An interrupted ascent is a photo and video reportage on the abandoned motel at Campo Nevada, in the Apennines of L'Aquila, reachable only by ski mountaineering. The project reconstructs the history of the structure, completed in 1969 during the mountain tourism boom and abandoned within a few years due to the lack of water supply and access roads blocked by snow. Through images of the ruin and the testimony of Carlo Console, a former forest ranger who has known the area all his life, it examines the problems tied to new and by now old mountain structures. The work combines mountain access with the documentation of an urban planning failure: an Alpine model transplanted onto a territory that could not support it, now slowly being reclaimed by nature. A case study of what happens when a project ignores the limits of the territory on which it is built.