The Common History

In 1983, they frequent with assiduous constancy the basin of the Fréboudze or Fréboudges (first quartzes fumés of a certain merit) in Val Ferret, the Piccolo Monte Bianco (gnawed of ematite, brookiti) in Val Veny, and, always in the same one, until under the unnamed one from the Shelter Monzino, in the attempt to run after the fabulous anatasis, that an inhabitant of Biella's City had discovered you, he will be known then, to the Aiguille Jean Joseph Croux.

In 1984, it is the time of the Shelter Gonella. Too many Italian collectors beginning from the cristallier in Milan Walter Monistier, had to the asset, besides the numerous other mineralogical kinds, recovered in this immense stone glacier splendid zeoliti, as well as the quartzes with inclusion of bissolite etc. Macché! (= not on one's life!) Roberto and Franco also "ficcanasando" (= putting inside the nose) until under the towers of the Aiguilles Grises, they reenter downstream without the although least small crystal in the backpack; the times were not yet you mature. Just the case to say it. Wanted us patience in to pursue them. (In the meantime with a regurgitation of passion for the mountaineering that DE TEMPS EN TEMPS manifests him, in this same year in July, Roberto is again on the Emilius with Osvaldo in the repetition of their street "direct" of the 80 on the Wall North, opening a new itinerary slightly diversified and more direct to the peak together with Sandro "Lupetto" Casalegno and of Maurizio Castellan).

But we come to 1985, since for their formation of cristalliers the basin of the Triolet will be important. In fact Roberto ascends with Osvaldo the Aiguille de Talèfre in day from Arnouva for the East Crest (Emile Rey's Route), that Roberto effects, but not "he sees", being busy to dig as a mole along all the 700 meters to realize then, to the call of the companion to exact Midday, to have arrived in Top); the mountain he introduced a great deal still snowy, but enough to understand than this thick coverings he was curly in diaclasi (veins of quartzite). Insofar from here in before they begin to board it with raids in the numerous countries to come. Nevertheless, it needs present tener that also in this zone, not however of the others on the thick one where the geodynamics has been intense, the cristallierses of the past or more recent, you were already made to seduce, exporting you from the cracks a swarm of unbelievable material, deriving is from Courmayeur and is from Chamonix through the Hill Pierre Joseph. Insofar only the heatwave that already in this period it was in course and effectiveness in to reduce certain hanging snowfields reorganizing them, he would have allowed their some crack virgin.

Meanwhile in 1986, (year of the bicentennial of the first slope to the Mount Blac: besides also the 1787 second slope, was performed by three cristalliers of Chamonix in preparation of that scientific of the de Saussure), Roberto, in a solitary turn on the East Wall of the Aiguille of Estellette, it almost discovers without wanting him an important site. Climbing subsequently with his companion, having after all Franco a certain superior intuitive smell to his besides being a "virtuoso della mazzetta" (= a small mace, even wooden), here that to surprise a litoclase reveals him quartzes drug ialins (with crystals "faden" or with soul, from thousand and a night). It will become source of champions for many, many years to come.

This way in 1988 on to end some month of August, sprightly return on the superior branch of the Glacier of the Triolet and from this toward the Plateau Méridional; with them the Aspirant Guide of Gressan Stephen Grivel (the only survivor with Hans Marguerettaz of Courmayeur of the 1985 Liskamms tragedy). The summer was torrid and obviously also the conditions of the permafrost assumed scarce consistence on a great inherent gully in the Slope Southeast of the Talèfre, where they have to absolutely go himself. L'équipe avoids a first discharge of ice above the Goedecke's Route (III°+), while more aloft on the couloir Roberto comes surprised from two blocks suddenly detached by the superior hanging snowfield with his companions that think him sold. Then, during the reentry, the same lavishes him to assist Stephen, being awkwardly him same slipped on the rocky plates remaining crushed with the whole load and turned to belly down toward the terminal crevasse with the impossibility to move only a finger and with the tense rope as those of a violin. But at the end all resolves him for the good.

A morbid hunger of quartzes, not even pits a beautiful ready woman to offer "his graces", he affirms Roberto he again today taken by those emotions. Nevertheless, beyond you bombard her of ice and of the rocks avoided of a nothing, the cristalliers, that day, they go down downstream over Midnight, with a load of material collecting of over 40 kilos to head. Not without other such mishaps that could make the most ill-omened joy. Few days later, out of the lights and tireless, Franco and Roberto return on the same itinerary to recover other quartzes fumés of an oven, that seemed inexhaustible; instead and luckily everything stays calm, imperturbable. Not even the whistle of a stone. It is sure what the mountain has offered them and in various phases during that happened transformation, a rare scheelite (tungstato of Wolframio and kick), numerous quartzes gwindel or helical which are sought a great deal by the collectors, and besides a big quartz of around 15 kilos, that will be realized surrendering it to the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences with center to Saint Pierre.

