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On line todays, on the Italian “National Geographic” website, an article on the Karakorum and Caucasus expeditions, which respectively took place during the summers of 2009 and 2011.
Along with the numerous comparison images of the glaciers, there are descriptions about scientific, historical and photographic point of views of the expeditions.

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Besides the historical images and the new photos taken by Fabiano Ventura, there are the trailers of the documentaries produced during the two expeditions and some interactive images.

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Thursday, Nov 3rd, at the conference room of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) of Rome, the protagonists of the second photographic-scientific mission of the project “On the Trails of the Glaciers” will make a press conference about their recently concluded adventure and its scientific and photographic results.

Today this was announced on Repubblica.it, with a related article accompanied with a photographic gallery and the documentary trailer.

The speaker of the conference will be: Claudio Smiraglia, international glaciologist, president of the Italian Glaciologist Society, and Professor at the State University of Milan; Stefano Urbini, INGV researcher; Riccardo Scotti, researcher at the Department of Geological and Geotechnological Science of Milan Biocca; Fabiano Ventura, president of the Macromicro association, photographer, alpinist and project creator.

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Starting today, the trailer of the new documentary “On the Trails of the Glaciers – Mission to Caucaso” is online.

During the second expedition of the project “On the Trails of the Glaciers – Caucaso 2011”, this is year as well it was produced the documentary on the expedition.

This new documentary, as it was for the one realized with great success during the first expedition, will be an important instrument to sensitize the public towards the themes treated by the project: it will tell about the on field activities of the expedition and the analysis of the consequent results obtained.

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The “Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival” is one of the most prestigious festivals in the world in the mountain field. The documentary “On the Trails of the Glaciers”, realized during the first expedition of the project headed by Fabiano Ventura in Karakorum (Pakistan), has been selected for the finals between 300 documentaries registered for the competition.

Below is a list of the festivals where the documentary has been selected and/or awarded, thanks to the long and meticulous work of SD Cinematografica:

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After its great success on the major international TV channels, the documentary “On the Trails of Glacier”, realized during the first expedition of the project headed by Fabiano Ventura, in Karakorum (Pakistan) 2009, it is no competing at the prestigious “Sondrio Festival”, the international documentaries festival on the Natural Parks, which will take place October 10^th to 16^th 2011.

The documentary, one out of 14 selected on 80 documentaries presented to the festival, will be showed Oct 13 at 21:30 in Sondrio. It will participate to the international contest, which every year sees from 1987, the participation of the best naturalistic documentaries, of great scientific and cinematographic qualities, realized in Natural Parks and protected areas all over the world.

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Fabiano Ventura, presdident of Macromicro, will be one of the protagonists of “ECOMUNICA”, the first forum on recycling and renewable energy take will take place in Rome, from Sept 29 to Oct 2^nd 2011, in the prestigious location of Piazza del Popolo.

“ECOMUNICA” is an interesting and unique container aimed at divulgating and communicating the value and care for the environment, the importance of recycling, and the innovation of whatever concerns the “green economy”. This is conveyed through an intense program of events, congress, and expositions, which involve citizens, industry, schools and young people. The happening is supported by the Mnistry of Youth, the Lazio Region and the Comune of Roma.

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