Ambrogio Fogar

Ambrogio Fogar ( born August 13, 1941 in Milan, † August 23, 2005 ) was an Italian adventurer and author.

Life

Ambrogio Fogar has the world in more than a year already circling like Chay Blyth in front of him alone on board made ​​of fiberglass sloop "Surprise" in 1973. In 1978, he survived 78 days and 1300 nautical miles in a lifeboat after his yacht sank in the Antarctic. After the rescue of a freighter died his sailors Mauro Mancini. In the Paris- Moscow - Beijing 1992, he was injured in an accident and has since been a paraplegic.

For several years he was the star of the TV show Jonathan Dimensione Avventura. Fogar wrote several books. He died of a heart attack in his Milan apartment.

A self-catering chalet in the Valle Bognanco (on the Alpe Fornalino, 2040 m above sea level. A. ) bears his name.

Works

• 400 giorni intorno al mondo. Rizzoli - 1975
• Messaggi in bottiglia. Landoni - 1976
• L'ultima leggenda ( sul Triangle delle Bermude ). Rizzoli - 1977
• Verso il Polo con Armaduk. Rizzoli - 1983, ISBN 8817853690
• La zattera
• Il Triangle delle Bermude
• Sulle tracce di Marco Polo
• Solo. Mondadori - 1995
• Contro vento. Più grande avventura La mia. Rizzoli - 2005

• Miraculous poles play by Giorgio Bandini and Ambrogio Fogar