Manfrotto supports Simone Moro
Monday, March 09 2009 - 01:00 Simone awarded live on TV
Last week Simone has been awarded with the Dalla Longa Award. The reason for the award is the first clib in alpine style in just 43 hours of of Beka Brakai Chhok 6940 m (Pakistan) with Hervè Barmasse. The a/r climb has set a record in the alpinism history. The cerimony has been aired live on Sky channel 950. read
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Wednesday, February 11 2009 - 01:00 Official Press Release: Makalu (8463m), the winter crown of the Himalaya
The winter summit of Makalu (8463m) - until now it has never been trodden by the human foot during the harsh winter season. At 2pm on Monday 9th February 2009 The North Face global athlete Simone Moro, together with his team-mate Denis Urubko, reached the summit and realised the dreams of so many. The winter crown of the Himalayas, as Makalu had become known, is their deserved reward. Simone and Denis have touched the limits of human endurance. They have opened a chapter into a new era by their success on one of the remaining high-altitude challenges. This 'crown' had posed the last great challenge for high altitude Himalayan... read
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Tuesday, February 10 2009 - 01:00 Simone Moro and Denis Urubko make winter history on Makalu
Our friend and testimonial Simone Moro together with his partner Kazakh Denis Urubko summited Makalu yesterday at around 2 pm local time. It's hard to miss Simone's triumph in his remarkable voice dispatch: "Tina, we closed the games! Makalu is not more virgin in winter, after 29 years, I and Denis we climbed to the summit - to the last centimeter. It was incredibly hard, very cold and very windy. 7 minutes before 2 pm." "We started a few minutes after 6 o'clock in the morning. We climbed very well, very regularly but the last three hours... it was really...we fight with the jet stream. Makalu don't... read
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Monday, February 02 2009 - 01:00 Simone and Manfrotto close to the top
On Friday Simone and Denis reached 7400 mt. A very important day for them, here is an excerpt from his official expedition blog. Today Denis and I decided to continue in our plane despite a terrible windy night and cold temperature. Karl Gabl our friend and forecast "guru" from Innsbruck, said that today we get a -26 temperature at 7400 m and 110- 120 Km/h wind speed. If we combine the 2 things it means to feel around -40° degree sensation on the body!! That's why we fight all the day to climb the narrow and difficult gully toward Makalu La 7400 m. Our feet and hands were frozen. We stopped 50 -80 meters before the "gate" to Makalu La to... read
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Tuesday, December 16 2008 - 01:00 Simone Announces his new winter project: Mount Makalu. Manfrotto will be with him for the ascent of one of the harder eight-thousanders
To communicate the greatness and emotion of a memorable expedition, images and video are essential. For this reason Simone Moro, also for his next expedition, will take Manfrotto products with him, promising his followers daily HD video and dispatches. Simone documented his last winter ascent of Shisha Pangma (8027m) with awesome images showing him while taking pictures in front of terrific landscapes, and touching videos, where he tried breathless to describe the extreme conditions of his ascent. Even this time, confronting with one of the hardest peaks of the world, mount Makalu, Simone will take our photo and video supports with him.... read
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Tuesday, August 05 2008 - 02:00 SUMMIT!! SUMMIT!! SUMMIT!!
Beka Brakai Chhok nearly 7000 m (6940m) is not more a virgin mountain? It had been difficult, delicate and had but finally me climbed it. We knew about 2-3 attempts before and also this year in June there had been a couple of alpinist that attempted it. Beka Brakai Chhook is really a beautiful mountain. Before to describe our climb we would like to express or sadness for the tragic events on K2 and Nanga Parbat some weeks ago? I and Hervè decided to avoid the 8000 meters this summer (too many people) and try something different in a wild area as Baltar Glacier (we thought about Batura II). I had been before in 2005 and I knew the high... read
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Tuesday, July 29 2008 - 02:00 The Training... new video.
It's already 13 days that we are in base camp after our climb of Batokshi Peak 6050 m. We spent those days here in base camp climbing on the boulders here around, walking on the slake line, make some excursions, repairing our generators, but most of the time we were waiting for the good weather. In fact we get rain and snow and heavy clouds. Now it looks that the wait is close to be finished. This morning we received the weather forecast from our friend of Innsbruck, Karl Gabl, and he predict the arrival of high pressure and low wind starting from Wednesday till Sunday. That's why this morning we were smiling doing our daily training :-)... read
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Friday, July 25 2008 - 02:00 Ciao! We are back, on line.
After 1 week without electricity due a technical problem with our generator (it is completely broken after a 4 days "swimming" due heavy rain in BC) we finally get my second generator here in base camp. So starting from today we are again able to be in touch with the world. The past week, after our Batokshi peak 6050 m alpine style climb in 9 hours 30 minutes) had been spent from us climbing on the nice rock here around, bouldering and exercising on the slake line. We decided to stay here in BC because we gave our eventual support to the rescue team on Nanga Parbat, so we decided to be always ready here in case we have to be picked up from... read
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Monday, July 14 2008 - 02:00 Here we go!!
