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Corsica!
Alpine history in the Mediterranean 1852-1972
A picture lecture with book presentation of the new book by Irmtraud Hubatscheck and Joël Jenin
About the book:
Corsica!
Alpine history in the Mediterranean 1852-1972
A picture and reading book with a foreword by Kurt Diemberger
Since the middle of the 19th century, the mountains of Corsica have attracted mountaineers from many European countries: English, Swiss, Belgians, Germans, Austrians, French, Italians, even Norwegians and Czechs. Corsica was fascinating and offered a new space for mountain adventures at a time when the Alps had largely been discovered and climbed.
This island, with some "exotic" customs for Central Europeans, offered promising prospects: seeing the sea from a snow-covered peak or climbing virgin peaks and towers was a great attraction for alpinists. Some of them made history in the mountains of Europe - and even beyond (Canada, the Caucasus, the Himalayas).
In the "golden age of alpinism", mountaineers often came from a wealthy background, they were educated and cultured - lawyers, doctors, writers, painters, geologists, botanists, even English pastors - and were keen observers of rural Corsica and its inhabitants. They wrote about it with a deft pen in the numerous Alpine Club journals and yearbooks - which in turn inspired other mountaineers to visit the island.
This alpine history of Corsica covers the period from 1852 to 1972, the year in which the Corsican Regional Park and the GR20 were founded. Research in alpine and private libraries across Europe has brought to light a wealth of texts, letters, drawings and mostly unpublished photos, bringing this "pioneering period" of the Corsican mountains back to life.