A-Round About, Rovereto (2026)

25/01/2025

✨ Da oggi, pedaliamo in tre ✨
Ci sono date che segnano un percorso:
🌍 2 gennaio 2018, iniziavo la mia avventura solitaria in Africa in bici. Era il mio sogno, e ha cambiato il modo di vedere il mondo.
❤️ 23 luglio 2022, iniziava il nostro primo cicloviaggio in coppia.
👶 24 gennaio 2025,la prima pedalata con Gea, La bici, da sogno personale, è diventata famiglia.

Pedalare in tre non è solo un gesto, è un modo di immaginare il futuro. 🌱💚
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✨ From today on we ride in three ✨
There are dates that mark a path:
- 2 January 2018, I started my solo adventure in Africa by bike. It was my dream and it changed the way I see the world.
- 23 July 2022, we started our first bike trip as a couple.
- 24 January 2025, the first bike ride with Gea, The bike, from a personal dream, became a family.
Cycling in three isn't just a gesture, it's a way of imagining the future. 🌱💚

🚴‍♀️👶🚴‍♂️

29/04/2024

What to do in the long winter months but travel with thought to a wonderful journey while translating the book?
P.s. dear Pakistani friends, write to me privately, I will be happy to send you the text for free!
🇵🇰"Pakistan Zindabad - a story of songs, chai and bicycles" Is available
Link in bio

09/04/2024

Ci vediamo il 24 aprile a Milano!
L'ingresso e libero aperto a tutti.
A presto!

14/08/2023

Africa's largest ice reserve is disappearing!
About 5 square kilometres of glaciers remain in the Rwenzori Mountains, representing 50% of Africa's glaciers. Scientists fear that they will be gone by 2030, and certainly by 2050.
We wanted to honour these mountains, which are unique in the world.
For this and three other reasons, we decided to climb the highest peak of the massif, Punta Margherita (5109m).
And also:
- there is a unique endemic vegetation (the lobelia and the dendrosenecio)
- The peaks of the massif were conquered in 1906 by an Italian expedition led by none other than the Duke of the Abruzzi.
- The 11th of February is the birthday of . On the 11th of February, I planned everything to be at the summit at dawn.
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🗓️ Date - February, 2023
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31/07/2023

It's not bad travelling in company, you know?
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After my initial experiments a decade ago, I decided to embark on solitary travels. It was an amazing experience. Solitude gives me the chance to express myself completely. I enjoy the freedom to do as I please and have no obligations except to provide for myself.
But I began to feel the importance of companionship, which I had missed. Sharing.
Do you recall my description of arriving in Cape Town in "A Toubabou on the Horizon"? I was all by myself sitting on a bench, attempting to contact friends and family...but nothing. And that's it. Sharing.
Life has given me a present. Now, a new part of my life begins, full of sharing, laughter, and fewer early morning awakenings (any reference to real events is purely coincidental ).
Travelling in company is so cool, you know?
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📍 Location - Various, East Africa
🗓️ Date - Winter, 2022
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30/07/2023

Filippo Graglia ha deciso di dismettere i panni da ingegnere aerospaziale in favore delle avventure in bici

30/07/2023

🇵🇰 PAKISTAN ZINDABAD! 🇵🇰
(Long life Pakistan)
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1. Happiness at sunset. Deosai NP
2. I love Gilgit... and all of Pakistan
3. Going up, always going up! Deosai NP
4. Endless spaces. Deosai NP
5. Crossing the river Chitral. Drosh, Chitral.
6. Can't remember where I took this one :)
7. Wonderful Passu Cones. Passu, Karakorum Highway
8. Remote, silent. Chapursan Valley
9. Remote, silent. Part 2. Valley of Hushe
10. Happiness. Shandur Pass
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🗓️ Date - Summer, 2021
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08/07/2023

[Italiano nei commenti] On the second day of my Pakistan trip, I found myself playing cricket with some young boys in the courtyard of a very peculiar house... read on to find out more!
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"Part of the courtyard is already in the shadow of the surrounding houses when I arrive, but the improvised cricket pitch set up by the local boys is bathed in the warm light of an approaching sunset. It is an esplanade of weeds and concrete. A cement slab now stands where the building had been. Dedication and competition on the field are not enough to keep the children from being distracted by my arrival; my presence on the low wall surrounding the site draws them around me...
On the same spot where I have just performed a feat of sportsmanship worthy of the annals, on a cool new moon night ten years earlier, twenty-four Navy SEALs had used explosives to open a breach in the walls of the compound. Approximately ten minutes later, three 5.56 calibre bullets fired by Agent Robert O'Neill pierced Osama Bin Laden's skull and chest, leaving him dead in a bloodbath".
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📍 Location - Abbotabad, Pakistan
🗓️ Date - July, 2021
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27/06/2023

