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One of the sessions at Living Planet Symposium focused on human adaptability to extreme environments. The discussion was triggered by the different experiences of the three speakers: ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano, ESA CryoSat Mission Geophysicist Alessandro di Bella and Omar Di Felice, an extreme cyclist, that biked from Rome to Bonn to take part at the symposium.
All three have lived or worked in very difficult, albeit different, environments. Omar has biked through the Arctic from Kamchatka to Alaska earlier this year to raise awareness on climate change, Luca Parmitano has worked in outer space and underwater, while Alessandro di Bella recently set off on a campaign in Greenland to cross-validate ice-monitoring satellites including CryoSat and Copernicus Sentinel-3.