1989 was the key of time for the two "Adventurers" of Charvensod, to confirm their sure abilities in to face every type of situation; from this moment the young mountain climber Hans Marguerettaz of Courmayeur unites him to them forming so a working formidable team in the Southern sector of the Mountain Chain. Hans after all, endowed with an endless curriculum of exploit, with routes in solitary exceptional among ypercouloir, supercouloir, connections etc it delays the passage to guide, because of an accident in parapente: with that ephemeral gadget he views hedgetop the granite rocks and, therefore, a gust and here is the slap against a wall. Maddish. But by now it is in resumption and desirous to return in form to begin a collection of mineral serious. On the other hand the material of the big oven, from him overdraft on the Slope Southeast of the Aiguilles Marbrées, has surrendered nearly it to the Regional Museum, increasing it, well he is known (section mineralogy), of that lacking pieces. His President Efisio Noussan perfectly knows it. Other notable champions stay him as for instance a red fluorite ottaedryc centimeter on the quartzes however morions of the Aiguille de Toula. Since the first exits everything was fantastic for that three vagabond, looked more with amazement and suspect in to see them in grungy cableway, gross, tired and folded up on the backpacks, almost always swollen to the limit of the "hangs atomic." In effects, besides the alpine equipment, the cristallier has to bring a whole series of deadly excavation scrap iron I am approached; this already slashes him thin from the departure to the dawn; let's show up I sharpen us when the fate rewards him with the due load of recoveries. After all it is really the physical difficulty that countersigns him from an elegant mountain climber to himself and it exclaims Roby: "beh to the more, a "peones!." Nevertheless, beyond what it is able pensar the people, this country it stays in their indelible mind for obvious motives above quoted; at times the union ago the strength. And here they are down in the territories that it has a preference for Hans, under the Old Shelter Turin to the so says "great couloir of the latrine." Notorious place from the frequent ones "traps" and such to bewilded even the coral caws when it gets up the dust. But here, to the extreme limit of an irreducible snowfield, out they go out of that granite unstable quartzes fumés of rare beauty and men to make beautiful figure in whatever world collection; and besides others mineral like the roses of ematite, the calcite and those of the rare earths: the monazite and the allanite inside the small quartzs that, to individualize them in the clay or in the chlorite, "cazzuti" i it needs to be proper (= a few, as to say, with the square embankments). Then it is the time of the Marbrées, of Giant's Pass, of the Gran Flambeau, of Aiguille de Entrèves and so street up to the Mont Noir du Peutérey (pirite of rare symmetry and quartzes ialins with epitassia of the siderite). You directly enumerates also from the same a descent from the Petit Mont Blanc on the Miage's Glacier and Moraine following the traces of the chamoises in freeclimbing descent (cubic piriti with quartz and titaniti with adularia), for a layout that, alpinely speaking, it is perhaps a first run. Again on the Talèfre (fluoriti pink ottagonal with quartzes fumés; these pieces will also go them to the Museum, being lacking of this mineral wanted to form of pyramid). Still to the Estellette, where Hans lowers Roberto from the tall wall more than 70 meters with a great slab of around 65 kilos on the back and with the fear that, the rope having rather thinned for the excessive load, can be broken. Asking himself, today, how come he suffers from an awful ache of back. But with the satisfaction and the awareness that that boulder will end in donation to the Museum.

In 1990 the équipe is busy under the Monts Rouges de Peutérey (quartzes tabular ialini geminate with cerussite); then to the Pic de the Brenva (quartzes fumés faden and fluorite green ottaedric). Hans, besides the passage to Alpine Guide, he takes the brevet for the Guide of the glider.

