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Daniele Matterazzo

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Daniele MatterazzoAndenvironmental hiking guide and traveler. Since 2020, every year, Daniele has been dedicating his free time to ambitioustravel on foot strictly alone. After the first Camino de Santiago, a real revelation, he transformed his passion for walking intoawareness-raising tooland fundraising. His challenges aim to overcome the limits imposed by disability and to support associations that work for inclusion. At the age of 15, he was involved in a car accident and the serious injuries he sustained caused him aphysical disabilitypermanent, compromising the use of the left forearm and partially of the shoulder since then.

They are the oneslong walkson foot to give new life to his life. In 2020 theCamino de Santiago, then theVia Francigenafrom the San Bernardo Pass to Rome. From that journey onwards, he started collections at each departure.funds for various non-profit organizations,walking not only for himself but also for others. He follows The King's Path inLapland, 440kmimmersed in nature and in harsh climatic conditions.

In the summer of 2023 it is the turn of thecrossing of Iceland, a project carried out together with Simone Salvagnin, the first two people with disabilities to complete the feat.

I love the feeling of being immersed in that metaphysical reality of being away from home, away from the familiar, but also simply being outdoors. I feel like the outdoors is my dimension: it makes me feel good.