We returned last night from the Desert des Agriates in Corsica where we walked for four days to create a documentary for television. It was a particularly challenging course because of the load we had to carry on our shoulders. Our backpacks, filled to capacity with food, water, tents and all you need to set up camp, weighed more than 28 kilos (65 lbs.) for Max, while mine was around 22 kilos (55 lbs.). Fabrizio our cameraman, carried all the material for filming, which was just as difficult to transport and the heat helped to make our walking very much like one of my desert challenges. It seemed like we were engaged in one of my adventures with team no limits, however, this time I also had to devote time to filming, which took priority over everything. The weather was beautiful and the sea was always calm and incredibly transparent. The nights spent in our tent on the beaches were very humid and there was the totally unexpected presence of large amounts of mosquitoes, which complicated matters further. But the unexpected visit of a fox the first night and the memory of those silences, in contact with nature, lit by a beautiful full moon we miss so much already.
This Mediterranean-desert is truly fascinating and I hope to return again next year with Desert Therapy, to relax and to enjoy it, making it known to those who, like me, love nature in its most authentic and wild sense.
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