They ascend on skis up to three quarters of the way up the slope, then take off their skis to continue on foot and tie up in three roped parties. There they begin the actual ascent to the mountain. arrives at the Giogo di Fassa, which at around 2300m marks the border between the Alpe di Siusi and the Val di Fassa. (4.3 The Sassopiatto – Plattkofel, on the right, and the Sassolungo - Langkofel, Photo Grivel archive) The goal for Wednesday 18 th March is the ascent to Sassopiatto - Plattkofel (2955m) with the subsequent descent into Val di Fassa. Ten customers accompanied by Toni, Mario Senoner (from Val Gardena), Remo Passera (from Gressoney) and porter Mirko Minuzzo (from Cervinia) participate.Īfter the first two days of skiing, the group sleeps in the night of 17 th March at the Kristiania hotel in Santa Cristina in Val Gardena. Sunday 15 th March 1970 is the start of the first Week proposed by the programme, the “Haute Route dei Monti Pallidi”, in its third edition, with the meeting point at the Costalunga Pass in the Fassa Valley in the Dolomites. In the local press, Toni is presented as the leading exponent of ski mountaineering in Italy. At the beginning of the season, on the evening of Friday, 13 th March, as part of the fourth ski mountaineering and off-piste course organised by the Bolzano CAI (Italian Alpine club), Toni holds the third theory lesson with a lecture entitled “Modern ski mountaineering trends”. His activities as a lecturer and speaker also continue. (4.2 Toni Gobbi, Grand Combin Week 1962, Photo Gobbi family/Grivel archive) The programme for the “Settimane” of 1970 proposes 8 weeks (from the classic Haute Route, to the Dolomites, to the Dauphiné, to the Maurienne) and also, from 1 st May to 9 th May, the fourth extra-European expedition, the “ski-mountaineering Decade to Damavand (5770m) in Iran”. Its “National High Mountain Ski-Mountaineering School” enters its fourth year of activity, with the “introductory ski-mountaineering courses” and the “off-piste technique improvement courses” starting on 22 nd February 1970 in Courmayeur. In the spring-summer of 1969, they involved 66 clients on various itineraries, 7 of whom took part in the second Italian ski-mountaineering expedition to Greenland (15 th June – 8 th July 1969). His main creature, the “Settimane Sci-alpinisitche di Alta Montagna” (High Mountain Ski-Mountaineering Weeks), have become an international reference in the field and during the season they employ, in addition to Toni, 4 guides and several porters. His activity as a mountain guide is intense and continuous, always carried out under the banner of prudence and with great attention to safety: in 24 years of activity, he has never a serious accident. His sports shop in Courmayeur is a point of reference throughout the Alps, both for the products he sells and for Toni's own willingness to advise, listen and discuss with mountaineers stopping by. He is no longer a top mountaineer, but remains a member of the French GHM and the British Alpine Club. (4.1 Vietnam war, moon landing and Piazza Fontana)Īt the beginning of 1970, Toni is 55 years old and he is in the midst of his professional maturity. The Americans succeed in landing on the moon on 21 st July 1969, but the Vietnam War ties up resources and causes much discontent. In Italy, the economic boom brought a strong improvement in lifestyle, leading to the protests of Sixty-eight, until the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, on 12th December 1969, which left 17 people dead and 88 injured and marked the beginning of the “anni di piombo” (Years of Lead). The end of the 1960s mark a period of great change and transformation in society.
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