ETTORE CAMPANA, A PASSIONATE OF LARGE SPACES, NATURE, MOUNTAINS AND ADVENTURE, IS PREPARING TO CLIMB THE CARACORUMBY BICYCLE. THIS REPRESENTS THE FOURTH ENTERPRISE OF THE THIRTY-YEAR-OLD BRESCIAN, OF THE PROJECT “SCALO DREAMS”DEDICATED TO CHILDREN HOSPITALIZED IN THE PEDIATRIC ONCOHEMATOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF BRESCIA. HIS OBJECTIVE IS TO MOTIVATE LITTLE PATIENTS NOT TO GIVE UP, TO BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES AND TO KEEP THEIR MORALE HIGH
This adventure will bring Ettore Campana in Pakistan, where he will face a new cycle-mountaineering experience. He will walk the Karakorum Highwaythe highest international road in the world, with the aim of reaching the Khunjerab Passlocated at 4693 meters, on the border with China.
He will travel alone, bringing with him all the mountaineering equipment necessary to climb mountains between 4,000 and 5,000 metres. During the trip, she also hopes to meet the people Hunza to learn about their culture and lifestyle.
The project SCALO DREAMS collaborate with the “Il Vomere” Social Educational Center for disabled people, with the aim of involving young people and making them participants in the enterprise. The center’s guests have already created gods by hand colored cards which, accompanied by braceletsthey will travel together with Hector towards the Karakorum.
A social mission
The “social mission” of Ettore plans to donate these creations to the children of the villages he meets, as a symbol of friendship, solidarity e sharing. Another aim is to inspire kids to see sport not as a competition but as a means to connect with nature, valuing the path and the approach, rather than the finish line itself.
Since the trip will take place at the onset of winter, the conditions of the passes and peaks are uncertain. However, as in every adventure, it will be precisely this uncertainty that makes everything more exciting.
Ettore will share daily updates with the Vomere kids and anyone who follows the journey, publishing photos, texts and videos on the Instagram page @etto_vololibero. When possible, they will also try to organize live broadcasts with the education center.
Departure is set for October 15th. The previous weeks will be dedicated to the final preparations: visiting the kids at the center, holding evenings to talk about SCALO SOGNI and perfecting the equipment and logistics.
Previous businesses
Ettore Campana, a thirty-year-old from Brescia who is passionate about open spaces, nature, mountains and adventure, has already completed three similar feats.
In 2023 he completed a journey across the Alpssolitary and self-sufficient, traveling exclusively by bicycle with ski mountaineering equipment.
During this project, the children were actively involved signing colored flags, then carried by Ettore to the peaks reached. The journey began and ended at Brescia Hospital.
In the autumn of the same year, Ettore crossed the Sud Africa by bike, starting from Cape Town to Maputo, in Mozambiqueimmersed in wild and uncontaminated nature. He climbed the Happy Nice 3482m, the highest peak in South Africa.
In the spring of 2024, he embarked on a new solo expedition in style bikepacking e ski mountaineering In the Caucasusexploring the Svaneti and Kazbegi regions. Despite the difficult snow conditions, he managed to climb the mountain alone Monte Kazbek5054 meters high, the summit is the most coveted peak of the project.