Carla Monnosi Perrotti was born in Milan (Italy) on august the 10th of 1947. Her height is 1.65 meter for 53 kilograms of form weight.
Since her childhood she grows a real passion for traveling and the adventure. She inherit from her father who was a national sky champion and her mother from Austria who was a champion of swimming her the love for sports and her uncle Raimondo Bucher who was the first world holder for diving in the fifty's transmit her the love for the sea.

While attending university for her accountancy diploma she also train in several sports, between her favorites there are sky and track and fields than for several years she compete at high levels. Carla also became a dive master assistance to get closer to the marine world, which she's fascinating by.

She starts backpacking trough the world with her husband and Doctor Oscar very soon, sleeping in tends and sleeping bags. They organize trips in countries that were considered very hostile then reaching also for three times the Rain Forest (Carla's dream) then Borneo and Papua Guinea and later Indonesia and numerous other countries of Africa. They collect 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 realize with Oscar numerous naturalistic documentaries for "Canale 5" taking care of the direction and writing the texts and take her husband last name for convenience.

1991 is the year that starts her activity as a solo explorer in the deserts of the worlds.
Almost by accident while she was in the Sahara to make a documentary she meet a Tuareg caravan with their camels. She's so fascinated by it that she decides 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 achieve to finish the solo walk crossing of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, The biggest salt lake of the hearth located at an altitude of 3.700 meters, pulling a trolley weighting 130 kilos without any radio contacts. (180 Kilometers in 6 days).

On April 1996 she goes off to establish a new world record: alone with a backpack she crosses part of the Kalahari desert in Botswana totally independent from water and food, feeding just of what the desert can offer, without any outside support and finding 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 crosses walking solo and totally independent the second biggest desert the Taklimakan located in China, this challenge was never accomplished by anyone She was rewarded of several prices for her sport activity and her commitment toward the environment.
The most significant are: The international award "Fausto Coppi and Costante Girardengo" the "Torretta" award from the Milan town council and the "Ambiente 2000" award.

The first three challenges are explained in her book "Deserti" published by Corbaccio the first literary work of the author.
A second book on the Chinese desert crossing will be published shortly.
The new book will come out on December 2003 and it will tell the challenge of the Taklimakan and Simpson desert.