Hallo guys!! We are on line? We arrived 2 days ago in the Batura base camp after 6 days spent travelling by flight from Milan to Islamabad, organize all the burocratic procedure in the Pakistani capital and than driving along the Karakorum Highway by bus and than by jeep to the village of Bar. From there in 3 days trekking we reached the 4107 meters of our base camp. I was not used to spend 6 days only to arrive at the base of the mountain? in fact in the last expeditions I spent 2-3 weeks and more to realize the same transfers? I'm with Herve Barmasse ad our dream is to reach the unclimbed summit of Batura II 7762 m, that is... read
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Tuesday, July 08 2008 - 02:00 The Project: Batura II
It is from my previous harsh and critical analysis (which will bring me new enemies) of the world in which I belong, that a few years ago my differing mountaineering journey started, and it is from this base that I thought about my new project. I tried to materialize the concepts of altitude, difficulty, solitude, uncertainty, adventure and the unknown into a unique mountaineering project. I asked myself which was the highest, un-violated, unclimbed mountain in the world? It is a well known fact that there are hundreds of un-violated and unexplored mountains on our planet and I wanted to find the identity of the highest of these peaks. ... read
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Friday, July 04 2008 - 02:00 Reflections: Genesis of an Expedition
There are too many people at 8000 meters, and each one is trying to complete the collection of 14 mountains higher than that fateful altitude. For those who do not aspire to the collection but nonetheless aim to reach the summit without a thought that in 95% of the cases it means climbing the "normal" route which though difficult, represents the first an ascent made half a century ago. Another fashion is of achieving the first ascent of one's "category" on "X" summit; the first Italian, the first American, the first Senegalese, the first deaf man, the first lame man, the first woman, the first man to walk... read
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Monday, June 16 2008 - 02:00 Interview with Simone
To be part of an elite group is a privilege that requires sacrifice, dedication and perseverance. Only those people and companies that are driven by sound values and constantly pursue excellence can lay claim to belonging to a select group of achievers. If an element of risk is added to the equation, such as that underlying any kind of mountaineering experience - a variable which sometimes has fatal consequences too - accomplishing such a lofty athletic feat can be considered even more exceptional. Simone Moro, a 41 year old mountaineer from Bergamo (Italy), has long been considered part of the international mountaineering top league,... read
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Tuesday, February 26 2008 - 01:00 Facing the storm!
On its way to the top, our tripod with Sione has to face a long lasting storm. This is in Simone's words the situation: "A winter climb of a 8000 mt peak is a real challenge in the challenge. Cold, wind, lack of oxygen, technical difficulties, shocks and many other unexpected events make the life of a climber and of his equipment a real hell! No chance to work without gloves on surfaces that most of time are pure ice. So, stopping a panting ascent and operating a video or a photo camera become quite a juggle costing a lot of energy and will (very often very tough situations get you in denial). Using a tripod for these operations... read
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Wednesday, February 13 2008 - 01:00 Simone explains the mission!
Shooting at high altitude is tough and Simone explains why, and why he chose Manfrotto. It involves temperatures down to -50 C°, winds up to 150 KM/h, storms and little light. Our commitment was to give him the lightest and most stable tripod we could make, so Simone could only be concerned about shooting and breathing, which is one of the great issues in high altitude. read
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Thursday, January 24 2008 - 01:00 Something, in the end, happened.
Not stuck in skardu anymore, Simone is midway to Base Camp. We talked to him today and that's what he told us. "It's not really what we have been waiting for in Pakistan for almost a month, yet... better than nothing. Today, we flew up to Paju 3400 m, 60% of the way between Skardu and Base Camp in Broad Peak. Our Pilot wasn't confident about the weather, and preferred not to face the very strong wind blowing up there. Two little Ecureill choppers came as well today, which were actually able to reach 6000 m with no problems. They would have been good for us to go all the way to Base Camp, but we have a lot of equipment,... read
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Home Biografia Equipment
09 - Simone awarded live on TV
11 - Official Press Release: Makalu (8463m), the winter crown of the Himalaya 10 - Simone Moro and Denis Urubko make winter history on Makalu 02 - Simone and Manfrotto close to the top
16 - Simone Announces his new winter project: Mount Makalu. Manfrotto will be with him for the ascent of one of the harder eight-thousanders
05 - SUMMIT!! SUMMIT!! SUMMIT!!
29 - The Training... new video. 25 - Ciao! We are back, on line. 14 - Here we go!! 08 - The Project: Batura II 04 - Reflections: Genesis of an Expedition
16 - Interview with Simone
26 - Facing the storm! 13 - Simone explains the mission!
24 - Something, in the end, happened. 22 - Waiting for the making of... 16 - Let the adventure begin...
 

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