The injuries sustained were too serious: for Giulia Maroni, who turned 37 at the end of October, the excursion on Sunday 28 January to the Modena Apennines was fatal. With her partner and their dog, Giulia was walking the CAI path 433 that from Mount Libro Aperto leads to the Taburri refugein Fanano, when suddenly, for reasons yet to be ascertained (probably the presence of an ice sheet on the route), the girl lost her balance, slipping into a gully and falling disastrously for 50 meters among trees and rocks.
The companion's request for help was immediate: the EliPavullo aircraft intervened quickly, bringing first the medical and technical team from the Monte Cimone station to the site of the accident and then the Alpine Rescue team. The rescue operations were complex due to the inaccessibility of the location. Despite the timely intervention of 118 and the flight to the Maggiore hospital in Bologna, Giulia didn't make it. The trauma of her fall was unfortunately fatal.
Born in Faenza (Ravenna) but resident for years in Castel Guelfo, in the province of Bologna, Giulia was a great sportswoman, an animal lover and a mountain, adventure, bike and rally-raid enthusiast. The young girl was well known in the Italian and international off-road world for her role as a driver and navigator thanks to which she had landed in prestigious races such as the Dakar and the Rainforest Challenge Malaysia. In 2021 Giulia had won the Italian Cross Country Rally title; in 2022 she took part in the Dakar rally on a Nissan Terrano, as co-driver for Luciano Carcheri, a role she also held the following year alongside Rebecca Busi from Bologna.
For years president of the off-road club A-Team 4×4 Of Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna), Giulia had participated in the most important offroad races, achieving excellent successes such as the 2016 victory in the extreme “Shemud” race, dedicated only to female crews, among the forests of Malaysia.
He also signed several motoring reports published in the Elaborare4x4 magazine with which he had collaborated for a long period. To the family and many friends, still in disbelief over this tragic fatality, the director of Process 4×4, Giovanni Manciniand the entire editorial team.
Have a good trip Giulia, teach the angels to navigate among the clouds.
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