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A PASSION FOR LIFE.
By TelemarkSnowEvents’s team
Interski is among the most important meetings for
the worldwide ski instructors and it is refered to as
the Olympic games for teaching ski. In the edition
of 1983, in Sesto Pusteria (Italy), Paul Parker introduced
and successfully demonstrated the telemark
technique on behalf of the American Ski School.
Some Italian professional skiers remained fascinated by the
proposition and decided to explore the technique and work
on it. Among them, Paul Parker’s friend, professor and professional
skier Giorgio Daidola, became a supporter of the
telemark technique, which well suits his passion for travelling
the world and for fully experiencing ski mountaineering.
Where in the 90’s, a friend of his and great mountain enthusiast
decided to try the telemark experience. This sport soon
became his life passion and as time passes he felt the need to
involve all his friends in it and started organizing meetings
during the winter weekends.
Mariano Valcanover, class of 1954, well-known promoter of
social and sport events, is the founder of Lagorai Telemark
Club, which represents the seed for the future and great challenges
to improve telemark diffusion in Italy and abroad as
and that can be seen as the precursor of TSE
In fact, in 2005, he decided to accept a new challenge: he and
some other enthusiasts started TSE with the aim of actively
coordinating and organizing telemark events across the Italian
ski resorts and of proposing the technical basis with the
help of some professional and driven telemark skiers for free.
The success arrives soon and the Italian telemark crew grows
more and more every year after year.
Mariano’s passion for telemark influences a huge amount of
beginners and experts and telemark finally finds his place
among winter sports Italian parade. For instance, Telemark
Snow Events opening in Val Senales will be the starting point
of the winter season for ten years. Another example is the
participation in Modena Skipass with the purpose of discussing
about telemark development possibilities and evenly
spreading about 20 events between northern and southern
Italy. For some years, the collaboration with some driven
journalists and writers has led to the publishing and diffusion
of a dedicated magazine “TelemarkMAG” to collect telemark
stories and experiences.
The collaboration between TSE and professional skiers allowed
to improve the quality of the teaching approach by
developing a short sequence of exercises for telemark beginners.
Moreover, Mariano and the TSE team were active in the
organization of InterTELE, an international meeting of professional
telemarkers, with the aim of discussing about the
development of the teaching approach.
So, at the beginning of May 2017 InterTELE World meeting
took place in Breuil-Cervinia and Mariano is one of the leading
actor organizing workshops and events. The meeting was
a success and both Mariano and the other people involved
showed enthusiasm and the willingness to gather again soon.
Unfortunately, the story takes an unexpected turn. On May
12st, social media reports something that has left everybody
shocked and incredulous: Mariano is gone. During the night
our beloved friend has decided to take a break, a timeless
rest. His friends have been standying by the family, but the
void he left will not be easy to fill. His passion and his ideas
have been strong, challenging and often provocative, but always
in positive prospection. He taught us the beauty of telemark
and infused his enthusiasm towards it to everybody
who knew him. He mostly taught us how to live and love the
mountains and last, but not least, to free the heel.
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