It is 2018 and Aurelio gives management of the Capanna di Punta Penia to Carlo. The shelter, 4 sheet metal walls against the wind, rests on the main peak of the Marmolada, at an altitude of 3343. Every year Carlo spends 100 days there in the warmer months offering a meal and a bed to the summit's customers. Luca, from the base of the glacier, observes the mountaineers who every day undertake the normal route from Pian dei Fiacconi to the summit. The roped parties proceed slowly for 700 meters of altitude difference through the thick layer of ice, cross the via ferrata and, having crossed the summit ridge, arrive at the summit cross. The first shelter on the Regina dates back to 1875, at an altitude of 3100m. Today, 147 years later, the shelter is unused due to the retreat of the glaciers and is located at a height of 80 meters from the current level of the glacier, reachable only by lowering from above. June 2022 was a particularly hot month, the freezing point left 3000 meters behind, accelerating the melting of the snow. I traveled with my father the 700 meters of difference in altitude that lead from Pian dei Fiacconi to the summit, taking my analogue camera with me. I shot 2 rolls of film, chatting first with Luca who made fun of me for having unsuitable shoes for the climb and then with Carlo while we ate a freshly baked tart from his summit kitchen. Sitting on the ice-covered bench outside the refuge, I observed how a man changes, living up there, how the eternity of the rock on which he sleeps for 3 months a year expands and slows down his biorhythms, how he reduces usefulness to essential and how assimilate the summit ecosystem until become part of it. I understood how precious these memories are and how these places are destined to no longer be practicable and certainly different from how I knew them. I began a journey in search of shelter’s owners to tell the story of those who chose to live their lives 1000 meters higher than everyone else. The first part of this project was carried out in Marmolada (between the provinces of Trento and Belluno) in June 2022 and is part of an ongoing project. It was made entirely with an analog Canon AE1 and Kodak 160 film film.