Afterwards in 1991 the gang brings him on her "gum" of the Tooth of the Giant where Franco waits for them anxious, since his companions go down on the precipice (Périades); overcome the superior shoulder (East) they move him on the Slope North and, with a crossed brief, they stop on the Edge Northeast to a draught of rope from the peak. Here Hans, with the legs to dangling he works with the crowbar and the hook, in the crystallized hollow (quartzes morions of which an amazing sample with cluster quartzes and of over 40 cms in height). They pack the backpacks and, recovered the loot, they return on their footsteps with a series of double ropes that you owe by hand hand to equip with the void below that it goes down down for 800 meters. They are come down exciting and such to cut the breath in all the senses, cause the load obviously. Then in équipe, they face in different trips one among the wildest places of the Thick one: the Point Yeld, the Glacier of the Périades on the Wall North-northwest of the Jag, where certain "dalles" or plates, are you stick above with the spit. Terrible environment and the very infrequent human passages thin from the times of the Caravan 1900 Zimmer.

Finally the 7 September of 1991, with the group scattered on the Aiguille de Talèfre, Roberto, positioned on a steep suggestive slant frozen of the variation of Luigi Carrel (East Slope), victim of a terrible accident remains but from the result eventful. To avoid a rock that overhangs him in height, falls later immediately and "it owes" to follow down it to rout of neck along a colander for about ten meters arresting himself, in that brief timecourse, thanks to a granite protuberance there correct emergent note; the same one the salute the "pellaccia" (= tough person or the skin). If it will get by, (nearly bared) with the breakup of the malleolus of the left foot and with superficial excoriations in the whole body. Fact this that will serve him from lesson teaching to him to put on him on the crampons, to hold up the ice-axe in hand, to put the helmet in head, even if it cooks the brain ("so much this way!", it says him) and sinking the adventures with a minimum of due safety, knowing the trend (= his foolish) way to face the slopes. But he rather doubts that these essentialities are always applied or you respect from the subject.

Nevertheless in 1992, after having absorbed the fears, it is with Hans to the Hill Savoie (gwindel and quartzes ialini). Going down in équipe from her "brêche" of the Monts Rouges de Triolet, with one crossed to zigzag on the glacier, they stop him on the borders of a rocky islet in integrity of the Point Isabella. Hans begins to lower Franco on the opposite side and, on a prominence to around 30 meters from the underlying glacier, their companion in attended ago an exceptional discovery on an almost vertical and saturated crack of soil. In fact "rampinando, rampinando" (= working by the hooks) with the necessary iron of the work, extracts a champion with two crystalline above pyramidal clear green of which a centimeter. When the three is found on that slender prominence, there for there also admiring the beauty of it, they don't understand us a club (= almost nothing) on the nature or kind of what he has been found again. (* It dealt with a mineral of the rare earths: the Kainosite, only for the Mont Blanc and also contended subsequently by different alpine Museums). More before you are deposited by the helicopter in the depression between the Mont Gréuvettaz and the Aiguille de Leschaux, through the interest of the Noussan. They camp out up there in the attempt to recover some material; same thing besides near the I Camp out of the Brenva. In the meantime Hans, picked also by now him up from the germ/virus of the mineralogy, he has for a long time the itch in to organize in his country the first one "Show Market" of the mineral one and of the fossil, event that the Christmas day develops then him.

In 1993, above a variation of Hans (dihedral of 40 meters beside the Route 1975 Goedecke) of the Crest Southeast of the Talèfre, Franco, Roberto with George Lalle Maurix of St. Pierre, working on an archaic oven, they succeed in extracting you some plates stuffed of adamant quartzes of around 35 kilos the one. The second you will be exposed to "purse" that Hans is to be on the point of to organize for the last week of August beginning so to expose, besides the fruit of their works, ancient books on the theme. Afterwards, Franco with George and Dario Vighetti of Aosta, breaks down another diaphragm on the litoclase of the Estellette, furnishing them note marvelous champions with a faden of 27 centimetres. While on to end of September, Hans and Roberto from the Pass Supérieur de Savoie they effect searches on the Edge South-southwest of the Aiguille Of this route he knows of an only rope in descent; anybody in slope.

