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International Alpine Solidarity Award
Pinzolo
53rd edition - 21 september 2024
PROGRAM 53RD EDITION – PINZOLO SEPTEMBER 2024
FRIDAY 20.09
9.30 am Paladolomiti Pinzolo
Meeting of the award-winning Fausto De Stefani with the students of the Val Rendena Comprehensive Institute
9.15 pm Paladolomiti Pinzolo
Evening open to the public, in collaboration with the SAT of Pinzolo.
Montagna è Solidarietà: Eva Lavinia Maffei, Marco Collini and Fausto De Stefani remember Clemente Maffei Guerét one hundred years after his birth.
… In the atrium of the Paladolomiti, on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st, the photographic exhibition on the Alpine guide Clemente Maffei Gueret is open to remember three special moments: the birth of the Pinzolo Alpine Rescue, the Rampagaroi school and the legendary expedition to Tierra del Fuego with the conquest of Monte Sarmiento.
SATURDAY 21.09
11.00 Piazzale San Giacomo
Gathering of guests, buffet with tasting of typical products.
12.00 Paladolomiti Pinzolo
Award ceremony of the 53rd Targa d’Argento to Fausto De Stefani “a dreamer, an exceptional mountaineer who transformed his great passion for the mountains and their creatures into a reason for living, into an extraordinary commitment to human solidarity, concrete and far-sighted, and respect for an increasingly fragile environment involving the new generations”.
On this occasion, the Gold Medals of Memory will be awarded to the families of the young financiers Lorenzo Paroni and Giulio Alberto Pacchione, who died tragically during a training activity in the Friulian mountains on 16 August 2023.
Recognition to the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps on the occasion of the 70th anniversary.
With the participation of the Coro Presanella di Pinzolo.
1.00 pm Honorary Lunch (by invitation)
50 years of history, the video
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How the International alpine Solidarity Silver Plaque was founded
The International Alpine Solidarity Silver Plaque Award was born in Pinzolo in 1972 from an idea of Cavalier Angiolino Binelli. From his stubborn determination and intuition to make and develop . this Award; he wanted it to be a way to remember the twenty years of the foundation of the first Alpine Rescue Station, of which he was the president, established in Italy on May 22, 1952 in the Val Rendena town of Pinzolo. With this initiative, he intended to give merit and pay tribute to all those nameless and faceless volunteers who generously spend themselves often at the risk of their lives, to go where help is needed.
Since then, the awarding of the prestigious award has become a regular appointment for the Pinzolo community. It is held every year in September, usually on the third Saturday of the month, in the Town Hall, in the council hall of the Municipality, with a suggestive ceremony, very much attended and deeply felt. There are many friends, civil, military and religious authorities, the mountain people, the winners of previous years, Italian and foreign delegations, the people of the country, all united in a warm fraternal embrace.
A special Statute regulates its attribution, with a vision that goes far beyond the scope of those who have dedicated so much of their life to Alpine Rescue, to extend to all those who have distinguished themselves in helping people in difficulty in the mountains, to civilians and soldiers who have worked in risky rescue operations, to alpine guides, to doctors and service managers, firefighters, technicians, even to journalists engaged in witnessing the culture and the correct way of approaching the alpine environment.
The Prizewinner
The choice of the winner is made by the Executive Committee chaired by Cavalier Angiolino Binelli. The members examine all the reports received (many from our country, but several also from Europe and even from the Americas and Asia), carefully evaluate, with seriousness and in full conscience, the candidacies and the relative curricula, sometimes ask for further information. , and then make the choice. That is always painful, because the deserving ones would be many and the Award goes to only one.
For its high moral and civil significance and the values it promoted, the Award enjoys the High Patronage of the President of the Republic and a special blessing from the Pope.
Several times the Committee had received painful, moving reports of people who had lost their lives during rescue operations. So it was decided to commemorate them too by awarding a Gold Medal to the Memory to be given to their family members during the ceremony.
On the sidelines of the delivery ceremony, exhibitions, meetings with personalities, theme nights, concerts of alpine choirs and collateral initiatives of various kinds are organized, to which must be added the fixed appointment with the prizewinning by the students of the Comprehensive Institute of Val Rendena for an interesting and instructive moment of comparison and learning.
Year after year the Award has grown, becoming one of the most important and significant events in the Val Rendena, with awards that have crossed national borders to reach the Americas, go to China and reach Siberia….
The Committee of the International Solidarity Award
ANGIOLINO BINELLI President
GIUSEPPE CIAGHI Vice President
FABRIZIA CAOLA General Secretary
CARMELO GENETIN Councilor
LUCIANO IMPERADORI Councilor
DINO LEONESI Councilor
VALTER VIDI Councilor
PAOLO QUERIO Councilor
GIAMPAOLO BOSCARIOL Special Rapresentative of Prize in Rome
The Silver Plaque International Alpine Solidarity Award is twinned with the Marcello Meroni Award
The International Alpine Solidarity Award is made possible thanks to the contribution of:
Comune di Pinzolo
Comuni della Val Rendena
Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Regione Trentino Alto Adige
Comunità delle Giudicarie
Azienda per il turismo Madonna di Campiglio
LA CASSA RURALE Adamello Giudicarie Valsabbia Paganella
Famiglia Cooperativa Pinzolo
Sponsor locali