This edition is only available in Italian.

This book teaches you to raise the limits of your ventures while keeping risks under control. It is mainly aimed at the world of outdoor adventure sports, providing ideas and tools useful both for the occasional athlete and for the professional who practices or manages an outdoor activity.
But it also offers many reflections and stimuli to anyone who finds themselves facing, by choice or by duty, a risk situation, at work and in everyday life.

What is the difference between Risk Management and Safety?
How can risks be reduced to an acceptable level and at the same time keep interest in the activity alive?
How to interpret the warning signals? How to make the right decision in an emergency situation?
How are the most frequent errors generated and how can they be avoided?
How to evaluate the effectiveness of safety measures?
What guarantees can a guide offer?
What legal responsibilities does he have?
What regulations or directives exist in the Outdoor–Sport–Adventure sector?
Are they mandatory or optional?
What are the real causes of accidents?
What and how can we learn from them?
What are the steps to implement a risk management system in my organization?

In the book you will find the answers to these questions!

Filippo Gamba, avalcotravel.com, engineer and business consultant, has worked on the design and risk management of complex systems, in plant engineering companies and international organizations, including CERN in Geneva. In 2006 he founded Avalco Travel, a small tour operator dedicated to sports travel and mountaineering expeditions around the world. Since 2009 he has been involved in Risk Management in outdoor sports, together with his partner Nigel Gifford, a collaborator of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Piedmontese by origin and Milanese by adoption, he has always practiced various mountain sports: skiing, mountaineering, trekking, paragliding, kayaking, mountain biking. He was a ski mountaineering instructor for the CAI and a mountain bike instructor for the SIMB. On skis or on foot he has traveled the mountains of the whole world, in Europe from the Alps to the Arctic, in America from Patagonia to Alaska, in Africa from Kilimanjaro to the High Atlas, ending with the giants of Asia in the Pamir, Tien-Shan, Himalaya and Karakorum. He collaborates with some magazines of the outdoor sector and with companies dedicated to alpine skiing.