Testimonials

Arabel, exploratory ski mountaineering at 4000m in Kyrgyzstan

Extraordinary places in a country that is far from us not only geographically, but also in terms of culture and perception of time. The impeccable organization in every aspect allows you to fully enjoy a truly unique experience. Adriano is the ideal guide for an exploratory ski touring trip: he manages to convey and let you experience that ancestral spirit of the discipline, which is now increasingly rare to find in places closer to home. Thanks again for everything, and well done—I know very well how much work behind the scenes is fundamental to the success of such a trip. See you soon

Marco

Selvaggio Blu

Hi, I just got home. It was fantastic and Daniele is a really great Mountain Guide. Everything went perfectly. Thanks

Beatrice

Ski touring among the giants of Valpelline

Hi Michela. Vacation ended yesterday. Very nice and everyone very happy. I'm doing some quick calculations. In these 5 days we did over 6,000 meters of elevation gain and almost 90 km, thanks to CHRISTIAN SUPER GUIDE AND GREAT PERSON. Absolutely positive feedback. See you next time!

Paolo

Ski touring in Senja, the magic island north of the Arctic Circle

Hi Michela, I'm reaching out this time to thank you for your help and for organizing the whole week!! We had a great time, both with you as our contact and with the group and Andrea (Mountain Guide) during the week!! We hope to be able to head out with you again soon!

Daniela

Ski touring in the land of Iceland

Right at the time of long conflicts, with the planet's big shots hunting for rare earths and even threatening to butt heads—the kind that seriously harm the planet's health—we decided to look for a bit of peace in a truly unique land, where the only drift is continental and the cracks stop at the crust, seeking that rare lightness of fine powder, manna for every ski-nut. So, Iceland it is—the island bubbling with good and right things to let your gaze wander over infinite icy prairies and puffs of heat you can feel from your core. A marriage of opposites that joins hot and cold, stews and permafrost, and boiling ice. And so, after a spring welcome in Reykjavik and a night at the Hotel Aurora with not a hint of the Northern Lights, we settled into a quartet of studded Dacias in a caravan, not unhitching until Akureyri, our base for warming up the skins. Spread across 5 wooden cabins perched over the Blomsturvallavegur fjord, you realize that trees are a rare commodity here; they’ve stopped bothering and decided not to take root, making life easier for large clumps of sedge and an expanse of moorland tinted in burnt Iceland earth, trusting only in a generation of replanted ones that look like little groves combed with a rake. Welcoming us, as exceptional neighbors, were a few seals enjoying the usual daily chill and a ptarmigan on the doorstep, determined to ditch the trendy autumn-winter camouflage for a handful of cereal crumbs left by those who preceded us in the end-of-stay cleanup. Then, wandering over cones and slopes in a perfect democracy of peaks, all with an equal right to height, cloaked in a growing whiteness, day after day, snowfall after snowfall, with spirits rising and days now running out, finding that serenity of a meaningful peace, right where every human footprint is aware of the ephemeral step of a journey through time. P.S. A big thanks to all the fantastic adventure companions, to my bunkmate Davide, and to the super Mountain Guides Adriano and Stefano from Snowder—great people both in and out of their boots.

Giulio

The best Sghiada ever!

Imagine a beautiful Cuneo valley, Valle Gesso, beautiful spring snow, a mountain guide like Adriano Ferrero who knows the area like the back of his hand and a group of 5 friends with a passion for ski mountaineering but also with a great desire to have fun together : here you have the perfect ingredients for a “Sghiada”! Four days of ski mountaineering in the mountains behind the house, far from all thoughts and stress (which are quite a lot in this period), thinking only of having fun on skis and partying once you get back to the refuge. The "sghiada" is all of this, and obviously the above ingredients cannot miss a refuge manager like Andrea Cismondi, manager of the Casa Savoia in Terme di Valdieri and of the Valasco refuge, in the heart of Valle Gesso, who made us feel like at home and treated us like gentlemen, in an alpine refuge in the middle of winter. We spent 4 wonderful days in the stupendous Valle Gesso, we made demanding trips such as the crossing to the Punto Nodale or the climb to Rocca La Paur, we skied on beautiful spring snow: but the "sghiada" is not only this, there are not only 4 fantastic ski mountaineering trips, but it's all together, it's an experience to be lived to the fullest of friendship and immersion in nature. No self-respecting ski mountaineer can miss the "sghiade" experience with Adriano Ferrero!

Alessandro Borea

Safe emotions

Adriano gives emotions in safety, this is my experience with him in a nutshell. As always, he amazes for his knowledge of the places, the careful search for unconventional itineraries, sometimes non-trivial, but always consistent with the people he leads to the mountains. Oh yes, a characteristic of him is to adapt the trips to the pace, technical skills and expectations of the "clients".

Paolo Canavese

What skiing!

"A trip to the mountains is not just a simple excursion but a small journey, there is waiting, preparation, the discovery of a new or already known but still new place (because in the mountains every trip is different even if it is always the itself, the conditions, the weather, the company change), the pleasant anxiety of the unpredictable and the unexpected and the joy when you reach your goal, the greater the greater the fear of not making it La sghiada is all these things together and something more, amplified by sharing intense moments with other people in a reality that is close in km, in our Alps, but very far from everyday life.. a zero km adventure that tastes like exploration.. because to explore you don't need to go far.. and then what could be more beautiful than being lulled for a few days by a ski descent on the snow and by the sight of a starry sky outside the door of a shelter?

Luigi Barile