Here I am back again for one more exciting season in Verbier!
Here the snow it's starting to fall heavily and it's gradually covering out all the best terrain to ski on.
Powder-extreme it's operating 100% and I'm enjoying taking my first clients of the season out for some great powder...=»

11.12.2009
North America
Here I am, after the first few turns in the Alps, i flew across the ocean to hunt for better snow. The first stop was in Whistler BC, where i teamed up with Ingrid, Sage, Dana, Adam, Ian, Matty.... and those beautiful people! I had an awesome time, and even if the powder wasn't really powder...=»

11.11.2009
11/27 Parma, Italy. My first slide show evening!

Since I came back from the successful trip in  China, I've been preparing my first public evening, presenting a slide show and some footages.
The kind request came from the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) in Parma, who offered me to be one of their guest in the "Verso...=»

10.10.2009
In search of Shangri La
After a long and propitiatory trekking for acclimatization in the Shangri La area, in the cinese region of Yunnan, the The North Face team's athlets Giulia Monego, Ingrid Backstrom, Kasha Rigby and Jimmy Chin, moved to the region of Sichuan to try to climb and ski down one of the satellite peaks of...=»

01.07.2009
SUMMITS4KIDS

An important project is starting this week in Peru.
It's name is Summits4Kids. It's a sport achievement combined with a charity porpose.
We are 3 girls, professional skiers, Laura Bohleber, Marja Persson and myself, together with a photographer (Klaus Kranebitter) who are going...=»

01.06.2009
Chamonix days...
Chamonix offers always some amazing powder skiing when having the time and the patience to wait for the right conditions.
This spring i had some amazing powder turns in many beautifull descents, as the Spencer couloir at the Aguille de Blaitière, the Glacier de la Noire, the North face...=»

29.05.2009
Svalbard's
...if you're asking yourself where the hell are those islands, take an arctic map, and look a little lower than the North Pole, at about 80° of latitude towards Norway. Here they are.
A small archipelago of islands, which the biggest is named Spitzbergen.
Emilio, Damiano il Brac...=»

18.02.2009
KASHMIR

February is the perfect month to make 4 turns in India!
Destination Gulmarg, ski resort of J&K region.
It has a lift that reach 4000m, the perfect statrting point for some amazing runs!
Myriam, Laura, Geraldine and me are the girl team travelling to this beautiful region, not...=»

21.01.2009
The Freeride World Tour has began.... not for me!
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11.01.2009
Italian powder!

3 fantastis days ow powder, was exactly was i needed after the craziness of Verbier holidays!
The occasion was the photoshhoting for The North Face, with Damiano Levati. The location: Italy, Gressoney, "freeride paradise".
I arrived at Damiano's on wednesday night, and the...=»

25.12.2008
Merry Xmas
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15.12.2008
Garmont
I'm really happy to annuounce my new sponsorship with Garmont.Since last year I've been using their boots, and with no doubt, I found the perfect fit for my feet and way of skiing.I'm so glad to start this collaboration also because Garmont, in it's big range of products, offers me 3 differents...=»

09.12.2008
American holidays
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19.11.2008
Skydiver!
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14.11.2008
Waiting for the winter...
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07.11.2008
Back on skis!
From the 3rd till the 5th of November I’ve been in Austria in Saalfelden, for The North Face sales meeting.It was really interesting, not only for having seen the new fall 09 collection, which looks amazing!, but mostly because the 4th was my first day on skis since surgery!It’s unbelievable that...=»

30.10.2008
Skipass
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28.10.2008
Old new news
Sorry I haven’t updated my website with news since the knee injury in April…Let’s see what happened during these months...2nd of May Innsbruck, Austria, Doc Fink and his saint hands, replaced the old ACL with the new patella tendon.Surgery went extremely well, I start physiotherapy immediately after...=»

10.04.2008
Forget about skiing.... for a while!

Here we are at the end of the season. I still had many good projects for the spring and summer, but the 3rd of April my knee said ENOUGH!
I was on my canadian trip, that as been awesome, but on a pillow-line day i failed a landing and my knee punished me hardly. I missed only the last day of...=»

19.03.2008
5°place at the Freeride World Tour

Last weekend in Verbier, took place the last stop of the Freeride World Tour 2008.
Due to the snow instability, unfortunately we couldn't ride the famous Bec des Rosses, the face that everybody waited for. The day before the eve, infact a huge avalanche clear the wole face leaving...=»

19.03.2008
...Canada, I'm coming!
Before starting the spring mountaineering season, i thought i needed to ski some more powder!
So in 3 days i'm leaving for Whistler and then to Smithers, far far north, where the grizzlies will give us the welcome! The photographer Peter Mathis, 2 other riders of the Kastle team and...=»

11.03.2008
Second place in Tignes, now comes Verbier!

Tignes, France, the 4th stop of the Freeride World Tour.
Last saturday was a beautifull day, the view from the top of Pramecou face was gorgeous.
Everything flow fast and with no stress, the snow on the face was good on the top and got harder with the sluff of the riders later in the...=»

29.02.2008
March...back in action!

Here we are... already end of February... has been a good month for resting my knee and get back in shape. I'm skiing again here in Verbier, strong as before, working as a guide and teaching my clients how to ski hard snow and mogles.
I wish we coud ski some more powder...=»

30.01.2008
Health, first of all!

After the american trip my knee was still too sore to be good, so i went to see a doctor in Innsbruck. After MRI and X-rays here what i found out: bone bruise and little crack on the tibia.
Not too good but could have been worse. Legaments and meniscus are fine!
Result: tree weeks of...=»

26.01.2008
First stop, Mammoth Challenge USA.
The first event of the Freeride World Tour 08 finally took place on the 25th of Jan in Mammoth USA. After been postponed for 3 days, the contest took place regularly in two runs in a smaller venue in Mammoth ski area. The original Mt Mc Gee face, 1000m vertical drop, was looking very bad,...=»

23.01.2008
The season is on!
The winter has started really nicely in the western Alps so far. We got a good base of snow early in the sason in Verbier, and even in this moment it's snowing hard! Tomorrow great day of pow, to not miss!
Next week i'll be leaving for the States, in Mammoth, CA, where we're having the first...=»

20.11.2007
Mission accomplished!
The Patagonian expedition at the Mariano Moreno, is going really well!
With the luck of the weather me and Marcello, once we reached the base camp at the base of the Moreno, that took us about a week, we left the morning of the 14th November for the summit.
We climbed the 2000m vertical of...=»

04.11.2007
Expedition to Mariano Moreno mountain, Hielo Patagonico Sur.

I left for my first South American expedition!
This is my first time in Patagonia, and i’m going to ski a gigantic mountain called Mariano Moreno 3450m, in the middle of the glacier Hielo Patagonico Sur. I am taken by an experienced mountain guide, a friend, named Marcello Cominetti,...=»

20.10.2007
New Freeride World Tour.
Here we go with a new entry of 2007/08! We were all waiting for this!
The FWT, organized by the team coordinated by Nicolas Hale Wood, will start on January 22nd with the first stop in California, with the Nissan Mammoth Challenge untill the 26th.
Then will continue in Russia, with the...=»

19.10.2007
New Sponsors…

From this year i’m very proud to announce that i become part of the The North Face team!
I thank from now all the people that get to work immediatly to organize my schedules and to make me feel part of the team, expecially Marianna Zanatta, that i fell knowing her for a long time, but...=»