Pasquale scaturro biography sample

Walking into the bar of Philadelphia’s Omni Hotel, we encounter a giant of a man, Pasquale Scaturro.

By: RALPH COLLIER

In April of last year, in the middle of the fast, brown Nile River, twisting through a dark inner gorge, he was hanging onto his life by a rope, kicking to stay afloat in cold water, his stout arms stretched to their limits.

While a skein of currents blasted about his chest, he gripped with one hand the end of a 75-foot-long yellow safety rope anchored to a basalt boulder upstream.

Pasquale scaturro biography sample

With the other hand, he clenched the black neoprene handle of an upside down 16-foot, 300-pound rubber raft, the lifeboat of his ambitious, perhaps imprudent expedition.

Seated at our microphones for a broadcast of Tours and Detours, with muscular hands, he toys with a glass of iced tea as he recounts his ride down the magnificent Nile, the Everest of rivers.

For centuries, the quest to find its source was the holy grail of human exploration. From the ancient Egyptians to Napoleo