Piero Bosco

Born in the tiny and quiet village La Morra, in the Italian countryside, Piero soon set out to know more of the world. In 1987 he joined the army elite mountain corps of the “Alpini” for his military service. During that year he developed his passion for the cold and the ice and also learned how to climb a mountain and how to behave in the wilderness. Later he started working for an insurance company and nowadays he runs his own office. Together with his family he grows vine and takes care of his hazelnut fields. But his passion for the explorations brought him to many remote regions of the Arctic, Sub Arctic and Antarctic. At first on private trips and later as a guide he went several times into the North Pacific (Kuril Islands, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Wrangel, Komandorsky Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Pribilof, Canada), into the North Atlantic (Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Lofoten, Jan Mayen, Faer Oer, Shetland, Kola Peninsula, Franz Josef Land) and into the South Atlantic  (Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula). He travelled a lot in Siberia as well. Piero sailed onboard cruise ships and sailing vessels, paddled onboard kayaks, crossed the frozen tundra with dog-sledges, reindeer-sledges, ski and snowscooter. As amateur of the history of the Polar explorations he has publications in the Polar Record – Scott Polar Research Institute – and Il Polo – Istituto Geografico Polare “S. Zavatti”.