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Silvio “Gnaro” Mondinelli can bear witness to this. He is one of the few climbers in the world to have summited all fourteen of the globe’s highest peaks – almost always using Ferrino tents –summiting without the use of additional oxygen. “I was in a Ferrino tent,” Gnaro remembers, “when I was experiencing survival at its very limits at an altitude of 7000 metres. If I managed to survive the polar storms and blizzards, then it is also thanks to the strength and resistance of those ‘eagles’ nests’ that protected and saved me”. Gnaro tells us more about his nights in a Ferrino tent, “as light as a cocoon”. Or with “silvered sides to protect against the ultraviolet rays.” Or “in the shape of a space shuttle, like Colle Sud, where the fastenings had to deal with winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour on the 8000-metre peaks of Everest and K2”.
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