Francesco Sauro, the Italian geologist awarded by Time

Jun 23, 2016 578

A couple of weeks ago, the American magazine Time released its latest "Next Generation Leaders" list. Together with a maverick Olympic gymnast, a teenage rock climber, a refugee building bridges across cultures and several others men and women from around the world who are working hard to change the world we found the name of an Italian geologist, Francesco Sauro.

Sauro is the man behind the discovery of the remote caverns hidden within the Auyán-tepuí tabletop mountain, in the rainforests of Venezuela. The Italian geologist is actually famous for feeling attracted by some of the most remote undiscovered caves in the world, from Brazil to Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, Uzbekistan and the Philippines.

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Fonte: This is Italy

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