Fondazione Pesenti supports this year’s Milano Montagna Festival with the photographic exhibition “MUT. The Culture of Alpine Pasturing” by Marco Mazzoleni at BASE Milano, aiming to raise awareness and promote, also from a sustainable tourism perspective, the alpine pastures of the Bergamo area through extraordinary documentation of places and protagonists.
Milano Montagna Festival & Fuori Festival is an event dedicated to promoting mountain culture and outdoor sports. Starting this year, the Festival also expands into the Fuori Festival, a series of events across the city during the week from October 22 to 28. The theme of this edition is Traces—the marks we leave behind after our passage, those imprinted in personal and collective imagination by great mountaineers, explorers, climbers, skiers, writers, and filmmakers, as well as those that the mountains leave within us.
Festival dates: October 25-28, BASE Milano, via Bergognone 34
Among the international guests are Michela Moioli, gold medalist in snowboard cross at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, and Andrzej Bargiel, who closed the circle of previously deemed impossible Himalayan feats this summer with the first full ski descent of K2.
Alongside them, stories will be shared by top international athletes, mountaineers, freeriders, and explorers such as Hansjörg Auer, Xavier de le Rue, Matteo della Bordella, Arianna Tricomi, Markus Eder, Ettore Personnettaz, Shanty Cipolli, Luca Albrisi, Stefano Ruzza, Franco Collè, Eric Hjorleifson, and many others. They will talk about achievements that had remained impossible for decades but were realized thanks to the heavy snowfall of the 2018 winter season.
In addition to sports narratives, the stage will host international film premieres like Hoji with Eric Hjorleifson, Sky Piercer with Xavier de le Rue, Sam Smoothy, and Nadine Wallner, and Duality featuring the four athletes of the Trailrunning Team Vibram: Yulia Baykova, Audrey Bassac, Juliette Blanchet, and Uxue Fraile Azpeitia. Retrospectives of landmark mountain films, book presentations, and scientific talks will also be featured. For the first time at the Festival, the project for Italy’s first circular economy park, created by Bocconi University, will be presented.
As every year, action sports and entertainment for families and children (from 5 years old) will not be missing, including a free climbing wall managed by CAI Milano.
New for this edition: the Milano Montagna Library, a collection of mountain-themed books offering an open invitation to reading for everyone.
Milano Montagna also encourages younger generations to approach sports consciously, emphasizing the strong educational, cultural, and environmental values of the mountains. It offers training sessions and engagement activities for schools, fostering dialogue between students, athletes, and scientists.
Fuori Festival: October 22-28, citywide events..
This year’s novelty is the Fuori Festival, which aims to bring the mountains into the heart of the city. In partnership with CAI Milano, it will offer free activities such as Nordic walking, orienteering, the Monte Stella trail marking, and a taste of alpine environment through experiences organized by the CAI “Mediolanum” sections.
The Fuori Festival program will involve other major Milan institutions like MUBA (Children’s Museum of Milan), the Leonardo Da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology, the Ulrico Hoepli Planetarium, SEA Milan Airports, the Milan Library System, and the Italian Touring Club. It will also engage sports and outdoor shops, climbing gyms, bookstores, restaurants, and cultural and sports associations with events dedicated to enthusiasts of mountain sports, culture, and cuisine—leaving traces of the mountains throughout the city.
Fondazione Pesenti e Milano Montagna Comunicato Stampa www.milanomontagna.it/fuori-festival www.milanomontagna.it RASSEGNA STAMPA: L'Eco di Bergamo