The deep interest for mountains has shaped the educational and cultural choices in my life. So, after the Natural Science degree at the Milano University, I became a self-employed, graduate-professional naturalist and a Mountain Leader, since 2004.
Throughout our “MilleMonti” (which means Thousand-Mountains), Since when I was young, I love outdoor sports and traveling around to discover new places and traditions.

I like to share my interest for mountains. Therefore I offer all my expertise and skills to all those who love nature and like hiking into its wildness but have no experience to undertake an alpine trail on their own ..or simply to those that want to hike along with a good company!

My name is Matteo, but while I’m on mountain you can call me “Mammuth”!
I’m 36 years old and I have been a Mountain Leader since 2004.
I chose to become “professional” Mountain Leader because I believe going on mountains is a serious business and having professional guidance is critical.
I was born in the Virgilio’s Land (in Mantova). Someone could ask: “What does he know about mountains, valleys, and glaciers.. if he grew up in a place where the highest altitude is reached by the bank of the Po river?”

Indeed because I’m “stranger”, I’ve curiously approached this world, and I wanted to discover mountains more and more deeply in every aspect. Every time I go on mountains, I enter in it “on tiptoe”, quietly, silently, and with respect for the unwritten rules that live there since ages.
I’d like to teach this way of living to the people I lead long hiking with me!

I’m Agriculturalist, graduated in Forestry and Environmental Technologies, mother of a wonderful kid, as well as Mountain Leader since October 2002.... but you can call me just Paola and, above all, I’m a Mountain Lover since I was born. I’m keen about all kind of mountains, both high or low!

It is rather clear that I like open spaces, to breathe fresh air standing into the wild nature, the more natural it is the better for me.
Whether in the woods or on the top of a mountain, the essential thing to me is that it must be far away from cities and metropolitan civilization.
I like to bring people hiking so that I can show them how walking is still the best way to reach the most beautiful and farthest places on earth... and again, by walking we can try to refresh our view into the world surrounding us, watching things “from distances” that can widen our minds.

Let’s say that Mountains get out the best part of me and, for this reason, I’d like to show the best part I know about mountains to anyone who wants to follow me.

My first 30 years of life I’ve grown up on a flat land, among parents and friends keen about the sea. Then I moved to the Garda Lake (water again), and for many years practiced competitive swimming (more water)...

My adventures in forests and on mountains have begun quite late, but since when I was young I’ve read books about mountains, watching their pictures and imagining to be up there. Then I graduate in Environmental science, which helped me discover that a hiking trail is like a book: each step is like a flip through a page. The surrounding nature is full of data, mysteries, history; each landscape element has an explanation of its collocation.
This is what I like to share with you during my mountain leading.

I’ve been a Mountain Leader since 2002 and never thought before that I could cross my mountain passion with my profession.