Nella falesia di Narango sopra il Lago di Garda Camilla Bendazzoli ha salito Cinque Uve. È la sua prima via d’arrampicata sportiva gradata 8c. Sono passati oltre vent’anni da quando la spagnola Josune Bereziartu è diventata la prima donna a salire una via da 8c e, anche se ormai il livello femminile grazia all’austriaca Angela…
Read moreArrampicata a Finale ieri e oggi… e non solo. Di Gianni Ghiglione
Gianni Ghiglione, uno dei pionieri delle prime vie di arrampicata a Finale Ligure, racconta alcune vicende del primo periodo (dal 1968 al 1976) e discute più ampiamente sull’arrampicata, l’esplorazione, l’utilizzo degli spit e l’alpinismo. Maggio 1968, Jimi Hendrix atterra a Milano pronto per la sua Italian Experience. Nelle radio del Paese risuonano i ritmi nuovi,…
Read moreLorax Project, arrampicata e base jump in Tasmania
Il film The Lorax Project con Kamil Sustiak, Martin Buchauer, Lee Jackson, Pete Wyllie, Jared Irwin e Simon Blair e la loro grande avventura in Tasmania: ripetere la via d’arrampicata Lorax per poi effettuare un BASE jump dal Frenchmans Cap. Frenchmans Cap è la montagna più alta del sud-ovest della Tasmania, inuna delle zone più selvagge e spettacolari…
Read moreUsufruct: Rethinking our national inheritance
The Green New Deal has reignited old debates between the left and right in countries around the world. Setting aside climate deniers (if only it were that easy!), the argument is between those who believe a radical large-scale spending program to combat climate change will stimulate economic growth and those who fear it will inflate…
Read moreMorning 9: Shibuno’s win Ouimet-ish? | A sensible USGA rule change | Chamblee: Spieth must stop tinkering
By Ben Alberstadt ([email protected]; @benalberstadt on Instagram) August 6, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. Another Ouimet? Helluva take from Geoff Shackelford regarding Hinako Shibuno’s Women’s British Open win. “It may not be mentioned with Ouimet’s shocker at Brookline, Jack’s comeback in 86 or Tiger’s two most triumphant Masters wins in 1997 and 2019, but…
Read moreSwing speed: How do you compare?
How fast a golfer swings the club has had an increasingly higher correlation to how much money the top PGA Tour professionals make in recent years—this is no secret. What has been a secret, until now, is how fast other golfers your age swing and how you compare. No one has known, or if they…
Read moreMass shootings in the US: the epidemic worsens
In less than 13 hours, two mass shooters in Texas and Ohio left 23 dead and 53 injured. These are only two massacres of a total of 251 of this year so far in the US as the epidemic worsens. This phenomenon of extreme violence began to gain force after the Sandy Hook shooting of…
Read morePresidential elections in Argentina: silence wrapped in noise
This year is an election year. A great part of the provinces and municipalities of Argentina have already made their decisions however, on a federal level, the mother of all battles is yet to occur. The Province of Buenos Aires will carry out its election of governor and mayors on the same day that Argentine…
Read moreAfter the revolution: Sudan’s women face backlash from Islamic fundamentalists
“If I could walk, I would go to the streets again”, Muna*, a 25-year-old Sudanese protester, told me over the phone recently. She was shot and severely injured by the army during an early June crackdown against a sit-in in the capital Khartoum, when activists say more than 100 people were murdered in one day…
Read moreUSGA relaxes U.S. Open exemption rule for U.S. Am winners
No longer will the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur champions have to make the difficult decision of retaining amateur status to take advantage of the exemption into the U.S. Open. The USGA announced today that, beginning in 2020, regardless of whether a player turns pro or remains an amateur s/he is still guaranteed a…
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