From Rome to Bonn by bike

Omar Di Felice, an extreme cyclist, has biked from Rome to Bonn to take part at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. Tune in today at 15:30 live from Bonn on ESA Earth Observation Instagram as he’s joined by ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano and ESA CryoSat Mission Geophysicist Alessandro di Bella.

The trio will discuss human adaptability to extreme environments, with all three speakers having 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.

Living Planet Symposium is a sustainable event that aims to minimise its potentially negative impact. Read more about LPS's sustainability action plan by clicking here.