Marco Moraglio was born in 1992 and lives in Liguria. He works as an environmental hiking guide: he takes people walking almost every day on the paths of the Parco di Portofino and the Cinque Terre National Park, and several times a year abroad, on trips and treks in Morocco, Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania, Ladakh, Ethiopia, Iran, Jordan, Norway and Patagonia. He is an official guide of the Cinque Terre National Park, the Genoa Aquarium and the Galata Museo del Mare, a qualified tourist guide and lifeguard, and holds BLS and BLS-D certificates.
As a mountaineer he has around ten Alpine 4,000ers behind him, including Mont Blanc in July 2021, and an expedition on the north side of Elbrus (5,642 m). In July 2024 he reached the summit of Peak Lenin, 7,134 metres, in Kyrgyzstan, after Yukhin Peak (5,130 m) and Razdelnaya Peak (6,148 m); the climb was covered by Il Secolo XIX, LiguriaSport and MountainBlog. He is now preparing to climb an eight-thousander without supplemental oxygen, Cho Oyu.
He is also a trained historian: a first-class degree in History and Historical Sciences from the University of Genoa, a doctorate in Law and Human Sciences, and a book on the history of cryptography, «Crittografia e crittoanalisi» (Aracne), with a preface by Davide Arecco. He was the face of the «Io sto con AIC» 5x1000 campaign.