ABOUT
Skiing as an escape and as art, as a synthesis of the aesthetics of the mountain. With these words we could summarize the salient features of Enrico Mosetti, “il Mose”.
Those born on the Gorizia shores of the Isonzo carry the Julian Alps in their blood and soul. It is here that Enrico, already as a child, puts on skis for the first time and understands that this will not only be a passion, but a great love story that continues and evolves, from the great classics towards the irresistible call of the steep. At just 17 years old, like a romantic getaway, he descends the Huda Palica, in the Julian Alps, alone: the longest and perhaps most elegant and wild gully of these mountains. Since then the research continues, on increasingly extreme lines, but linked by a common thread. The aesthetics of the line, the ethics of the execution. In a certain sense, he takes up the legacy of the great Mauro Rumez, returning to ski with his boards the great and feared descent lines of the Julian Alps such as the very narrow “Comici” gully at Forca Berdo and the super exposed north face of the Granda Nabois, in the unmissable conditions of 2016 or the West of Canin. But if the Julian Alps are the home of Mose, research always leads him to look with curiosity at the Alps and beyond. So, after having repeated many of the great classics of steep skiing in the Central and Western Alps, in 2015 he sets off alone, with minimal baggage, but very clear ideas. Skiing the great peaks of the Cordillera Blanca. In one month he brings home a double of prestigious descents, long sought after: Artesonraju, S/E face, Tocclaraju, West face which project him into the narrow circle of steep professionals.
In 2016 he was in Pakistan to try to ski Laila peak, an attempt stopped about a hundred meters from the top and marred by the loss of Leonardo Comelli, a great friend and climbing partner, during the descent. Again in 2017 he was in Georgia and, in the southern spring, in New Zealand for the first descent of the Caroline face at Aoraki/mount Cook.
But Mose is not just steep and skiing. Alpine Guide since 2017, he is active in every season and on every terrain: rock and ice, cliff and bike, in the mountains of his home and beyond. Because he is not only an insatiable hunter of white lines, but also of new adventure terrains on rock, both in summer and winter. The repetitions of the great classic climbing routes in the Julian Alps, Carnic Alps and Dolomites alternate with the bolting of new cliffs in Istria and Bosnia, always in search of unusual places and exciting experiences, together with the gang of companions on trips and ropes, inspired by an alpinism that is always wandering and dreaming.
