Courmayeur Feeling Mountain

Friday 28 March:
Marco Camandona, mountain guide from Valle d’Aosta

The protagonist of the second event, on 28 March, will be Marco Camandona, a mountain guide from Valle d’Aosta who recently completed the ascent of all fourteen of the world’s 8000 metre peaks on Gasherbrum 1, in Pakistan; at the Courmayeur Cinema, he will recount his exploits and his love of the mountains through images and films.

He has never used supplementary oxygen for his ascents. He is the 20th climber without oxygen to succeed in this feat.

Camandona reached the summit of Gasherbrum 1 together with his brother-in-law Dante Luboz; Abele Blanc, with whom Camandona started climbing eight-thousanders, was also part of the expedition. In 1996, the first attempt to climb Manaslu was made complicated by suddenly changing weather conditions; two years later, the mountaineer tried again, and from there, the achievement of all 14 summits: Camandona first flew the red Aosta Valley flag in 1998 on Cho Oyu (8,210 m) and Shisha Pangma (8. 048 m), which took the form of a speed ascent within a few days of each other; then in 2000 on K2 (8,611 m); in 2006 on Annapurna (8,091 m); in 2010 on Everest (8. 848 m); in 2014 on Kangchenjunga (8,586 m); in 2016 on Makalu (8,463 m); in 2018 on Lhotse (8,516 m); in 2019 on Manaslu (8,163 m); in 2021 on Dhaulagiri (8,067 m); in 2022 on Nanga Parbat (8126 m) and Broad Peak (8047 m).