Here we are at the fourth edition of the photo contest, as always free and open to everyone!

The rules are simple: we ask you to send just ONE photo by email to concorso@club4000.club, accompanied by your first and last name, the title of the photo, and the 4000-meter peak it refers to. The subject must be panoramas or details of mountains that are part of the official 4000ers of the Alps — no selfies or group photos.

Starting in September, the selection process will begin, and you'll be able to vote for your favorite photos by liking them on our Facebook group.

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

• 1st place: Club 4000 2027 calendar
• 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 Bergamo on November 21, 2026.

You have until August 31st to send in your photo!

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 determine which shots are admitted to the contest.

The selection process will start on September 1, 2026, and photos will be published every Tuesday, with voting open until Friday at 1:00 PM. At that point, the list of photos that made it through that round of selection will be published the same day.

In the first 3 weeks, 20 photos will be published each week, and the top 10 from each will be selected.

In the following 3 weeks, 10 photos will be published each week, and 4 will be selected.

The remaining 12 photos still in the running will be published in groups of 6 over the next 2 weeks, with 3 selected each week from those groups.

In the final week, the finals will take place, featuring the publication of the 6 finalist photos in the contest.

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.