E 'published in the Corriere Adriatico (March 25, 2007) a good article, written by Lolita Falconi, on our research in the Arctic.
standing start I MODERN ARCTIC EXPLORERS.
those silent "ICE"
LATCH - How to Matteo Ricci and Giuseppe Tucci.
The difference is that they loved to explore the East while Gianluca Frinchillucci, Marche Sant'Angelo in Pontano, focuses on the North Pole.
fell in love with these icy landscapes, those unspeakable silences, of that nature, that sun never sets for months and of those nights from magnetic color and especially the people who inhabit those lands without time that seem to come from a science fiction movie. "Every trip is an experience unique, "says Frinchillucci with eyes that flow of passion.
you can believe it.
Director since 1999 of the Polar Museum of the City of Zavatti Still, one can say without fear of contradiction that is one of the last living explorers. Of the real ones, that do not run with television crews, doctors and assistants in tow. Of those who sleep in tents, which will "contaminate" the local culture, that when they return from a trip can not wait to leave for the next shipment. A scholar of ethnohistory and the indigenous peoples, taking a degree in the field of exploration and encounters in the lands of adventure closer thanks to Professor Mario Polia of which was assistant for years. He, when he is not among young people and lovers of the Museum stop, or does not participate in international conferences, he prefers to wander through the ice of the Pole in the footsteps of Silvio Zavatti.
Today, the are still, in front of the computer on the top floor of Villa Vitali, in the spaces that the City of Fermo offers one of the few, certainly the most famous, polar museums of Europe tomorrow if it is instead of Svalbard, the base of the CNR or the villages of Greenland Eskimos who live where few survive to hunt, where alcohol is a problem, the suicides on the agenda and young people have little hope. Or in Siberia, to study how people live in tents in the middle of the ice at 25 degrees below zero, to document how a family of Nency (nomadic herdsmen) - became a sort of icon - raises her children, manage parental relationships and so on. An adventurous, big-hearted, able to espouse the cause of Inuit children (ie East Greenland) - thinking maybe his little Paul - and to organize twinning with age-matched and Fermo Jesi. Children who share the designs of their own land, to grow in love for their land.
"I decided - explains Frinchillucci - to focus more on the study of peoples of those lands as the rest of my predecessors had done, including the highly respected Professor Zavatti. That's why in 2002 Frinchillucci and his colleagues have created the project "Arctic Peoples Charter" to sound out their populations. "After a series of expeditions to East Greenland, where the people are mostly hunters and where we are working to open our own base - Frinchillucci said, announcing the next adventure - now we want to look closely at where ancient hunters lived the Arctic."
why May 5 a team of researchers from the Marches will start at a time of Svalbard. In addition to the expedition leader Frinchillucci, there will be a photographer Massimo Zancona Macerata, the logisticians George Anthony Marinelli Civitanova Marche, Hugh Tesei of San Gines, Michael Pontrandolfo Pordenone (one that has already shot several times and only the North Pole) and Enrico Mazzoli of Trieste, the latter two are the only non-Marche of the group. And then there will Pierluigi Pompei, professor of Camerino, who manages and controls suggests the power of the team. Do not eat it piping hot pasta dishes, including ice. Indeed, the menu is very similar to what you "need" on the spacecraft: bags of freeze-dried or, when it happens to be a guest of local people, eat seals, bear meat and things like that. "We move with backpacks and tents, bring back more food would be impossible. The freeze-dried only provide the right nourishment with the minimum space and weight. It is not great but is ideal for such shipments. "
Waiting with open arms, Svalbard Islands, is Stefano Poli, Italian Arctic guide who lives there. "When you step on those lands can not help but be fascinated - Frinchillucci says - you are a kind of nostalgia for Arctic polar nights, for example, are something unique. And it's nice to know the locals. With us we're there, equipped, ready for the mission and gassed them that are with us as they should do a Sunday stroll. Fantastic. " Tobias, the leadership of Gianluca Greenland, came to Italy some time ago. Not has endured much: a few days and then wanted to go back one of its ice. "He suffered a lot. You know, there are accustomed to wide open spaces, and a deafening silence here while dying. "
addition to shipments to the management of the museum and the Geographical Institute of Polar "Silvio Zavatti" possible thanks to the valuable collaboration of Roberto Pazzi factotum stationary and playing a few weeks ago is another interesting project that involves five young Fermo (Fabio Scatasta, Marco Raccichini, Elisa Luzi, Moira Serafini, Laura Bacalini) who together have formed the Nanuq team. " The goal? Promotion of the Charter of the work of the people Arctic Project official put in the programs of the International Polar year 2007-2008, missions, activities in different schools. We started from elementary. Soon will be affected also the means and superiors.
Moreover, the Institute Zavatti by the publication of the quarterly magazine "The Pole", sent around the world, founded in 1945 and directed by Silvio Zavatti Today Renato and his son Gianluca Frinchillucci.
Children have assured me that they are already were at the Polar Museum, "three to four or five times". 
