Bonatti, eighty head- 
Walter Bonatti is eighty years old. His life was an adventure because of consistency of choices in your back straight, looking in the face who often was forced to lower their gaze and meetings.
Walter Bonatti is an atypical Italian, and Italian is that everyone should be. Boy painful at the time of the war, has colored his dreams on the banks of the Po, the river looking like the ocean. And looking ahead, always. For fifteen years
wrote pages of mountaineering legend. It was fortified in the drama. In 1954, twenty-four years have not yet completed, was chosen for the great Italian race to the summit of K2 by Ardito Desio. And in what is known to history as the greatest mountaineering undertaking in our history, lived one of the most dramatic experiences. It was he, along with Sherpa Mahdi, to lay the foundation of
"great triumph Italian" risked their lives together in a dramatic bivouac share over eight thousand. Without oxygen, without shelter, with equipment, modest in those days. Those were just a few meters higher, would-be conquerors of K2, were not fixed in place when he arrived Bonatti, full of energy that no one in the expedition had to give them the necessary tanks last attack. With that oxygen, Compagnoni and Lacedelli did the business.
Bonatti suffered fierce that memory, but remained silent ten long years. He became suspicious, it did, as they say,
"zest" always preferred, since then, companies in solitary or few trusted friends. And ten years later, when his unselfishness that was sold as carelessness and arrogance, he began his battle to restore the truth. He did not controversial, right in this story was written backwards. He did not seek glory. That had already found with his exploits. Before, during and after. Many of them unique, all written in the annals of mountaineering.
It took time. So, too. More than half a century. After all, that of Desio was the undertaking of a nation that came apart by war, who needed heroes. Erode the wall has not been easy. It took someone like Bonatti. One who has never given up, and magnified by the voices against adversity.
closed the period of large companies with direct winter, alone, on the north face of the Matterhorn. And fifteen years later closed the relationship with
period, for which he was a pioneer of reportage "in distant lands," because the director just wanted to force him to come time and manner of something that was and could only be his.
"I had another job, but I could not do otherwise." No, really could not, Walter Bonatti. It was not like he had set his life. A life eighty still shines, facing tomorrow, and it is a lesson that should be heard. No shortcuts to reach an objective. No compromises. The strength and awareness of the talent, cultivated without raising his voice. They are not simple choices, and in fact has often paid the Walter Bonatti. But today it is in history with his hands, his face clean with his creativity and the adventures that has given us, opening the mind. I am eighty
by applause. The adventure of a great man.
