|
Marco Caboi, from
Nuoro, one of the Sardinian climbers
who recently reached the Olympus of
8a with grit and resolution… Unmistakable
for his thick head of hair, but mainly
for his mass of muscles, which can
maybe inspire fear, Marco is actually
a calm and modest boy, who has correctly
faced climbing, interpreting it as
a challenge in order to improve his
weak points and thus achieve goals
unthinkable at first sight...
A record
?
Mozart’s Requiem
A movie ?
The wind and the lion
And a writer
?
Luis Sepulveda
When did
you discover climbing ?
In Rome, during my studies approx.
10 years ago.
And which
was the spark which started this passion
?
The fact that I was not able to climb
well, unfortunately the situation
has not changed.
Is there
a cliff of your dreams ?
I hope so.
And the cliff
where you usually go ?
The overhangs in Cala Fuili ...a nightmare.
A goal ?
Hold on decently!!!
A myth in
climbing ?
My friend Domenico.
How important
is friendship in climbing ?
I think climbing with
friends is pleasant, but I would also
climb with enemies, I’m only sorry
that both categories seem to climb
better than me.
Do you feel
like risking more than in your everyday
life ?
No.
How important
is it for you to feel physically fit
?
It’s necessary if you want to climb
at high levels and you do not have
a natural tendency for it.
If you stopped
climbing you would…
go fishing
What do you
love most in Sardinia ?
The silence, the sea and the hardness.
And what
do you hate ?
The fact that some of us tend to waste
all this, but this problem concerns
some Sardinians, not Sardinia.
Would you like to live and climb somewhere
else ?
I would like to climb elsewhere, but
I wouldn’t know how to live anywhere
else.
In
your opinion, Sardinian climbers are:
as all others, self-centred.
Do you like
the current concept of climbing ?
I have never liked the fact that some
don’t speak well of other people’s
opinions in order to state their own.
And what about competitions ?
I find they are fun and
help to solve small controversies.
Who goes up wins, who goes down looses,
simple and effective.
In the end,
what is climbing for you ?
I don’t know, I climb to discover
it.
|
