The mountain offers children an ideal terrain to live a rewarding experience on a sporting level, but above all for the maturation of character as well as being an opportunity to learn to establish a correct relationship with the environment. A review of the scientific literature recently appeared in the American journal Pediatrics it addresses the relationship between nature and children’s health, confirming its positive effects also from a scientific point of view, and confirming the need for children to attend natural environments as a public health priority.
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“But frequenting natural environments cannot ignore education and the awareness of the need to protect and preserve them. Downhill skiing is a fun sport, which is practiced in the open air and allows children to get closer to the woods and the peaks, but if in order to practice it it is necessary to consume the territory and use unsustainable energy, and if the changes climatic conditions put us in front of the need to use energy and water in unethical quantities, perhaps we must think that the time has come to review our relationship with sport and with the mountains “, explain Elena Uga and Giacomo Toffol, Paediatricians of the Association Cultural Pediatricians (Acp) within the Research Group Pump, Pediatricians for a Possible World.
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by Irma D’Aria
The theme was rekindled in view of the Milan-Cortina Olympics in 2026, an event theoretically based on the ideals of sportsmanship, brotherhood and fairness that inspired De Coubertin at the end of the nineteenth century. On 24 October last, 52 associations and committees – including CAI, WWF, Italia Nostra, ISDE Italia – demonstrated in Cortina against the Olympics, in a peaceful march to denounce the assault on the mountain. Since then there have been numerous events and positions taken not against the Olympic Games per se, but against the construction of new ski lifts and the consequent destruction of the mountains..
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by Laura Taccani
As he explains Paolo Cognetti, author of the novel The eight mountains“But do skiers know how to make a ski slope? You take a side of the mountain that is cleared and go on digging, weeding and leveling until that side looks like a straight, unobstructed slide. Then the slide must be covered with snow, because it is now impossible to face the winter without artificial snow: upstream of the track a huge basin is dug, filled with water from high-altitude streams and with that of rivers pumped from the valley floor, and along electrical and hydraulic pipes are laid on the entire slope to power the guns planted on the edge of the runway every hundred meters. Meanwhile, dozens of concrete blocks are buried; in the blocks driven into pylons and between one pylon and the other drawn steel cables; at the beginning and at the end of the cable built departure and arrival stations equipped with motors: this is the cable car. All that’s missing are the bars and restaurants along the way, and a road to serve it all. Trucks and bulldozers and off-road vehicles “.
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by Guido Andruetto
“In the case of downhill skiing, sports and contact with nature are increasingly in sharp contrast. It becomes essential that skiers and families also start reflecting in this light: and there are alternatives “, he remembers Elena Uga “There is cross-country skiing, which has much less impacting facilities and much more respectful of the natural environment; for those who are better at skiing there is the possibility to go up the mountain with skins and to go down with skis in ski-mountaineering routes; for everyone there is the opportunity to walk with snowshoes, or, when there is no snow, to walk or cycle in the midst of nature “.
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by Carlo Bellieni
They explain to Cai, the Italian Alpine Club: “When it comes to the mountains, we must remember that the natural environment is an environment that must be known and respected, also to ensure that he respects us, therefore children (and families) must taught how to approach the mountains safely, with the appropriate equipment and with adequate knowledge of climatic conditions and routes. The ski lifts now allow families of skiers and hikers to reach very high altitudes without great effort and often putting themselves in conditions of danger. We have reached a historic moment in which it is essential to teach future generations what priorities are and to be willing to give up in order to enjoy the natural environments that we have exploited up to now in the future “.
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