They called him “the master of the brittle.” Giuliano Stenghel, whom all his friends called Sten, died falling from a wall on the Tavolara island, on the north-eastern coast of Sardinia, an area he had frequented for years and on whose cliffs overlooking the sea he had opened numerous climbing routes. From 1978 he was national mountaineering instructor of the Cai and for some years emeritus instructor. “I recognize that God made me for a purpose, but he wanted me to be an alpinist and when I climb I feel close to him and I am happy,” he said.
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Solidarity
Sten was also very involved in social issues through the Serenella association – named after his first wife, who died prematurely – which deals with solidarity projects, especially helping children. In 1998 with some friends he had promoted “Alpinism and solidarity” and in 2005, with some mountaineering instructors from the Trentino schools he started the “Per-Corso” project, a mountaineering course for drug addicts. He has written numerous books and stories about mountaineering, he was also the protagonist of the two-part film produced by Rai The Leap of the Witches, and in 1998 he directed and produced his first short film The child.
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experience
Stenghel, 67, from Trento from Rovereto, was considered one of the best Italian rock climbers. He crashed for reasons yet to be ascertained around 11.30 at Punta La Mandria della Tavolara, his body was recovered in the early afternoon by the Coast Guard and taken to Olbia. He was a very experienced mountaineer, who in the course of his long career had opened over 200 routes of great difficulty, in the last month only two at Tavolara, as he had told on his Facebook site: one dedicated to the mother of a dear friend of his, recently disappeared, and one named after the son of another friend, who also recently died. Sten was linked in particular to the southern side of the Sardinian island, where a 600-meter wall of white limestone rises, most of the climbing routes he had opened here can only be reached by boat.
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Love for Tavolara
“With all the mountains of my Trentino, why did I let myself be seduced and bewitched by the charm of a place so far away?”, Wrote Stenghel in Tavolara Island-A mountain in the middle of the sea.“I don’t know exactly, but the mysterious shapes of that rock in the middle of the sea completely captured me. There is something that I feel inside, that I felt from the beginning, a strange sensation and emotion, as if some mysterious force had called me to those places ».
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