Exploration and research
High altitudes have always fascinated travellers and
explorers, drawing them to the peaks and glaciers and driving the most
passionate adventurers on to the most extreme feats, for which many have
received major awards and accolades. Travellers and explorers were the first to
come into contact with the world's harsh environmental conditions, which are at
the same time fascinating and mysterious, inaccessible to most people and yet
in constant contact with humans and with other ecosystems on the planet.
Curiosity, passion, the desire to discover, and the adventurous spirit are
still pushing men and women to conquer the highest peaks. At the end of the
exhibition there is no shortage of interesting references to those explorers
who were the first to face the unknown Alpine valleys and to reach the summits
of unexplored mountains: you can find short films telling the stories of
“historic climbers”, as well as about the mountain equipment once used, like
old crampons, ice axes, hemp ropes and pitons.