The North Face athlete Simone Moro gave a talk today at Portland North Face store. The celebrated Italian alpinist is renowned for his daring winter ascents. He spoke to his experiences in the mountains, discuss his new book "The Call of the Ice: Climbing 8000m Peaks in Winter", and presented a couple of video clips and a screening of Cory Richards' film "COLD". Over Q&A, he talked about his safety philosophy (he is 47 years old), and his helicopter school project in San Diego (about to start), to train Nepalese for alpine landing and rescue. Very noble and useful idea. He already has a commercial pilot license, and his brother's family has moved here. Why US, instead of his homeland? He said getting a commercial pilot license costs half in US than in Europe, and it takes less time. Why CA, especially at an expensive city at sea level? I don't know.
