Emilio Comici , the greatest mountaineer in the period between the two world wars, with Lew two hundred new routes opened in the Dolomites, represented, together with Riccardo Cassin and others, the Italian response to the German sestogradisti. Technical skills, purity of style and search for the most aesthetically clean line are the distinctive features of Comici, not surprisingly "inventor" of the direttissima, an approach to climbing that "reconfigured the ethics of adventure for the alpinists of the twentieth century".
Sense of competition and deep loyalty to comrades. political commitment and "remoteness", independence and need for public recognition are just some of the contradictions highlighted by this biography, which also focuses on the ambivalent relationship with fascism... His direction, his battle, his revenge were engraved on the wall.