About us
Massimo Ala
Association's President, he has been climbing and "living" the mountains since 1981.
Currently he divides his work commitments between activities as an Alpine Guide, work in ropes and collaborations with the Alpine Rescue with a high professional level.
Some information taken from his curriculum:
- Alpine Guide since 1999.
- Nivological survey for AINEVA since 1999.
- Member of the National Alpine Rescue Corps since 1997.
- Helicopter rescue technician at the 118 rescue base in Turin since 1999.
- Alpine Rescue Instructor since 2001.
Davide Enrione
Born in Turin in 1981, he has been a frequenter of the mountains since he was a child. He has followed several classic and modern routes of various difficulties in the Alps.
After graduating in Civil Engineering in 2005 and, he devoted himself to courses to become an Alpine Guide, obtaining the title of Aspiring Guide in 2009 and the following one of Mountain Guide UIAGM in September 2011, crowning a dream.
A lover of the Canavese and Aosta Valley areas, he frequents the mountains all year round in all its forms depending on the season, practising rock climbing, ice climbing, ski mountaineering and off-piste skiing. He likes living mouintain from simple trekking to challenging mixed mountain routes or pricticing skyrunning.
It makes daily use of the union of the two professionals dealing with issues related to safety in training and project (fall arrest systems, special anchors, rope work).
In 2011, together with two friends, he created K3, the first indoor climbing gym in Ivrea, maniging it until now.
Marco Appino
Born in 1984 in Chivasso, since he was a child he discovered the mountain thanks to his parents who passed this passion to him.
The goal of his activity is to live, and make live, the mountain with passion regardless of the experience you are undertaking ...
Aspiring mountain guide since 2011 and mountain guide since 2013, he does this full-time job.
His main activities are:
- Guiding activity in every season and on all terrains;
- Alpine Rescue of which he is part with the qualifications of Elissoccorso Technician from 2014
and Regional Instructor from 2017;
- Rope works execution;
Particularly inclined to commit the little free time...he deals with organization in various professional associations related to the mountain.
Stefano Roletti
Born in 1966, environmental physicist, expert in sound and electromagnetic fields, tourist designer of the Agenzia Turistica del Canavese e delle Valli di Lanzo.
A mountain enthusiast and, although not an Alpine Guide, one of the main enthusiastic supporters of the birth of the Association of Alpine Guides Gran Paradiso Canavese of which it is an integral part in all activities of organization, construction and promotion of tourism product.
Among the innovative works born from its pencil, the exclusive tourist package "Me Na Vòta" of the Alpine Guides, the tourist brand of the territory of the Canavese mountains "Montagne Reali" and the "Alta Via dell'Anfiteatro Morenico di Ivrea".
Nazareno Valerio
Nazzareno Valerio, born in 1937, a man from the mountains of Canavese, Gran Paradiso.
He is an original and very fine connoisseur of the Soana Valley and of the whole Gran Paradiso. He is one of the few Canavese mountaineers already active in the '60s and '70s in opening new routes on the most beautiful rock faces of the Piedmontese mountainside of Gran Paradiso, among which, among many others, we remember: Becco di Valsoera - west crack, Becco Meridionale della Tribolazione - south wall via dell' Angelo, Gran Carro - NO corner, NO wall and variations.
It has to its credit many repetitions on the mountains of house, often also in winter or alone: Monte Destrera, Torre Rossa di Piantonetto, Guglia del Frate.
Strong in rock but a complete mountaineer, he has also been active in other important mountain groups and has climbed 34 peaks above 4000 m.
Knight of the Republic for Alpine Rescue, he is one of the enthusiastic supporters of the birth of the Association of Alpine Guides Gran Paradiso Canavese.