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Francesco Petrarca
A poet and humanist born in Arezzo in 1304, author of a letter describing an ascent of Mont Ventoux dated...
20/07/1304
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Tenzing Norgay
A Sherpa mountaineer, he reached the summit of Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953.
01/05/1914
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Fritz Wintersteller
Austrian mountaineer; first to climb Broad Peak in 1957 with Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl.
21/10/1927
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Edmund Percival Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, one of the first two men, alongside Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Everest
23/08/2026
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Jacques Balmat
Guide, crystal hunter and chamois hunter, co-protagonist of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.
23/08/2026
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Celestine V
He was born in 1209–1210 in Molise into a family of farmers. When he was just over twenty, he left...
18/05/2010
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Johann Jakob Weilenmann
Swiss mountaineer and writer, co-founder of the Swiss Alpine Club in 1863.
20/08/2012
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Jules Bich
Si è spento a Breuil-Cervinia, il 10 febbraio 2003, il decano delle guide alpine valdostane: Jules Bich, aveva 95 anni....
31/12/2003
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Emerico of Quart
Blessed Emerico of Quart, born around 1250 at Quart Castle in the Aosta Valley, is an emblematic figure of medieval...
01/03/2025
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