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Marco Albino Ferrari
Marco Albino Ferrari (Milan, 1965) is an Italian journalist and writer. Director of ALP for much of the 1990s, in 2001 he founded the magazine Meridiani Montagne, acting as editor for fifteen years. With the book Mia sconosciuta (Ponte alle Grazie, 2020) he won the ITAS Mountain Books Award and was nominated for the Strega Prize. Editorial director and head of CAI's cultural activities until 2023, he continues to deal with issues related to the world of the mountains and climate change, writing for various newspapers.
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Alex Bellini
Alex Bellini (Aprica, 1978) è un esploratore italiano. A partire dai primi anni Duemila inizia a muoversi fra le terre più inesplorate del pianeta: dalla Marathon des Sables nel Sahara ai 2.000 chilometri percorsi in slitta attraverso l’Alaska, passando per la traversata a remi dell’Atlantico. Speaker e conferenziere, nei suoi ultimi progetti – 10 Rivers 1 Ocean e Eyes on Ice – ha voluto unire l’empiricità dell’esplorazione alla forza di una testimonianza diretta che diventa divulgazione.
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Mauro Corona
Mauro Corona (Baselga di Pinè, 1950) is an Italian writer, mountaineer and sculptor. The author of some forty books, many of them bestsellers, in recent years he has become known to the general public above all in his latter-day role as TV commentator. He has opened over 300 climbing routes in the Dolomites, recounting the contradictions and peculiarities of the relationship between man and nature in his books, with the disarming sincerity and openness that distinguishes him.
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Matteo de Zaiacomo
Matteo De Zaiacomo (Sondrio, 1993) is an Italian mountaineer. He started climbing at a very young age, joining the prestigious Ragni di Lecco group - of which he is now president - in 2014, and Club Alpino Accademico Italiano in 2019. He has taken part in expeditions and ascents in Kyrgyzstan, Yosemite and Greenland, also opening new routes on big walls in the Himalayas and above all in Patagonia.
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Marco Paolini
Marco Paolini (Belluno, 1956) is an Italian actor, author and director. Focusing on a repertoire belonging to so-called “social theatre”, he has been involved in drama since the 1970s, cultivating an especially strong bond with his own region, Veneto. In his latest work, Mar de Molada, he aims to recount the geographical area from the sea to the mountains, linked by the course of the River Piave.
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Wu Ming 1
Wu Ming 1 is the pseudonym of Roberto Bui (Ostellato, 1970). He is an Italian writer and translator, member of the Wu Ming collective, which focuses on artistic, cultural and political projects, as well as workshops, publishing initiatives and research groups. He has taught cultural journalism at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and writes for the magazine Internazionale.
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Hervé Barmasse
Hervé Barmasse (Aosta, 1977) is an Italian mountaineer and communicator from a family with four generations of mountain guides. As well as being a guide himself, his name is linked to first ascents all over the world, often tackled solo - as in 2017, when in just 13 hours he reached the peak of Shisha Pangma in Tibet, over eight thousand metres high. Barmasse is also a writer and director of mountain films. His books include La montagna dentro (Edizioni Laterza, 2015) and Cervino. La montagna leggendaria (Mondadori Electa, 2021).
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Giovanni Storti
Giovanni Storti (Milano, 1957) un comico, attore, sceneggiatore e regista italiano. Membro del noto trio comico Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo, dal 2008 si appassiona al mondo del trail running correndo in tutto il mondo fra montagne, pianure e deserti. Dal 2021 ha iniziato ad occuparsi di tematiche legate alla tutela di ambiente, piante e animali, attraverso un notevole lavoro di divulgazione attraverso i suoi profili social.
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Margherita Granbassi
Margherita Granbassi (Trieste, 1979) is a former Italian fencer. Women’s foil world champion in 2006 and winner of two bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, she embarked on a successful career as a television presenter and journalist after retiring. Since 2022, she has hosted episodes of Linea Verde Sentieri on Rai 1 and Sunday episodes of Linea Verde.
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Matteo della Bordella
Matteo Della Bordella (Varese, 1984) is an Italian mountaineer. He started to go mountaineering at the age of 12, climbing several classic routes in the Alps roped to his father Fabio. In 2006 he joined the Ragni di Lecco and in 2008 he was admitted to Club Alpino Accademico Italiano. In the last few years, he has opened routes in the mountains and on vertical rockfaces situated in remote and wild places around the planet, always reaching them “by fair means” – with mountaineering skis, or by kayak from the sea. In 2020 he was a member of the International Jury at Trento Film Festival and in 2023, together with CAI, he devised the successful Eagle Team project.
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Maurizio Giordani
Maurizio Giordani (Rovereto, 1959) is an Italian mountaineer who has been climbing since he was twenty, gaining experience that has led him to open hundreds of new routes, as well as to make many first winter and solo ascents, both on rock and ice. A mountain guide since 1989, he has participated in over 50 expeditions all over the world, but his favourite terrain remains Patagonia and the Dolomites – in particular Marmolada, where he made the first solo winter ascent of the Attraverso il Pesce route and the first free solo ascent of the Tempi Moderni route.
