ProRock Outdoor Newsletter 3 - 2024: NEXT "SKIALP" PROGRAMMES
Ski mountaineering is a great passion of ours....many consider it and indeed it is a very tiring sport, but if you get into it step by step, with targeted training, it is easy to become bewitched by the very magic of the ascent: always off the usual routes, away from the lifts, away from the free-ride helicopters, just silence, sharing, reflection.
Nothing better at a time when there is a lot of talk about sustainability: it is a skiing/mountaineering discipline that, through the use of specially created skis and bindings, seal skins (synthetic!), and avalanche protection systems, allows one to move around in the mountains during snowy periods, both ascending and descending, as a stand-alone activity or as a winter approach to mountaineering routes.
Very soon (9-16 April) the group heading to Norway, to the area of Tromso and the Lyngen Alps, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, will be leaving (still a couple of places available last second due to cancellation).
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but there are many more of our proposals, which we try to constantly modulate according to the increasingly poor weather conditions, some of which are already on the calendar:
https://prorockoutdoor.it/product/scialpinismo-sul-gran-sasso/
https://prorockoutdoor.it/product/scialpinismo-al-monte-rosa/
https://prorockoutdoor.it/product/scialpinismo-in-oberland/
Also constant is our search for new destinations: the desire to travel and visit unusual places with the excuse of ski mountaineering persists: skiing is the excuse, the important thing is the journey
Michel Parmentier (travelling ski mountaineer)
This year's choice was Kosovo, a country close to us about which little is known and, wrongly, often judged dangerous or unsafe. Kosovo is not a tourist destination and is only associated with the recent Balkan tragedies. It is the youngest state in Europe (the declaration of independence was in 2008) and its recent history is somewhat troubled. After the NATO bombings in '99 to defend the Albanians from the Serbs, who considered Kosovo part of their country, the region became a UN protectorate and is still garrisoned by the multinational force KFOR, which is deployed to defend the symbolic places (churches and monasteries) of the Orthodox Serbs. The majority of the population are Albanians of the Muslim religion.
We had no problems whatsoever; on the contrary, we found a land of adventure, still untouched by mass tourism, and it is very special to go on a trip and find soldiers from different nations on a mission.
Find a small report of our experience here, with Alpine Guide Franco Laudanna from Guerra, follow us for next year's dates!
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