Fabio Bezzi
As a child of the 1960s, the last generation heir to those ideals, I understood and made this vision of development my own. For the first 30 years of my life, engaged in technical work, I applied all my knowledge as much as I could to direct my time and effort in the 'right' direction.
Then the 1990s arrived and, in Val di Sole, the most blatant building rampantism reigned and I was at a crossroads: support it with my ideas or snub it to do something else.
Sport (from water to air, rock to snow) has always been very present in my life.
Fabio Bezzi, I tell myself
Val di Sole and Eurorafting
The good fortune of living in Val di Sole, in these fabulous places, but also the need to find myself in something real and educational, led me to choose - in order to 'think in the right direction' - to venture into rafting.
So in 1999 I started a Sports Centre offering tourists the chance to ride the rapids of the Noce River: EURORAFTING was born above all as a bet with myself.
I am clear about where I want to go and what I want to convey to all those who visit my centre. I create an area where people, first and foremost, can forget the greyness of concrete and asphalt, and walk barefoot in a well-kept and clean grassy surface.
It sounds trivial, but contact with the bare earth, when people manage to find it, triggers a different, more human relationship between them.
The change
The years that I dedicate with passion to this activity are years of great sacrifice. The human capital I draw on is not exactly in tune with my ideas and the harsh laws of the market undermine my path somewhat.
But times run and people mature, IT tools bring us closer and ideas travel faster, changing the course of events.
I meet Alessandro, who has also come back from some pretty heavy events. When the mountain collapses on you and destroys half the country, you have to ask yourself some questions. And so I decide to look beyond. Beyond the darkness, the possibility of creating something beautiful and sustainable.
The thoughts, ideas, visions of 40 years of my life, thanks to Ursus Adventures, finally find meaning and above all an effective sharing with other people who, through diametrically opposed paths, come to a communion of intentions.
The intent is to make an economy while keeping the earth's entropy at bay. Together, marrying development and sustainability, we want to create economy for ourselves and for our mountain community where: 'LA NOT I LARESI IOSA'
