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Roby Manfrè Scuderi. A Martian in Palermo is the vibrant and collective portrait of a legend of Sicilian climbing: thanks to the voices of those who knew him and accompanied him on the walls, the book tells how Roberto Manfrè Scuderi opened over 300 routes in Sicily between the late 1970s and 1990s, transforming Monte Pellegrino into a laboratory of passion, imparting not only technique but a true mountaineering culture to future generations; the charismatic figure of a man emerges, who, with his unique style, shaped the history of island climbing, leaving a human and technical legacy that still pulses in the fingers wedged in the cracks he discovered and in the hearts of his disciples.