And here us you sew together to 1994: it is worthy of note to remember the two days of end July that Roberto passes with Hans to the Dent de Jétoula. Here in fact after a descent of 60 meters on the slope Rochefort, where his companion, in a precedent solitary turn, has found you numerous gwindel morions and nearly all in matrix, Roberto I worry he cannot do to less less than admire not so much the impregnability of the suspended oven in the abyss, how much the inexpressible cleverness and the courage of the friend, gifted besides of extraordinary humility. After an I camp out to the bivouac, the day I approach they lower him flanking the South Crest (Via Gigi Panei), but without result some up to the base of the Glacier of the Mont Fréty. Then, reaching the Shelter of the Pavillon, Hans communicates him the possibility to expose their champions along the layout of the cable-way, having gotten in practice the OK from the Count Titta Gilberti. Fearing nevertheless a sabotage toward the third demonstration of the mineral ones also it scheduled; since he has had etc. a hard contrast with the mayor for matters of political nature on the Valleys Vény and Ferret. "Which, and from of them to little time later, probably angry, he doesn't think of us on twice to begin the practices for the decree that the harvest of the mineral ones will forbid on the territory of the competent Mont Blanc to him with its junta", they explain the two (* * More or less what was already in vigor to Bellecombe and Banchette in the Municipalities of Chatillon and Montjovet and, where it will preventively go obviously to take information). On August 14 Hans is still found with Roberto on the terrace of Point Helbronner: the intention is that to reach the Jag of the Giant: but a snowfall in quota, diverts down them toward the Vierge. Insofar they are lowered along the Northern Spur of the Petit Flambeau finding, almost toward his base and above a small terrace, unusual quartzes ialins of over winds centimers in height with laumontite. Joy is thrilling! As always of however in these cases and they are embraced, unaware that will be unfortunately ineluctably the last, as I complete the appointment of Hans on the mountain. Then happy, they minutely wrap the best pieces, leaving other in sight of a possible return and they go up again along the snowy crest in the shape of scimitar (also this an effected first route will probably result never) reaching shortly the cable-way.

The day later Hans participates in the party of the guides and, 21, having the free flight in the blood, reentering with his glider from the Val of Ayas tragically breaks him on the southern groundstone of the Mont Tantané (La Magdeleine). It was only 30 years old and it is always difficult to make himself a reason for the why or of the for as; it was a true professional to everything field. There is no doubt that for the loss of a similar character the mineralogy in the Valley has heard again of it; but also the small Town of Courmayeur, especially in the tradition of the cristalliers, where well he is known that, the lost time, he has been such.

"Les east cristaux there a étincelles de pureté", did it say the Guide/Crystallier Georges Bettembourg and, always from the same:”E to spend a life in mountain without seeing some crystals?."

The demonstration of the show market, is taken in hand by the friends of Hans: Walter and André Grivel, but unfortunately it will stop existing in 1996.

Meanwhile in 1995, there is a great cultural event stand to the Center St. Bènin of Aosta: "Les Dents de the Earths"; patronized by the Region Valley of Aosta in which it passionately participates the GROUP Mineralogist "Les Amis of Berrio." The same collaborates, subsequently, with the French collector Dr. Eric Asselborn pours his: "Minéralogie de Chamonix."

Afterwards in 1996, Franco, Roberto with the intervention of the geologist Paul Castello, projects their slides to the Jardin de the Ange of Courmayeur "The cristalliers tell him"; space reserved by the friend of Franco Henry Trouchet. In the meantime there are the ferments preparations for the next opening of the "Museum of the Crystals" under the terrace of the glaciers of Point Helbronner, so that you are contacted through Massimo Rey to fill a first showcase to wall. Therefore they return to the Vierge to recover meanwhile the quartzes left in 94, inserting them with others and with some images in search.

For which thing in the month of September of 1997 and, to offer one more service to the clients, the tallest room of the crystals in Europe he is inaugurated devoted to Hans: patronized by the Region and volute with wish and determination from the Society crowning "Funivie" of that idea note of the Count Titta Gilberti, from different years he also missed. Well, the room is divided among the alpine champions of the Museum of Mineralogy in Turin presided by the Geologist George Peyronel and, from those exclusive of the Thick one of the White Mountain of the two cristalliers of Charvensod; these last, beginning from the following year, they also saturate the left voids. On October 3, Roberto with the Guide of Courmayeur (ex crirstallier) Mario Mochet, faces in day the impervious spur of the miners to East of the Hill Infranchissable, and they returns to the Loch Combal with a first photographic documentation both on the layout, both of the inside of the cavern (things never sights first), exploding once and for all the nature of the mineral silvery. Or what, the ganga of the galena was not of fluoride, as he affirms the Geologist Ercole Martina in 1963 on the guide C.A.I. / T.C.I. such to get vast consents in this direction, but simply of blenda (zinc's sulphide). Yet he would have been enough to consult the 1864 Felice Giordano relationship. To see: Seen again Mineralogical Italian,1999, Minaria Helvetica, 1999, Catalog, Crystals and Mineral in Valley of Aosta, 2004 and Catalog, Mineralientage, Monk 2010.

