Alessandro Ruffi

Mountaineering is my profession

I live in the upper Tuscan - Emilian Apennines at the foot of Mount Cimone.
As a kid I couldn't stop asking my parents to take me hiking in the mountains . I was literally overwhelmed by the attraction that the adventurous dimension of the mountains had on me. At 14 I climbed my first 4,000m, the Gran Paradiso , together with an Alpine Guide.
At that moment I understood what I wanted to do when I grew up : I wanted to make mountaineering my profession .
Over the next 20 years I had the opportunity to participate in highly demanding non-European expeditions, such as the solitary ascent of the Polish Glacier Direct Route on Aconcagua 6,996 m which I climbed at just 22 years old. I have done mountaineering and ski mountaineering expeditions in Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.
I love the Mountain in all its forms. I work as a full-time Alpine Guide and Helicopter Rescue Technician. In winter I like to work with winter mountaineering and ski mountaineering on my beloved Apennines and in summer on the great mountains of the Alps.