Documentary by Riccardo Topazio
The documentary recounts Bonatti's years in Bardonecchia and the welcome that the town offered him, with testimonies, photographs, film footage and contributions of the time. Already very famous, fresh from the success and also the personal sorrows following the Italian conquest of K2 in 1954, he was called at the beginning of 1955, by the Bardonecchia Town Council, to work as an Alpine Guide and ski instructor. He would stay there for two years, ‘adopted’ by the town, which also conferred honorary citizenship on him on 24 August 1955.
8:45 p.m. presentation of the CROSSALPS project, the ski mountaineering crossing of the Alps that stops in Bardonecchia.
9:00 p.m. presentation of the documentary by Roberto Mantovani
9:30 p.m. screening of the documentary ‘Walter Bonatti in Bardonecchia’.
Saturday 7 June 2025
8:45 pm | Palazzo delle Feste
Free entrance