In 1998, to the succession of a disastrous separation of a pillar on the Crest Southeast, the Talèfre offers them other fluorits ottagonal gnawed with the quartzes fumés, well afar nevertheless from the fluorescent redheads of the French sector.

Beginning from 1999, they make a first discovery of relief of stilbiti, quartzes and with other zeoliti as the laumontite, the heulandite and the cabasite on the walls that lean out on the Glacier of the non distant Dôme from the Shelter Gonella and, around the scarps, conspicuous green quartzes of bissolite. Here they find the custodian and friend Alessio Ollier: one among the best guides of the Sixties / Seventies; the same, is remembered besides as to good cristallier, hunter of race together with his brother Attilio, as well as precursor of the alpine helps.

In 2000 on the occasion of the 150° anniversary of the foundation of the Guides of Courmayeur, Franco and Roberto you are invited to their party of August holiday; the our two make a champion available of quartz to make then gift of the same one (besides the beautiful figure) to the President of the Republic Charles Azelio Ciampi in visit in the city of mountain. During the summer Franco together with the young Luca Mochet finds, to the correct place and the correct moment, a hedgetop exponential oven the ice on the Slope Southwest of the Aiguilles Marbrées: difficult to quantify its content of that layer, but certainly the fumés are valuable; besides they find different epidoti and adamant gwindel.

While the 15 October of 2001, Franco passes the most dramatic moment of his life. Everything because he wants to put again hand in his hole to the Marbrées, also knowing that that site has become by now the trench as in it "Battle of the Ardennes." However, Roberto accompanies him and shortly time through the Glacier of the Giant, they are to the base; sees the situation of he tabs shaves defrauded material notable nonchéil, not to return back and despite the conspicuous snowfalls precedents, decide however to frontally climb the slant statement as turn to like. On the ridge in fact, Roberto takes advantage to climb the Point Payot of it. Always untied and each for as if of usual in search, knowing that examination stone for stone. During the descent on the opposite slope, or along the crest that conducts to the Hill of Rochefort, among a tiny fog that went and it came and with a certain wind of north wind to make to shiver an Eskimo, Franco all of a sudden and to few more than a meter from his companion, it tragically falls inside a couloir; fortunately being full of snow (apart the initial violent impact from around 3 meters high on the rocks) it stays in nanny of it rolling down incredibly for about ten and about ten meters. Without however, and it is difficult to believe him for the one who knows the zone, to beat on the neighboring sharp rocks and arresting himself nevertheless in that narrow passage on a providential subsidence sinking himself, while the backpack disappears in the meander of the underlying glacier. The anguish and the insuperable fear of Roberto it finishes in the moment in which it verifies some conditions of the brotherly friend. Also Franco if it gets by certain, but with 9 fractured ribs and with various lesions. Do they have both paid the correct tribute to the Mont Blanc to have raided him in short so so many treasures? And still thanking the gods not to even have been very angry after all.

In 2003, after the countries with the friends of Turin and outskirtses to the Alp of the Frasses in the pomegranates concession hessonite in Val of Susa, Roberto is invited to expose some select pieces of his to the "Fondations Tissières" of Martigny together with the cristalliers of the Valais. In the meantime Franco, as president of the association lavishes him to make himself release from the President of the Junta Roberto Louvin a special permission to export, in collaboration with the Regional Museum, the splendid vesuvianes from the wall of the Banchettes, thing that punctually he happens. After all, on the matter permissions, the President Dino Vierin was already in the past lavished always to disburse the concession, "understanding with foresight that not all are of the criminals he kills stones and although solo good to risvegliar demons and that they exist instead the collectors that, if they are able, the mineral ones if they hold them divulging science and culture and without making too much noise and commerce", they affirm ours. In fact not Roberto and Franco have at all in practice champions exposed by South North of the Dora Baltea Stream: remote possibility to find others prepares of it to so much, but Les Amis of Berrio is known I am a small number and, therefore, politically they count as the two of spites.