[Italiano nei commenti]
WATER IS LIFE
"Three quarters of Pakistan's water reserves are stored in glaciers. The melting process of every single molecule of ice is life. That drop will make its way, a few metres or thousands of kilometres, and help irrigate a seedling in the Punjab, or quench a parched gorge in scorching Sindh. Every existence in Pakistan comes down from its mountains."
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1. The Chitral River near Booni, Chitral Valley
2. the Noori flows on a placid plateau on the border with Kashmir
3. the Gilgit in the upper part of the Phandar Valley
4. the Gilgit further downstream
5. the Noori shapes the valley in the upper part
6. in 2010 a landslide blocked the Hunza, creating the Attabad Lake
7. the Shyok collects glacial waters south of the Karakorum
8. the Mastuj in Upper Chitral
9. the Shyok collects glacial waters south of the Karakorum
10. Lake Shandur, at an altitude of 3700m on the border between the provinces of Gilgit and Chitral
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20/06/2023

[Italiano nei commenti]
Pure, remote, wonderful. It is the Chapursan valley, on the border with Afghanistan.
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"The sun is already illuminating the vast valley floor, but the air is still not warm enough when I set off again in the morning. With the first pedal strokes, my legs are stiff as wood, but my head is already running fast and light...
The dehydrated and rarefied air reduces refraction to a minimum, so that every colour has the right to shout its essence to the world, even at the greatest distances. The yellow of the crops, which are about to be harvested; the brown mountains, with shades of pink or even violet, contrast with the bright green of the pastures; a uniform blue is the palette on which white clouds rest like cotton balls...
I see the track disappear behind a small hill, then another. I pedal, I stop to listen to the wind, I rejoice. In fact, I shout with joy, with serenity, with purity. I could be the first cyclist to have travelled this road, but that does not occur to me, it does not matter now. It is my presence in the environment, my figure deflecting the flow of the wind, the shadow running beside me, that gives me joy and peace".
Excerpt from my new book: 'Pakistan Zindabad'.
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📍 Location - Chapursan Valley, Pakistan
🗓️ Date - Sept, 2021
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05/06/2023

[Italian in the comments]
Some places are so beautiful that they seem to have been created by artificial intelligence... but then you remember that nature has many more powers than AI, and that you can venture into those places.
The Hushe Valley is the gateway to the giants of the Karakorum.
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A dramatic series of sharp, jagged, clearly granite peaks tower above the entrance to the Hushe Valley. They invite pause and contemplation, so different from the surrounding mountains, ochre and lacking in character. But they are only the first hint of what the valley holds: I am entering the realm of granite...
I could tell of the rafts of enchanted vegetation floating in this ocean of granite that touches the sky. I could talk about how blue it is, that it too seems to be a calm ocean. During my clumsy ascent, I could tell of the blonde harvest, calling the eye to attention and the peasants to the fields for the harvest. I could tell of the little children chasing me playfully, cackling and calling me: "shik qalam!". I could tell you that I would soon discover that they were actually chasing me to ask for "a pen".
Each place suggests a preferred means of discovery: goats, mules and shepherds have walked these paths for thousands of years, mountaineers only in the last fifty. Are there as many opportunities for cyclists?
No.
I would put this day in the category of daring experiments. It comes close to the cyclo-mountaineering experience, but the latter, to be considered worthwhile, must guarantee an exciting descent, an element that is lacking in this case".
Extract from my new book: "Pakistan Zindabad".
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30/05/2023

[ITALIAN in the comments]
Sometimes you have to put your bike aside in order to continue exploring. So I decided to dedicate a week to mountaineering in the area of the mighty Nanga Parbat.
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"Seeing this motley crew - three locals, two mules and a tourist - you would be forgiven for thinking they were about to embark on a month-long expedition. According to plan, however, we would only be in the mountains for five days...
I take a deep breath, holding my breath as if to hold back the tears, but they find their way. Beyond the mountains a big moon had risen, round, perfect. In Shaigiri, a traveller in love with the world stands with his mouth half open, gazing at the mighty mountain. The white mantle glows with an ethereal light, and the rocky buttresses seem to be illuminated by day, while beyond, the starry vault seems to shine only for him this night. A mystical and sensual rapture holds the traveller captive before the mountain for an indefinite period of time that feels like eternity. It is not like him to use superlatives, but here he is facing the absolute, a piece of immensity turned into rock, turned into light. Then, yes, he can say it: for him, there is nothing more beautiful in the world at this moment."
Excerpt from my new book: 'Pakistan Zindabad'.
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📍 Location - Tarashing Valley, Pakistan
🗓️ Date - Aug, 2021
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