Marco Confortola and Ferrino together for Kangchenjunga and Nanga Parbat.

Published by Mountainblog on 04/04/2022.

Marco Confortola is a mountaineer, mountain guide and mountain rescue technician from Valtellina who needs no introduction. Known as “The eight-thousanders hunter”, Marco lives the mountains at 360 degrees and has been part of the Ferrino team for 18 years.

For him, last friday has been a great day because he was leaving for Nepal where he will try to climb Kangchenjunga (third highest mountain on Earth – 8586m high), then he will move to Pakistan to climb Nanga Parbat (8125m – the ninth highest peak on the planet).

Do you want to know more? 🎥Take a look at the full video:

Come on Marco, we’re with you!

INFO: Ferrino

Backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, clothes and equipment: Ferrino is one of the oldest Italian outdoor company equipped with a wide section of products. Passion, challenge and fantasy are the elements that brings Ferrino to innovate, creating always new technologies, able to resist to any weather condition. All the products are developed with the cooperation of professionals of the sector, athletes and explorers, which Ferrino supports in their personal adventures, designing in that way incredible items which comply to real and specific needs. The product quality, handled by the brand ambassadors during the design, it’s further tested by clients, at the HighLab camps where they have the possibility to try for free tents, sleeping bags and other equipments, experiencing the emotion of sleeping in high altitude, becoming a tester for a night. Today Ferrino, almost 150 after its foundation, it’s spread in approximately 40 countries all over the world and it’s a reference for mountaineers, hikers, explorers, trail runners and outdoor enthusiasts. Founded in Turin in 1870, today Ferrino has around 60 employed and it’s still managed by the same Ferrino’s family – and Rabajoli. The possibility to cooperate with important people of world of the sport in the Alps has given Ferrino the chance to create high tech products, always maintaining that artisan touch and Italian style which makes each product a jewel to be proud of, both for the company and the user.

www.ferrino.com