd enough: only one of us two travels upwards, but we set our altitude record together, in Himalaya, at 5,300 meters a.s.l.

I began to go up on the mountains on my dad's shoulders, when I was maybe four or five. He took me along the tracks of Brenta and Dolomites, from hut to hut. More and less in those years he gave me my first pair of skis, handcut by a joiner. Strange destiny for a child born in Genoa, by the sea.

I've never left off to go on mountains and, as a matter of fact, the more the years have passed, the more I've got ill of that. Climbing school when I was eighteen, then allround and extreme ski school. And still, high altitude climbings, while eating the Reinhold Messner's books and dreaming about climbing an 8,000 meters peak.

Nowadays my upwards travels deal more and more with my books of mountain than with the mountains themselves. I have a family, I have a job, I have no time, I almost have no more mates for climbing, as they have a family, they have a job, they have no time. But when I think to a new trip my first thought is always the same: an onwards travel for reaching a new upwards travel, everywhere in the world.

These pages are a short tribute to what I really love: my vertical horizons.