Mountain guide Enrico Baccanti

I have been practising the profession of mountain guide for over 30 years. Mine has been a life choice I have strongly desired since I was a boy, when I only wanted to spend all my time in the mountains. The Dolomites and Corvara are my favourite place for climbing, hiking and off-piste descents in the surrounding mountains, but also in the Alps, the mountains of the Mediterranean, Scandinavia and many other places. Accompanying people on mountaineering activities is an important assumption of responsibility, but it means first of all understanding their expectations and opening up to them the most authentic aspects of the mountains. After having been part of a team of guides for many years, I preferred to do the job individually in order to give more attention to all those aspects that are important to me in this profession, first and foremost the friendship with the pupil.

"Every grain of that stone, every mineral glow of that mountain, cloaked in night, form, by themselves, a world. Even the struggle to the summit is enough to fill a man's heart." - Albert Camus