Personal Interests
- Sports
practiced: alpine and nordic ski, mountain byke, hiking in the Alps,
running, swimming, tennis
- Reading:
moderns classics (Buzzati, Svevo, Hesse, Kafka, Mann) , history of the
1st and 2nd WW (Viazzi, Rigoni Stern), history of science and
scientists (Segre', Fermi), thrillers (Deaver, Connelly, Patterson)
- Bonsai
gardening (pines)
- Jazz
(Pat Metheny Group, Chick Corea) and rock (Genesis, Pink Floyd, Dire
Straits, Massive Attack, Guns 'n Roses, Litfiba, Elisa)
- Photography
of nature
- Walking
around
Favorite Quotes
- "Puo darsi che per colpa del mio dannato carattere, io muoia solo
come
un cane in fondo ad un vecchio e deserto corridoio. Eppure una persona
quella sera inciamperà nella gobbetta cresciuta nel suo giardino
e
inciamperà anche la notte successiva e ogni volta
penserà, perdonate la
mia speranza, con un filo di rimpianto, penserà ad un certo tipo
che si
chiamava Dino Buzzati" (Dino Buzzati, Il Colombre).
Recent pictures
Glacial Lake
neat Pumori base in the Nepal Himalayas (about 5200 m asl;
October 2001)
Pumori at Dawn
(October 2001)
Massimo and
GianPietro Verza at the Pyramid Laboratory (5010 m) installing the
Weather Station in September 2001
Khumbu Valley: Ama Dablam1
(6812 m), Ama Dablam2,
Lhotse (8516
m) and Everest (8848 m), Nuptse (7816 m),
Everest and
Khumbu Icefall, Kangtega (6782
m) and Sherpa monuments, Pumori
at sunset, near the AWS
at 5035m, working with
sherpas at Lukla
Tokyo (March 2002): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Koala at San
Diego Zoo (March 2005)
Sea Lions at La Jolla (April 2005): 1, 2, 3, 4
La Jolla cliffs (April 2005): 1, 2, 3
Birds (April
2005)
The old school
in Old San Diego (about 1850; May 2005)
Sunset on
Pacific Beach (May 2005)
Waves on the
Pacific Coast (May 2005)
From Point
Loma toward San Diego (May 2005)
Blossom in La
Jolla (May 2005)
Mission
Beach and San Diego (June 2005)
Greenbelt Lake (December 2005): 1, 2
Panorama
from Forcella Averau (Trentino, Italy) (July 2007)
Cinque
Torri (July 2007)
Panorama from
Strino Lake (Trentino, Italy), about 2500 m asl (July 2007)
Marmot in
Val Saent, about 2400 m asl (July 2007)
Duomo in
Como (January 2008)