STEINUK 2400 is a high-altitude trail landmark for the South Tyrolean Alps. The high-impact industry based on a limited but unique resource such as marble suggests that every grain counts. The desire was to give a second life to small scraps, abandoned within the Lasa quarry, and, by doing so, reverse the centuries-old trend of bringing marble down to the valley to be further processed, and thus go in the opposite direction: to the mountain peaks where marble is born and belongs. At 2400 metres above sea level, where bad weather and hostile environments prevail, Cairns have for thousands of years guided adventurers to the highest peaks, an archaic gesture of stacking one stone on top of another, which, however, presents problems of poor visibility due to the perfect camouflage with the landscape or collapses due to extreme phenomena, creating orientation problems for hikers, both experienced and not. Hence the wish to create a safe reference point with a primordial and playful interface, exploiting the unique and natural characteristics of visibility and resistance of Lasa marble. Nothing is wasted, everything is transformed, through the reuse of these scraps another age-old trend has been reversed. Marble known as a resource to be sculpted and from which material is removed to obtain a result, such as a statue, in this case waste becomes the protagonist in composing a form, a sculpture, a sign, a message to be conveyed.

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