With the start of 2026, the Club launches a new series of meetings dedicated to sports medicine applied to mountaineering, physiology, and injury prevention.
The first event will feature Dr. Massimo Massarini, sports medicine physician and founder of Vitalia Torino, whose solid experience ranges from sailing to high-altitude mountaineering and clinical practice. His lecture, entitled “What Can We Learn from Great Mountaineers? My Experience as a Sports Medicine Doctor with the Greats of the Mountains,” will offer an overview of physiological adaptations, training strategies, effort management at altitude, and injury prevention.
The event will take place at CAI UGET, Corso Francia 192, on Thursday, January 29, 2026, at 8:45 PM.

Following this, the Club will host an evening dedicated to “Nutrition in the Mountains: Fundamentals for Well-being and Performance,” led by Dr. Rossella Tonso, nutrition biologist and ski-mountaineering instructor. The talk will address the principles of sports nutrition applied to mountain activities, with particular attention to nutritional timing, strategies to maintain energy and mental clarity, and the differences between low- and high-altitude activities.
The goal is to provide practical tools to improve well-being, safety, and performance during both winter and summer outings.
This event will take place on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at 8:45 PM, again at CAI UGET.

Calendars for year 2026 are available at the bookshop La Montagna (Via sacchi 28 bis 10128 Torino, phone +39​​0115620024, mail info@librerialamontagna.it): https://librerialamontagna.it/calendari/13463-calendario-2026-club-4000.html

Price:

20.00 € full price

18.00 € for CAI members

15.00 € for Club 4000 members

Shipping is also possible contacting the Libreria La Montagna, the cost will depend on the quantity and on the international shipping, to be checked with the bookshop.

And here we are at the third edition of the photo contest, as always free and open to everyone!
The rules are simple: we ask you to send ONE photo via email to concorso@club4000.club, along with your last name/first name, title of the photo, and the 4000-meter peak it refers to.
The subject must be landscapes or details of the mountains that are part of the official 4000-meter peaks of the Alps – no selfies or group photos.

Starting in September, the selection phase will begin, and you’ll be able to vote for your favorite photos by giving a like on our Facebook group.

At the end of the contest, the top 3 photos will be awarded as follows:

1st place: Club 4000 Calendar 2026
2nd place: Club 4000 Bandana
3rd place: Club 4000 Fabric Patch
The winners will be invited to the Club 4000 assembly, which will be held in Turin on November 22, 2025.

You have until August 31 to submit your photo!
A maximum of 60 photos will be admitted to the contest. If more than 60 photos are received by the deadline, a pre-selection will be carried out to choose the ones that will officially enter the contest.

The selection process will start on 09/09/25. Photos will be published every Tuesday, and voting will be open until Friday at 1:00 PM.
Later on Friday, a list of the photos that passed the selection round will be published.

In the first 3 weeks, 20 photos will be posted per week, and the top 10 of each batch will be selected.
In the next 3 weeks, 10 photos per week will be posted, and 4 will be selected each time.
The remaining 12 photos will be published in groups of 6 over the following 2 weeks, and 3 from each group will be selected.
The final week will feature the grand finale with the 6 finalist photos in the running.