Hello to you all and congratulations on reaching 97% of the total challenge. We were brand new to this group, organization and challenge and must admit it was a great initiative. Everyone we talked about it with wanted more information. Gianluca is the chef de pole at the hospital here in the Mont Blanc Valley and works in every hospital from Evian-les-Bains to Aosta, Italy. He just signed a huge deal to help Aosta and in exchange we will be introducing robotic surgery to the service. We are proud to have been here for twelve years and he has now accepted a position at UCSF. Until next year, cheers to all participants!

Congratulations to team Samarani on all your hard work and dedication over these past twenty days of walking together. From our house to yours! Cheers! Last year, the challenge objective was to walk around the world once. Since they achieved that goal, they raised the bar to eight times this year. It may have been raised too high, but we participated to make it to nearly 97% towards that goal! Awesome job and we will all get in touch with you personally very soon. Thank you again!

The end of our challenge and Gianluca finished 14th! Congratulations to everyone who participated in team Samarani!

We are way over 1 million steps by now and we still have eight more days to go. Gianluca is getting tuckered out, so let’s pick up the pace and keep walking as much as we can!