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The Sellaronda Skimarathon,
come this year to its 17th edition, is an international
ski mountaineering competition that takes place at night
around the
Sella Massif, along the most famous ski runs of the world.
This competition is open to 2-people teams and, due to
its technical features, it is reserved only to expert and
skilled skiers. The athletes run equipped with specific
touring skis with synthetic seal skins on, for the ascents,
and they wear special front lamps to ski all the way down
the steep downhill runs.
The track is really amazing and it connects the main resorts
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Corvara, Arabba, Canazei and
Selva where, every year, in turn, the start and the
arrival of the competition takes place.
The competitors have to ski along a total of 42 kilometres
overcoming the most famous Four Passes of the Dolomites:
the Campolongo, the Pordoi, the Sella and the Gardena
passes for a total height difference of 2700 m. An exciting
and enduring race, just for very qualified and trained
skiers who have to be prepared even to face very unsecured
tracks and changing weather conditions. It can really be
considered a truly unique ski mountaineering competition
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On December, 26 2009, during
a rescue operation in Val Lasties, an avalanche fell on
four volunteers of the Alpine Rescue Team. Together with
Alex Dantone, Erwin Riz and Luca Prinoth Diego Perathoner,
the head and president of the Sellaronda Skimarathon, perished.
The Sellaronda Organizing Committee, supported by the family
Perathoner, decided to go on with the race because this
would have been Diego’s wish. Diego, was in fact
not only the president but mainly the heart and the soul
of this event. Diego succeeded in bringing the Sellaronda
Skimarathon to the top among the international touring-ski
competitions and, therefore, the only possible way for
us to honour his memory is to go on with his race. |
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Diego will live in our hearts and
in the hearts of all the touring-ski athletes and
sportsmen in general as he created something that
will remain forever.
Ciao Diego, you will always
be on the skis with us as we will go “inant
con tia idees” …ahead
with your ideas. |
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