DWS Sicily.. una delle più belle scoperte fatte in questo sport senza confini
I was born in Rome, on the 24th January 1973, I lived in Libia up to 8, then in Egypt up to 17. Finally I lived in Nigeria for two years…
Now I live in Malaga.
In 1996 I started up the Sport Climbing Academy Roma Center Climb (actually located in Rome, Via Cassia 1634), that I have headed since then.
Sport climbing is my main activity, that I started practicing because I was afraid of heights and I wanted to escape from the metropolis...
MY ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, ADVENTURES was
- 10 years in the national circuit of sport climbing,
- 4 convocations and 2 participations in the World Cup
- My maximum rotpunkt climbing grade is 8c+, and the onsight one is 8a
- I have traveled, searching for new ways of life
- I have climbed through almost the whole Europe, leading groups of learners
- I organized a camel caravan of 7 days in mountains of Sinai
- I organized several ice climbing courses, in Norway too
- I realized several documentaries about different kinds of climbing: about the metropolitan climbing in 2000, about the Deep Water Solo climbing in 2003 / 2004
- Now I teach my disciples and learn from them.
- My last adventure is my daughter Maya, born on the 3th October of 2013, that is giving me a lot of Joy and a of energy to new challenges
- I’m permanently developing the structures and the didactics of my Climbing Academy
- I manage a Facebook climbing group named KataClimb
- I manage my YouTube channel https://bit.ly/2Mt44oN, where I weekly publish tutorials, videos about the mental training, reportage about trips and new climbing spots
- At now I live in Malaga (Spain) and organize didactic travels for skilled peoples who want to exceed their limits.

One of my trips with my friends/students
I practice other sports:
- Underwater fishing with fish-spear and with spear-guns, in Tripoli (I stopped underwater fishing at 10.. when I learnt how to deal with fishes)
- Horse riding, in Cairo;
- Diving, in Cairo;
- Tennis at the F.I.T. (Tennis Italian Federation), for three consecutive summers;
- 4 diving diplomas PADI with 200 diving in the Red Sea (shipwrecks, caves, canyons)
- Several Raid in the Egyptian desert, (horse, jeep and motorcycle)
- Some mountaineering courses with the mountaineering guide Marco Tiraboschi
- Several ice falls up to the G grade of difficulty with Marco Tiraboschi and Ezio Marlier
- Ski mountaineering in Central and Northern Italy
- I had the AFF parachuting patent with a dozen of jumps in Nettuna and 2 in Venezuela
- I followed several high speed driving courses on the circuit, driving my motorcycle, with Cristiano Franco e Simone Federici, and, whenever I can, I drive my Ducati 1198S on the circuit
- I followed a surfing course on the Lazio coast, and I did a surftrip in Somo (Sant Ander, Basque country)
- I studied at the ISEF, where I practiced all the olympic sports

Il mio ambiente primario..
il deserto mi ha cresciuto e mi ha ispirato
il deserto mi ha cresciuto e mi ha ispirato
My hobbies are
- Reading and studying
- Attending some training courses
- TV watching
- Playing
- Establishing new climbing routes
- Last but not least (maybe first) travelling and challenge myself
Finally, my favorite dish is “pasta alla amatriciana”!!