Carla Monnosi Perrotti was born in Milan (Italy) on august the 10th of 1947. She is 1.65 meters tall and weighs 53 kilograms.
In her childhood she developed a real passion for traveling and the adventure. She inherited this from her father who was a national sky champion, and from her mother from Austria who was a champion swimmer. And from her uncle, Raimondo Bucher, who was the world record holder for diving in the 50's, she developed a love for the sea.
While attending university for her accounting diploma, she also trained in several sports, her favorites being skiing and track and field. Which she competed in for several years at a very high level. Carla also became a dive master assistant to get closer to the marine world, which she's fascinating by.
She started backpacking trough the world with her husband and doctor, Oscar, often, sleeping in tents and sleeping bags. They organized trips in countries that were considered very hostile then, also going to the Rain Forest three times (Carla's dream,) then Borneo and Papua Guinea and later Indonesia and numerous other countries in Africa. They collected a large quantity of video images and pictures and she became a journalist, making a job out of a hobby.

In 1976, with the birth of Max (her son), she had to mix traveler and journalist with the role of a mother.

In 1998 she begin to collaborate with several Italian television networks and for about seven years she worked with Oscar on numerous naturalistic documentaries for "Channel 5" taking care of the direction and writing the text (and take her husband last name for convenience.)

1991 is the year that initiated her activity as a solo explorer in the deserts of the world.
Almost by accident while she was in the Sahara to make a documentary, she meet a Tuareg caravan with their camels. She was so fascinated by it that she decided to change her life.
She's the first women to have crossed alone, with the Tuareg of the Sahara, part of the Tene're' desert located in Niger, following a salt caravan, in the October of 1991 (450 Kilometers in 9 days).

In 1994 she became part of the "Sector No Limits Team" and in the October of the same year she completed a solo crossing of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, The biggest salt lake of the earth, located at an altitude of 3.700 meters, pulling a trolley weighting 130 kilos without any radio contacts. (180 Kilometers in 6 days).

In April 1996 she set off to establish a new world record: alone with a backpack she crossed part of the Kalahari desert in Botswana totally independent from water and food, feeding just on what the desert could offer, without any outside support and having to find water along the travel. (350 kilometers in 15 days)

Between October and November of 1998 she accomplish successfully her hardest challenge. With a backpack weighting 24 kilos she crossed alone and completely independent, the second largest desert, the Taklimakan located in China. This challenge was never accomplished by anyone. She was rewarded several prizes for her athletic activity and her commitment toward the environment. The most significant were: The international award "Fausto Coppi and Costante Girardengo" the "Torretta" award from the Milan town council and the "Ambiente 2000" award.

Between September and October 2003 she achieved her great dream: completing the circle “One Desert per Continent.” Alone, with a backpack weighing 25 kilos on her shoulders, in 20 days she crossed on foot the Simpson Desert, in the heart of the Australian continent between the northern and southern territory. The first woman in the world to conquer this endeavor.

The first three are recounted in her book, DESERT edited by Corbaccio, published
June 12, 1998, the first edition, also translated into German. In June 2006 her second book was published, Silence of the Sand, with the story of the Taklimankan and the Simpson deserts.

In April 2008 Carla crossed the Akaus Tadrarf in Libya, on foot, alone. It was the first time a woman crossed the Libyan desert alone the name of Peace for Africa.
She walked for one week in temperatures of 45 C in the day and –3 to –4 C at night in wonderful atmospheres with a rich story.