Fourth Seven Summits for Andrea Lanfri
Fourth Seven Summits for Andrea Lanfri to climb Mount Kosciuszko
125 kilometers of traverse in a still wild environment, sleeping in tents or some small bivouacs. All in eight days. This is the latest adventure experienced by mountaineer and Paralympic athlete Andrea Lanfri, together with his partner Natascia, during the Seven Summits project. Andrea’s goal is to reach all 7 of the highest peaks on each continent and he adds to his collection that of Mount Kosciuszko, at 2228 meters the highest peak in Oceania and also in Australia.
Stricken in 2015 with meningococcal sepsis that took away both of his legs and 7 fingers on his hands, today Andrea is an example of determination and willpower. Already a year after the illness he was in the mountains, searching for his new life. A life that is taking him to the highest peaks of the Planet, defying limits and barriers that simply do not exist for him.
The climb to Mount Kosciuszko
“Going to the other side of the world just to climb Mount Kosciuszko seemed too little.” So Andrea came up with a nearly 130-kilometer traverse through the mountains of Australia’s Main Range. A place still wild and seldom visited by trekkers, where it is necessary to move having with you everything you need for your trip.
“It was a good adventure, different from my usual standards,” Andrea explains. “An experience not difficult from a technical point of view, but very wild-at least in the first part. The climb to Mount Kosciuszko itself is a suitable trip for everyone. I would say, the easiest summit push of my life. Leaving the tent, at the foot of the mountain, it took us only an hour to reach the summit.”
Andrea Lanfri’s Seven Summits
“The dream was born a few years ago, when I started imagining Everest,” Andrea explains. “I had already climbed Mont Blanc and had already taken my body to high altitude, above the six thousand meters of Chimborazo. So I started to think that it was possible.” That it was not something impossible, a word Andrea never uses. “I don’t think there are impossible things, but things that you are not yet ready for.”
Having chosen, for bureaucratic reasons, to climb Mount Kosciuszko, the ascent of Mont Blanc is no longer valid for the purpose of the Seven Summits, while Elbrus comes into play for Europe.
Determined to fulfill the challenge, Andrea immediately set out with the most imposing peak: Everest, reaching its summit on May 13, 2022. Then on August 22, 2022 came the summit of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain on the African continent. In January 2023 it is the turn of Aconcagua, which Andrea climbs twice, touching the highest point in South America on January 16 and 22.
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