Through paper, video, and photography
Created as part of the Viva Margherita project, this course explores the connection between Gressoney, the Lys Valley, and Monte Rosa through the perspectives of scientists, historians, and educators. Covering climate, glaciers, photographic archives, high-altitude research, and community memory, it shows how the mountains have changed and how the region continues to reinvent itself between past and present.
Journalism and the mountains: in the footsteps of Margherita of Savoy on the centenary of her death
On the centenary of the death of Margherita of Savoy, the first Queen of Italy, the Viva Margherita project is taking place in Gressoney and the Lys Valley (AO), where the Queen loved to spend her summers exploring the peaks of Monte Rosa. Following in her footsteps, other “queens”—scientists, athletes, and experts on the region—have kept alive the common thread that links women, the environment, and the mountains.
This training course illustrates how the mountains and the Gressoney community were represented in Margherita’s time (in newspapers and photographs) and how they are narrated today, in an era marked by climate change and the glacier crisis.
The course lecturers
Lesson 1
Paolo Paci, director of Meridiani Montagne
Interviewer: Bianca La Placa, journalist for .eco – l’educazione sostenibile
Lesson 2
Michele Freppaz, head of the LTER Angelo Mosso research site, professor of nivology and pedology, University of Turin
Lesson 3
Elisa Palazzi, climatologist, Department of Physics, University of Turin
Lesson 4
Nadia Guindani, naturalist and science communicator
Lesson 5
Gabriele Ardizio, historian and project manager of Viva Margherita
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