“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” (Lao Tsu)
Manager of multinational companies for over 30 years: I have worked, travelled and lived on four continents.
I decided to combine my professional skills and life experiences with my lifelong passions: the mountains, the sea, travelling in nature, discovering the local territory and promoting traditional cultures.
For more than 20 years, I have been working in marketing for service and product companies with passion and an openness to innovation: today, Marketing Manager in a translation and interpreting company. What distinguishes me? I am happy in my soul and body breathing in the open air, running, cycling, climbing, touching the grass, snow and ice. These are the moments when I am good with people and myself.
Italy offers an incredible variety of natural aspects, with the constant presence of sea and mountains, and it is thanks to this that I have developed a passion for outdoor activities, whether it is walking, climbing, cycling or swimming.
Slowness is the dimension of traveling in nature: you can stop, look around, smell the scent of what surrounds you, listen to the noises of water, plants, animals, rocks and ice. This makes us feel small but also really part of nature, and here we are fine.
IUAGM Alpine Guide
I work as a full-time guide, realizing my dream of transforming my great passion for the mountains into my profession. For a short time I dedicated myself to ski mountaineering competitions by participating in various competitions including the Mezzalama Trophy; in recent years I have specialized in multi-day ski mountaineering crossings in the Alps with clients from all over Europe.
Ski mountaineering, sport climbing and mountaineering: I don’t have a favorite activity, I follow the seasons, all of them leave me great satisfaction and have allowed me to visit enchanting places like Chile, to ski on volcanoes, Argentina, to climb Aconcagua or the crags of Spain and Greece in search of warmth when the cold begins to be felt at home.
Mountain Leader and Photographer
I’m a professional photographer specialized in mountain environment. I lives and works in the mountains and in the mountains i know how to celebrate the qualities of strength and purity.
I was born 1977 in Genoa, and i approach the photography as a boy right in the mountains and ended up bringing what was a documentary passion of the emotions felt in the mountains to a real creative work and at the service of tourism. I deal with alpine and travel documentaries, collaborating with important televisions such as RAI and BSkyB.
I’m founder of Alpinfoto by producing an archive of the Alpine valleys and major mountain ranges in Europe. I collaborate with the major mountain and tourism publications. I love sharing my work, my passion for photography and the mountains by organizing courses, workshops and photographic trips in collaboration with mountain guides.
Chef and Skipper
I grew up amongst kitchens and dining rooms, and in over twenty years in the restaurant trade I have learnt that hospitality means looking after people down to the smallest detail.
I have worked in top-class establishments, from Relais & Châteaux hotels in Tuscany and London to a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in England.
I live in the province of Modena, a land of authentic flavours and people who take food seriously -and this passion for food and wine is as much a part of me as my other great passion: sailing. I hold an unrestricted sailing licence and RYA certifications as an international skipper.
At Summit-8, I bring these two worlds together: the attention to detail I’ve learnt in the kitchen and in hospitality, and the desire to take people on authentic experiences in the great outdoors, perhaps with a fine meal waiting for them on arrival.
Sail Instructor
Since I was a child I have known the sea and the wind, playing with kites, canoes and small sailing boats.
The passion became sport: regattas, competitions, navigations and then instructor and manager in the most important schools (Centro Nautico di Levante and Velamareclub).
Nautical culture, respect for nature, and crew spirit are my style at sea, and the crew of my heart is my family: Elena and little Matilde, who started sailing when she was just a few months old.
I love to remember a phrase from one of the greatest lone sailors of our time, Bernard Moitessier:
“I am a citizen of the most beautiful country in the world. A country with hard but simple laws, which never cheats, immense and without borders, where life flows in the present. In this country without limits, in this country of wind, light and peace, there is no Great Chief but the Sea”.