Therefore on the Banchettes (I Gnaw), the Guide Aldo Cambiolo of Valpelline puts in safety the unusual yard. It was really with this last that, during the advanced summer, they again bring him on the place of the super spherical and pearly stilbitis and that finally, after varied days of inhuman excavation to over 3000 meters quota, you are gratified however by a knapsack crystallized sunk on herself for more than three meters between the ice and inactive material of that metamorphic rock: they will result, besides the already quoted numerous mineral accessories the most beautiful champions of the whole alpine arc. Also the Museum him to be done and, with the preceded authorities (forest), it grants them the OK of a flight in helicopter to bring downstream the knapsack of the material remainder, understood including a plate of over 70 kilos that it will go to the center of St. Pierre. (* * * Today in phase of restauration and it is hoped that the Mineral ones have the correct center inside the boundaries of the castle and not more in box-office beside the toilets stung. Now, on the future recoveries of these two "foolish", to go over he could graze even the boredom, besides the demands of space tyrant. Insofar he can be continued, so much to understand its movements, with the return of image that you have had in the I continue of their long career.

In effects beginning from 2004, there will be the second exposure to Martigny for Roberto. Dopodiché always in June as GROUP Mineralogico, there will be the exposure to the Archaeological Museum of Roncas Piazza of Aosta "Crystals and Mineral in the Valley of Aosta"; it is to underline as in primis he must be thanked for the event the Alderman to the Culture Teresa Charles. On August 21, to commemorate the decennial one some disappearance of their companion Hans there will be a projection of slides to the Jardin de the Hange (the third one). While for the last visit of the Pontiff Pope Wojtyla to Introd, them for a crystal of fortress is asked (symbol of purity and the inaccessibility of the mountains), that will be given then to Him Donato (but has he been rendered explicit to the same one the origin? At least to have a little Recommendation for the Heaven!).

In 2005, Franco is interviewed by the Guides Ervé Barmasse and Pietro Giglio, for the transmission "Here Mountains" (RAI 3 Region).

During the third exposure to Martigny, with thematic the Piercing of the Sempione, also Franco grabs the importance of it and participates you favoring the Swiss collector Alexander Saltzman.

In 2006, you are again contacted by the Region, to insert to the dawning Museum of the Forteress of Bard, a showcase of mineral inserting besides a notable drusa of quartzes fumés of the Marbrées in the space devoted to the great Jhon Ruskin. Well the first ones of March, on the bases of the exposure to the Archaeological Museum where the initiative had an international success, Franco and Roberto you are called to expose their best pieces of the Southern sector of the Thick one to the "Mineral Show" of Bologna, being the thematic one the Mount Blanc. The season is finally closed with the invitation from the "Club de Minéralogie" of Chamonix, to the inauguration of their magnificent Museum.

In 2007, scheduled there is another I invite to the party of the Guides of Courmayeur, and this to have inserted, together to other cristalliers, mineral and, above all, a quartz ialin of Hans of 6 kilos with origin from the Beak in the Aquila (the only piece that if nothing else the widow Joanne Grey had surrendered for the Point Helbronner) besides of his photos, immortalized in search. Intelligent exposure however organized by Luciano Maregliati, Pierino Rey and Luca Mochet.

To the first ones of August of 2009, for the 42° "Exposition Bourse internationalle Chamonix Mont-Blanc" they are craftsmen in two special showcases with the collections of the best pieces, thankful for their assiduous presence during the reunion of end year to feel the "nouvelles" and her "cotisations", by now more twenty-year but, above all, to honor and to make to know the mineral ones some opposite slope, snobbed nearly always.

In the autumn of 2010, after the visit to Plan Félinaz of the organizer of the "international Exchange" of Monk the sig. Keilmann and of the journalist altoatesino M. Wachtler, that beautiful satisfaction comes very attended, that is to expose their works together with the best cristalliers of the three states of the Thick one of the White Mountain. What to say of a demonstration with over 200.000 visitors? Crowned by that success, where on the preceding site of Roberto there is amazing an upsurge of passages (over 275.000 and shortly time!) .

In 2011, always through Region, there is the application of loan of two big free quartzes that, placed side by side Grivel to the ice-axes, they will reach Rome for the 150° Anniversary of the unity of Italy and that, you hear, you hear!, it seems has reached even then Washington.

For the inauguration in the Regional Library, Espace "Porta Documana" of Chatrian (the goldsmith's art in in the Valley of Aosta), besides the native gold of the mine of Brusson, they prepare different cubes with manifold crystals of quartz in the most varied forms and colors.

Insofar the epilogue conducts them to the Point Helbronner where, for the jobs of dismantlement for the new plant, you are helped with due joy by the personnel to empty the showcases, you get off and you prepare in a small room made by Roberto Francesconi to the Pavillon of the Mont-Fréty available; here the mineral ones of Roberto and Franco, later around 14 years where incalculable he has been the number of visitors, statements will stay waiting for still a new position with the alive hope of being situated in a less narrow space. This is how much ...