Guido Monzino

Guido Monzino

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name = Guido Monzino


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Count Guido Monzino (2 March, 192811 October, 1988) was a twentieth-century Italian mountain climber and explorer. In 1973 he led the first Italian expedition to climb Mount Everest.

Life

Monzino was born on 2 March, 1928 in Milan. In his early twenties he climbed the Matterhorn. Subsequently he made a total of 21 expeditions to places including Patagonia, Equatorial Africa, Greenland, the North Pole and the Himalaya, and sometimes following in the footsteps of the famous explorer and mountaineer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933).

Guido Monzino died on 11 October, 1988. He was interred at the Villa del Balbianello on the banks of Lake Como, his last home. The villa today contains a museum devoted to Monzino which includes artefacts acquired on his expeditions including Inuit sculpture, as well as memorabilia including one of the dog sleds from his 1971 expedition to the North Pole, and Monzino’s extensive collections of maps and books.

Expeditions

* 1955 West AfricaSenegal, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
* 1956 Western Alps in Italy and Switzerland – "Grandes Murailles"
* 1957–1958 Patagonian AndesTorres del Paine, including the first ascent of the North Tower of Paine
* 1959 Karakoram mountain range, Pakistan – including the first ascent of Kanjut Sar I
* 1959–1960 Equatorial AfricaKilimanjaro
* 1960 Western Greenland – 66th Parallel
* 1960–1961 Equatorial Africa – Mount Kenya
* 1961 Western Greenland – 74th Parallel
* 1961–1962 Equatorial Africa – Mountains of the Moon and Ruwenzori
* 1962 Western Greenland – 72nd Parallel by sled
* 1962 Western Greenland – 77th Parallel
* 1963 Eastern Greenland – Stauning Alps
* 1963–1964 Saharan Africa – Tibesti
* 1968 Western Greenland – a nautical expedition
* 1969 Western Greenland – Jakobshavn to Qaanaaq by sled
* 1969 71st Italian expedition to the North Pole
* 1970 Qaanaaq to Cape Columbia
* 1970 Western Greenland, a nautical expedition
* 1971 Cape Columbia to the North Pole by sled
* 1973 Himalaya, Nepal – leader of the first Italian expedition to ascend Everest

References

*cite web|url=http://www.circolopolare.com/ita/espl_monzino_i.htm|title=CIRCOLOPOLARE - l'esploratore Guido Monzino|language=Italian
*cite web|url=http://www.circolopolare.com/eng/espl_monzino_e.htm|title=CIRCOLOPOLARE - l'esploratore Guido Monzino|language=English
*cite web|url =http://www.fondoambiente.it/english/Properties/Balbianell/index.htm|title=Villa del Balbianello|publisher=Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano|language=English


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