Adventure Awards & Arco Rock Star 2018

A weekend full of initiatives and fun has just ended in Arco di Trento, the Adventure Awards Days have been a great success and have been reconfirmed as the international festival of adventure and exploration. Many events in the program that saw the participation of many fans of the outdoor world. From organized tours with trail running experts to fantastic guided bike tours, from yoga sessions to eco-sustainability workshops with the guys of Selva Urbana, from photographic trekking to The Clean Approach exhibition. The ADD have distinguished themselves above all for the guests of this year, who have seen attend characters like Simone Moro, Emilio Previtali, Jeremy Collins, Nico Favresse and many others, who have given us great emotions.

One of the winning images of John Thornton for the Arco Rock Star.

Coinciding with the event, the third edition of the Arco Rock Star, the international climbing photography contest, also took off. Nine teams of professional photographers from five European countries competed for two days in search of the perfect shot. The level reached by the different teams was really high and the jury had to choose with great difficulty. The winner, John Thornton, a British photographer, was given a € 1,500 check and a prize in material from Climbing Technology, La Sportiva and F-Stop Gear. Second place for Giovanni Danieli and third place for Matteo Mocellin. The La Sportiva Anniversary award, which this year will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the company’s birth, and which wants to remember the climbing of the past in the gestures, colors and atmospheres, has been won by the photographer Matteo Pavana. This year obviously the competition was not only for professionals, but also for photography lovers who were able to participate in the Open category, won for the second consecutive year by Graziano Galvagni.

Below some winners shots!