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Saturday evening Fabio and I received the Italy Mountain prize in Bergamo during the Orobie 2009 Festival Film, for our crossing in Egypt. Even if our environment was not the mountains, but rather the desert, the director wanted to reward us for having engaged in pushing our limit and doing a difficult test that cost to both of us much work and so much toil. Fabio was excited but even more so was Oriana, his wife, who naturally did not want to miss the gala evening. Even Oscar was with us, although he is still being supported by the crutches, because of the intervention of his knee a few weeks ago. As a former mountain climber he did not want to miss the showing of mountain films that were being rewarded and the numerous photographs shown to us.