Michele Boscacci, ski mountaineering in a family of champions

Just as being a parent is not easy, sometimes even being a child can be difficult, especially when your parent is a well-known personality. The fear of disappointing expectations becomes an obstacle to achieving one’s goals and feelings of inadequacy become a reoccurring theme.

This can happen, but today’s episode tells a totally different story. It is the story of Michele Boscacci, ski mountaineer, and his father Graziano Boscacci, former world champion in the same discipline. A story that talks about the relationship between father and son as well as the relationship between two champions.

Michele was born in Albosaggia, one of those places where skis and skins triumph, a small town in Valtellina that boasts a number of record victories in the world of ski mountaineering.

As the son of a ski mountaineer, he soon embraced his father’s passion, following him to the races in the years in which Graziano scored important victories in National and International competitions, winning the first world ski mountaineering championship.

At the age of 5 he put on his skis for the first time and immediately proved he had the making of a champion. Today, nearing the age of 30 years old, he has become “king” of the ski mountaineering world, having collected an incredible number of victories, including the Overall World Cup and the Grand Course.

Link: La Sportiva