We interviewed Mirella Tenderini, alpinism and great historical biographies of great personalities of mountaineering and exploration of personalities and even if not known. We asked her something about his conception of the journey and the mountain, where he lives permanently in years.
not only write great characters, I worked much less well known personality, such as my last book, dedicated to a young traveler who died in early 900. It is not the character I want, but something that strikes me in his story. They are all animated by strong altruism and generosity. Someone pointed out to me that my characters have all share a strong passion, a momentum that pushes them to leave everything and go. It is a quest for something greater than what can be found in everyday life comfortable.
When traveling by himself, trying to relive the experiences of his protagonists? What does this mean for you to travel?
Sometimes I traveled in the footsteps of my characters, interviewing people who had known them, but I travel for pleasure. I traveled a lot with my husband now travel alone or with very few friends, but they must be very expensive and few at a time. For me, travel is an extremely important and private.
In a world completely unknown (or so they believe) that the point of travel?
I wonder too often and often wonder who is accustomed to traveling. The trip is definitely an opening to the outside and never hurt anyone. Sure, I can not understand the journey distracted, that kind of trip that generates the accumulation of places seen ("I was here, here and here ...") but that does not leave anything really important in memory.
Today it would be possible to tell a story like that of the personality of which she narrates or part of a world irrevocably over?
We tend to always see the past as a mythical period in which they were a number of things that would now be repeated. Certainly in the way, the type of trip that I tell is gone forever: the highest mountains were reached, the poles have been achieved. However there are still lots of climbing routes to be opened, so many places to visit away from the crowds, so many things to do. It is typical of every generation to believe "that our only time we did, only we have seen. " If you are looking for real and who has a passion that animates it, can no doubt find great things to do.
In his literary production, the mountain occupies a very important: what is your relationship with this environment?
My relationship with the mountain is a relationship of life. I was born and raised in town and city I move very well, but more than fifty years living in the mountains. I left the city when I met my husband, a citizen like me, but mountain guide, I left, living with him for a dozen years in various shelters. Then, when we decided to make a normal life, we stopped and I'm back in town, but only for work. Today I live a modest 1100 meters above sea level where I can see the lake from the pre-Alps of Lombardy. It is an environment where good living, where everything is a bit 'more uncomfortable, a bit' more difficult, but a little 'closer to human.
The festival will coordinate the roundtable in memory of Claude Barbier: it has some special memories of him?
Of him now I would not say much, because I would like to talk about it more calmly and better Vallarsa. I've never been able to directly meet Claudio Barbier. Even before I had moved to the mountains, I had tried to contact him when I worked in Brussels in the first European Community in 1960 or 1961. I missed climbing and they told me that he would climb in the Ardennes in Belgium, rock climbing, as we have not done for thirty years. The name I knew it was Claude Barbier, but at the time was not in Belgium and then I could contact his climbing partner. This was our first "non-meeting", and then I have not had occasion to see him. Barbier was very close to the Alps, especially in the eastern Alps, but for now I would not talk about it: it is a subject I'm very excited and I want to prepare for duty, especially after meeting his partner Anna Lauwaert. I would like this character stand out above all the memories of those who lived with him, rather than my lack of knowledge.
What prospects do you see for a fragile environment such as mountains, scene of heroic stories and living environment for a variety of ethnic identities in the past but fragile and at risk of disappearing or becoming Indian reservation?
Prospects the mountain go hand in hand with the rest of the world. All the natural environment is threatened by man and his progress. Sure, the mountain has more defenses in my opinion, is an environment that has long life, while we have very short life and if we leave, we do not put anything back as it was before we began to colonize it. The problem right now is being able to keep it for us to be able to still enjoy as it was a time, without affecting the resources to exhaustion. You do not ever succeed in destroying the natural environment, it can only make it uninhabitable. Of course, once the mountains were truly the playground of the few who could afford, and now have to live with a crowd of rock climbers, more or less professionals. The sensitivity, however, has increased and I believe that after centuries man is finally beginning to understand how to live with the surrounding environment.
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