Dep. Legal MA-74-2004 - ISSN 2488-1562
Costa del Sol • Issue No. 2065 • 30 Jan - 5 Feb 2025
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Hiking for humanity
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TWO young adventurers from Marbella, tired of seeing constant negativity in the news, are setting out on foot from Sicily to Rome and up to the north of Italy without a penny in their pockets to prove there is goodness in people everywhere. Adrián Ruiz Pelayo from Marbella and Andrea Martello from Italy are making Marbella Club their starting point, taking a donated sailing yacht from the club’s pier and heading to Sicily, more than 2,000 kilometres away, and then entirely on foot until they reach the Strait of Messina separating Sicily from mainland Italy. There, they plan to swim across the treacherous strait and continue hiking to Rome, where there is already an audience with the Pope planned. Afterwards, they continue their hike to the very north of Italy. But why are they doing this? To highlight the kindness of people. While mostly we continually see negativity in the news, these two guys want to highlight that most people are
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Andrea Martello and Adrián Ruiz Pelayo.
good. The journey will be documented by Pelayo and Andrea as ‘Un Camino por Descibrir’ or ‘a journey of discovery’, with their main priority being to highlight the generosity of people, human kindness, and the power of companionship. Their first trip together was in 2019, in which they toured Spain on foot in an awareness-raising act to highlight the importance of preserving Spain’s spectacular natural parks. But what surprised them most
was the response of the people they met along the way and how they would invite Pelayo and Andrea into their homes to rest and share paella with them. The kindness and generosity they discovered inspired
them to take their project further, to Italy, the mother country of Andrea. The two start out on their odyssey on Saturday March 1 when thousands are expected to wave the two off from Marbella Club pier.
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