I was born in Padua in 1989, I live in the Dolomites and I spend most of my free time into the mountains and travelling aroung the world. In 2014 I got the Master in Chemical Engineering. While I was studing in Padua, Lisbon and Zurich, I realized that mountains fit to me more than laboratories. As well I preferred clouds getting pinkish at sunset to neon lights.
Now I work as a professional mountain guide all year long on rocks, snow and ice. I'm also technician of the Mountain Rescue team.
I love to be one thing with nature, to bivouac on a small ledge halfway a big wall, to watch a deer running under a snowfall, to melt snow and cook dinner outside my tent in a glacier, and to light a fire under the bright stars of a desert night. I love guiding my clients in the mountains and helping them to feel the same emotions, to enjoy beautiful landscapes, to learn safety techniques and, why not, to taste tipical food and wine of the Dolomites region!
Civetta – Zuita Patavina (new mixed route)
Torre Innerkofler – Caddymania (new mixed route)
Campanile S. Marco – Per Aspera ad Astra (new mixed route)
Mur de Pisciadù – Hruschka (mixed route, first repetition)
Crozzon di Brenta – Lisa dagli occhi blu (in a day)
Antelao – Canale Oppel (first ski descent with 3 rappels down)
Civetta – Cima dei Toni (first ski descent)
Pelmo e Civetta (solo ski concatenation in a day)
Mulaz – Canalone Ovest (ski descent)
Climbing of hundreds of classic and modern routes, including:
Marmolada – Tempi Moderni route (with client), Attraverso il Pesce route (up to the ledge), Specchio di Sara, Viva Gorbi, Vinatzer-Messner
Civetta – W Mexico Cabrones (VIII- onsight), Tuyaux de Poêle (7a onsight), Chimera Verticale, Via dei Polacchi, Philipp-Flamm, Aste
Mesules – Alfa e Omega (XI- onsight)
Torre di Valgrande – Carlesso-Menti (VIII- onsight)
Tofana – Compagni di Merende (7b onsight), Ey de Net, Paolo VI, Costantini-Apollonio, Goodbye 1999
Lastoni di Formin – Zoe (7b onsight)
Torre Venezia – Da Pozzo-Pancera (winter ascent), Rondò Veneziano
Bosconero – KCF, Dorotei Masucci, Strobel, Navasa, Scoiattoli route
Tre Cime – Hasse-Brandler, Cassin, Comici, Spigolo Giallo (with client)
Agner - Nord edge
San Lucano - Casarotto dihedral
Sass Maor - Scalet-Biasin
Torre Trieste - Carlesso, Cassin, Tissi
Cima Scotoni - Skotonata galattica, Ivano Dibona, Lacedelli
Torre d'Alleghe - Bellenzier
Cime d'Auta - Spirit, Ronchi
Mulaz – Gigi la Trottola (new route, first pitches)
Monte Bianco – Peuterey integral ridge, Pilone Centrale, Brenva, Tricot integral ridge, Innominata ridge, italian normal route (by bicycle from Padua)
Cervino – North face
Tacul – Supercouloir (onsight), Gervasutti (in a day)
Tour Ronde – North face (ski descent)
Col du Diable – Couloir Macho (ski descent)
Nadelhorn – parete N (ski descent)
"13 peaks" crossing (winter ascent)
2012 – Lofoten (Norway)
2014 – Verdon (France)
2016 – Patagonia: Frey, Piedra Parada, Cerro Colorado, El Chalten (Fitz Roy, Poincenot, Guillaumet)
2017 – Picos de Europa, Mallos de Riglos, Ordesa, Montserrat (Spain)
2018 – Taghia (Morocco)
2019 – Georgia ski trip (Mt. Kazbek 5054mt)
2019 – USA: Yosemite (El Capitan 2 times, Half Dome, Mt. Watkins), Zion NP (Moonlight Buttress), Moab
2019 – Nepal: Inku e Hongu Valley (new route on a peaks of 6113m, new ice fall opened)
2020 – Patagonia: Cerro Piergiorgio "Scrumble de Manzana" (new route), Aguja Saint Exupery, Mermorz, Guillaumet (solo ascent)
Arco Rock Star 2017: Winner for PRO category
King of Dolomites 2018: Winner for OPEN category
Arco Rock Star 2018: 2nd place for PRO category
King of Dolomites 2019: Winner PRO - Landscape category
SCARPA S.P.A.: https://www.scarpa.net/news-events-t.html?tag=mountaineering
Planetmountain: https://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie?autore=Giovanni%20Zaccaria
Equilibero: https://www.equilibero.org/chi-siamo/
Dolomiti Open: https://www.dolomiti-open.org/
Sportfund Onlus: http://www.sportfund.it/home/