A life spent among the highest peaks in the world. A boundless passion for the mountains and mountaineering. A dream, that of climbing the 14 highest mountains on Earth, without using oxygen tanks, which became reality at the end of July 2024 on the summit of Gasherbrum I. His last eight-thousander. His first words “Game over, game over”.
Marco Camandona thus completes “his journey”, not a challenge, a journey that lasted 26 years. For this he will be awarded the Panathlon Award 2024 “Renato Godio”.
The presentation of the award is scheduled Friday 25 October at 6.30 pm in the BCCV conference room in Aosta. The ceremony will be public and dedicated to the media.
Marco Camandonaborn in 1970, internationally renowned mountaineer, mountain guide and alpine ski instructor, has been a federal coach and technical director, for over 20 years, of one of the largest sporting events in the Aosta Valley, the “Millet Tour du Rutor Extrême”, an international ski competition ski mountaineering.
Today Camandona is among the 20 mountaineers in the world to have completed the ascent of the 14 eight-thousanders without the use of oxygen cylinders. A journey that began in 1996 and ended at the end of July 2024 on the eleventh mountain on Earth, in Pakistan. A few days earlier, his thirteenth eight-thousander, the Gasherbrum II. On both occasions Marco was accompanied by his brother-in-law Dante Luboz while his friend was waiting for him at the base camp Abel White.
The Panathlon Award is awarded every year to an athlete or club that has distinguished itself not only at a competitive level, but also in respecting the healthiest ideals of sport and moral loyalty and is named in memory of Renato Godio, sports journalist of the Rai regional headquarters of the Aosta Valley and former President of the Panathlon club.
In recent years the following have won the prestigious award: Franco Collé (2023) Martine Michieletto (2022), Eleonora Marchiando (2021), Federica Brignone (2020), Gaia Tormena (2019); Francesca Canepa (2018); Hervé Barmasse (2017); Federico Pellegrino (2016) e Sergio Pellissier (2015).
