Carla Perrotti
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Accomplishments in the deserts
- 1991. Ténére, Niger. 450 km in 9 days. She was the first woman to have done a solo crossing of this desert with the Tuareg following a salt caravan.
- 1994. Sala de Uyuni, Bolivia. 180 km in 6 days.
- 1996. Kalahari, Botswana. 350 km in 15 days. Carla crossed this desert with a Bushman hunter after having spent four days in his community.
- 1998. Taklimakan , China. 550 km in 24 days. For the first time, a human being achieved a solo crossing of this desert on foot.
- 2003. Simpson Desert , Australia. 430 km in 20 days.
- 2008 New Frontiers. Egypt, the White Desert. A 250-km crossing in the company of blind marathon runner, Fabio Pasinetti.
For more info: Carla Perrotti
- Profession
- Documentarist
- Born
- August 10, 1947
- Lives in
- Segrate (Milano)
- Civil status
- Married
- Height
- 165 cm
- Peso
- 53 kg
- Segno Zodiacale
- Leone
- Nickname
- Lady of the Deserts
- Ferrino products used
- Tent, backpack, sleeping back, snow shoes, camp stove, torches, water bottles
Career
Carla Perrotti is known as the "Lady of the Deserts": she is the first woman in the world to have crossed five deserts on four continents on foot. Carla has also had extensive traveling experiences and expeditions in wild and unexplored corners of the earth, from the Amazon to Borneo, from Papua New Guinea to several areas of Africa. In addition to being a world traveler, Perrotti is also a journalist and writer. With her husband, who is also a physician and cameraman, she has made nature documentaries for Italian television. Moreover, she has narrated her adventures in two successful books: "Deserti" (Corbaccio, 2003) and "Silenzi di sabbia" (Corbaccio, 2005). There is more desert in her future, but this time in the company of someone who could never do it alone. This new project consists of crossing the desert with a blind person, thereby sharing extraordinary emotions with a partner with highly-developed senses.
At the same time Carla is also focusing on the sea. In fact, she intends to live for one month at a depth of 10 to 15 meters underwater. In order to succeed in this undertaking, she has involved a team of psychologists, nutritionists and experts from the Department of Motor Sciences and Sports Medicine from the University of Milan.
An interview with Technical Team
- What is exploration for Carla Perrotti?
- The thrill of wandering into unknown places, feeling curious about meeting new realities, and discovering yourself.
- The quality that people recognize in you?
- Patience.
- Your flaw?
- Trusting my neighbor.
- A childhood memory that you hold particularly dear?
- The days fishing with my father, walking up mountain streams.
- What do the following mean to you:
- Adventure?
- Your heartbeat when you are leaving the familiar behind and setting out into the unknown.
- Risk?
- The extra step you know you shouldn’t take.
- Passion?
- Enthusiasm in facing new projects - small and large alike.
- Friendship?
- A rare treasure to be cherished.
- Keeping in shape?
- Respect for your body and exceptional physical and mental well-being.
- Vacation?
- Recapturing a natural pace and equilibrium between yourself and the environment that surrounds you.
- Your favorite film?
- Roland Joffé’s “The City of Joy???, based on the novel by Dominique Lapierre.
- Your favorite song?
- John Lennon’s “Imagine???.
- The historical figure that you admire most?
- Alexander the Great.
- The athlete you admire most?
- My uncle, Raimondo Bucher, the first record-holder for constant weight free diving: he dedicated his life to sport without ever giving in to compromises.
- If you hadn’t become Carla Perrotti, what would you have done?
- Quello che il destino avrebbe scelto per me. Mi piacerebbe lavorare a stretto contatto con gli animali come ha fatto Diane Fossey con i gorilla: chissà…