Giovanni Quirici

Le film relate l’ouverture d’un big wall (700 m) en Himalaya dans la face encore vierge du ‘Shoshala’ (Nord de l’Inde, Baspa Valley) en compagnie des suisses Elie Chevieux et Giovanni Quirici en 2010, le tout à plus de 4700 mètres d’altitude ! Cet opus est aussi un bel hommage à Giovanni, décédé cet été dans la face Nord de l’Eiger.

This year the Mammut Teamtrip proves that you can also go climbing in Kyrgyzstan. Beginning of July Nina Caprez, Stephan Siegrist, David Lama and Giovanni Quirici have packed their backpacks and headed for Tien Shan, a mountain range in south-western Kyrgyzstan. There they are planning the first ascent of a big wall route in Karavshin Valley. Maybe it is the lack of eight-thousanders which refused the small country at the border to China to be ranked amongst big climbing destinations such as Pakistan and Nepal. It is high time to chance this.