Guest eventsMaurizio Zanolla (Manolo)
Maurizio “Manolo” Zanolla (Feltre, 1958) is an Italian climber and mountaineer. Nicknamed Il Mago (the wizard), he began climbing at the age of 17 and is considered to be one of the pioneers of free climbing in Italy, as well as one of the most well-known faces in the sport. The first Italian to climb a route classified as grade 8b (L’Ultimo Movimento on Totoga in the Pale di San Martino mountains), he has also free soloed up to grade 8a. In 2009, at the age of 51, he developed the Eternit route, grade 9a, on the Baule crag (Vette Feltrine range), which according to him opens up a new dimension for vertical slab climbing.
Guest eventsFederica Mingolla
Federica Mingolla (Turin, 1994) is an Italian mountaineer. At the age of 14, she started climbing indoors and took part in her first competitions, achieving excellent results. In 2013 she competed in the Women's World Championships, but over time her passion for the mountains increasingly pushed her towards the outdoors, leading her to move away from the world of competitive climbing. In 2016, she made the first female one-day ascent of the Attraverso il Pesce route on Marmolada and she has been a mountain guide since 2023. Last summer, she took part in the K2-70 expedition organised by CAI.
Guest eventsMatteo Righetto
Matteo Righetto (Padua, 1972) is an Italian writer. A lecturer in literature and EASLCE researcher, he has worked for the University of Padua, holding a series of seminars entitled Landscape Writing and Literature. He is the author of La pelle dell'orso (TEA, 1990), on which the film of the same name with Marco Paolini was based. Thanks to L'anima della frontiera (Mondadori, 2017), a publishing success sold in over 10 countries, he has achieved international renown in recent years.
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Davide Van De Sfroos
Davide Van De Sfroos, pseudonym for Davide Enrico Bernasconi (Monza,1965), is an Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist and writer. He has released nine original albums, winning two Tenco plaques in his career (in 2002 and 2008). His participation at the 2010 Sanremo Festival with the song Yanez, which took fourth place, led to wider renown, which has however never compromised his folk style and use of language, characterised by a mix of literary and neo-standard Italian and Como dialect (laghée).
Guest eventsDon Luigi Ciotti
Don Luigi Ciotti (Pieve di Cadore, 1945) is an Italian Catholic minister and activist. He was the originator and founder first of Gruppo Abele, to assist drug addicts and combat other addictions, and then the Libera association, committed to fighting Mafia abuse throughout Italy and the world. Ciotti is also a journalist (since 1988) and writes for various newspapers and magazines. A “street priest”, he is also known for being one of the first Catholic ministers to actively concern himself with HIV, a commitment that led to him being nominated as guarantor at the 7th World Conference on AIDS in Florence, in 1991.
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François Cazzanelli
François Cazzanelli (Aosta, 1990) is an Italian mountaineer. He grew up in Valtournenche, at the foot of the Matterhorn, a mountain he began to explore at an early age, thanks to his parents, both descendants of famous mountain guides from Valle d'Aosta. A mountain guide himself, since 2012 he has been a member of the Italian national ski mountaineering team, while at the same time focusing his mountaineering activities on non-European expeditions: from Nepal and China to Alaska, Antarctica and Argentine Patagonia. He has also achieved considerable success linked to speed records and concatenations.
Guest eventsSimone Salvagnin
Simone Salvagnin (Schio, 1984) is an Italian athlete. At the age of 10, he gradually began to lose his sight, due to a degenerative disease that left him almost totally unable to see. During his career, he has been a member of the Italian national climbing team (para-climbing B2 visually-impaired category) and he won a gold medal at the 2011 World Climbing Championship in Arco, as well as two bronze medals at the subsequent World Championships in Paris, in 2012 and 2016. From 2011 to 2016, he was the athlete representative on the International Committee, while he currently heads the paralympic sector of FASI (Federazione Arrampicata Sportiva Italiana).
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Giuseppe Cederna
Giuseppe Cederna (Rome, 1957) is an Italian actor and writer. He has featured in several Italian and foreign films, most notably Mediterraneo (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992) and Hammamet, for which Cederna was nominated for a David di Donatello as Best Supporting Actor in 2021. A mountaineering enthusiast, he acts as virtual guide at the National Mountain Museum in Turin, thanks to televisions placed in the various exhibition halls.
Guest eventsAnnalisa Minetti
Annalisa Minetti (Rho, 1976) is an Italian singer-songwriter, paralympic athlete and model. Seventh at the Miss Italia contest in 1997, she won the Sanremo Festival contest the following year, at the age of just 21, with the song Senza te o con te. At the same time, she successfully continued her sporting career, winning a bronze medal in 2012 at the Paralympics in London (in the women’s 1,500 metres) and a gold medal the following year at the World Championships in Lyon, this time in the women’s 800 metres.
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