Franco Gherlizza

I was born in Trieste on 19 november 1951, and I recently reached 50 years of activity. Since 1971 I’m involved in caving teaching in schools of every type and level and I’m caving instructor since 1974, the year in which I joined CNSAS.

I left it in 1993 after that I served in the last three years the position of National Coordinator of the Prevention of Accidents Commission. I have held numerous positions of presidency, among which: College of speleological guides of FVG, Speleological Federation FVG, Regional and Speleological Federation “Triestina”.

I was lucky to attend, since 1975, to about forty caving fields both nationally and internationally. In 2000 I organized in Trieste the International Meeting of Speleology called "Bora 2000", which was attended by over 3000 cavers from all over the world. Actually I can present an editorial production of a dozen books and over 150 papers on speleology, mountaineering and artificial cavities.

Over 110 natural caves are registered to the Land Registry and more than 230 artificial cavities are detected. Today I deal in disclose with a decent success. Specifically: prevention of accidents in cave, teaching in schools and legends related to the world of caves. Other passion: the organization of speleological expeditions around the world and the video-documentation.