"The bicycle and the Badile", Alberto Valtellina/Maurizio Panseri, Italy, 2022, 83'

"The bicycle and the Badile", Alberto Valtellina/Maurizio Panseri, Italy, 2022, 83'

On Friday, 4 July 1952, Hermann Buhl, who would later be known as a great mountaineer (among other, the first ascent to Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak), leaves Innsbruck on his bicycle, rides up the Inn valley, after 150 kilometres arrives at the base of the north-east face of Pizzo Badile, climbs it solo the Cassin route, descends, gets back on his bicycle and returns home, to be at work on Monday morning. A famous feat, narrated in a few simple pages in the beautiful autobiographical book “Achttausend drüber und drunter”. Summer 2021. Maurizio Panseri and Marco Cardullo decided that it no longer made sense to travel by car, especially to the mountains. They retrace the cycling and mountaineering itinerary of Hermann Buhl: for him the bicycle was a necessity and the means he had available to accomplish the feat, for ours it will be the means to rethink sport in a sustainable way. Maurizio and Marco’s journey offers a framework for meetings with people who have linked their name to that of the mountains.

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