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I am passionate about the Alps. They are my heart's home and the place where I would like to spend the last day of my life. I have been a tourist in the village of Champoluc in the Italian Monterosa for all my life and worked as a tourist operator in this area since more than 15 years.

I believe in respect for the special environment of this place that you can find only here. We all gain by enjoying its beauty, while trying to make a minimum impact at the same time. Leave it for our children in the future!

I believe in respect for people who live here with their traditions and culture, language, and work, their genuine products and delicious wines. They open their homes for us, tourists and meet us as their guests, if we are able to open our hearts for them. I have a friend who is a hotel owner and he says that when stressed people from the city come to his place, he tells them to sit down and take a drink before they even begin to worry if they have a room. Perhaps, we can bring a little of their kindness and calmness with us on our way back to the city.

My philosophy is to give back a little of what the mountains and the people from this place have given to me and to my family through my work, to communicate my philosophy and my passion to those who follow me on the blog, and in my trips as a tour operator.

If you would like to visit Champoluc, Gressoney, Alagna or other villages in the Aosta Valley, trek or ski in the Monterosa, discover Sardinia or other places we offer, contact us.

The Mezzalama Trophy in the opposite direction

Posted: Nov 4, 2014
Categories: Uncategorized, News
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The Mezzalama Trophy

The next year edition of the Mezzalama Trophy will change its direction. Competitors will start from Gressoney-La-Trinité and finish at Breuil-Cervinia. “This will be an unprecedented Mezzalama, more technical, longer, with a completely different approach!”, says organizers.

The Mezzalama Trophy is a well-known, high altitude ski mountaineering competition in the Cervinia region. Besides the two other events – the Patrouille des Glaciers and the Pierra Menta – it is the highest alpine ski mountaineering competition in the world. The 20th Mezzalama Trophy will take place on the 25th April and will commemorate 150 years since the ascent of the Matterhorn peak that is an icon of the competition. The race, established in 1933 and named in honour of the mountain guide and a pioneer of the Italian ski mountaineering, Ottorino Mezzalama, will be run backwards. 

The Mezzalama Trophy

The race was once run in the opposite direction. In 1937 the Mezzalama Trophy inaugurated the Cervinia-Plan Maison cableway, which opened the new ski era in the Breuil Valley. The forthcoming Mezzalama Trophy will be challenging what Adriano Favre, technical director of the race, admits:

“There will be a completely different approach to the competition. The timings will be different. Given that the over all altitude gain will increase by about 350 metres, the technical difficulties will increase, and competitors, on 25 April, will have to be mountaineers too. Certainly those who do not have the required technical knowledge and are not used to high mountains may have some difficulties.”

Check the maps, previous results and read about history of the Mezzalama Trophy.

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