alpinisti

A Sherpa mountaineer, he reached the summit of Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953.

Austrian mountaineer; first to climb Broad Peak in 1957 with Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl.

British officer, leader of the 1953 Everest expedition.

New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, one of the first two men, alongside Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Everest

Guide, crystal hunter and chamois hunter, co-protagonist of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.

French mountaineer, mountain guide, writer, photographer and filmmaker, the first person to climb all six of the great north faces of the Alps.

Charles Evans is the British mountaineer who, in 1953, together with Tom Bourdillon, reached the South Summit ofEverest, the highest point reached by John Hunt’s British expedition before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit. In 1955, he led the British expedition that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest peak. A surgeon by training, he was principal of the University College of North Wales (later Bangor University) from 1958, and president of the Alpine Club from 1967 to 1970.

As parish priest of Alagna Valsesia, he reached the Signalkuppe – now known as Punta Gnifetti – on 9 August 1842.

Born in Bologna in 1888, Ottorino Mezzalama is regarded as the father of Italian ski mountaineering: thanks to him, the exploration of slopes and valleys also gained recognition, without this necessarily having to be geared towards the conquest of a summit.

Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker

A Savoyard doctor and naturalist, who, together with Jacques Balmat, was one of the protagonists of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.

A Chamonix mountain guide who was a climbing partner of the British mountaineer James Eccles for around forty years.

Mountaineer and pioneer of Italian ski mountaineering.

A mountaineer from Verrès, he opened over fifty new routes between 1926 and 1933.

A Valais-born mountain guide who grew up in Macugnaga, the first person to climb Aconcagua in 1897.

Born in Valfurva on 26 September 1914, where he resided during his childhood years and his long period of military service where he excelled in Nordic skiing.

An engineer and mountaineer from Turin, a founding member of the Turin Ski Club and the Italian Academic Alpine Club.

A mountain guide from Grindelwald, who led the first ascent of the Eiger in 1858.

As the dates of his life on earth bear witness, he was a man “from another era”, even in his relationship with the mountains. Born into a distinguished and wealthy family (he was the nephew of Quintino Sella), his grandfather was his first mentor in mountaineering: it was he who, at the age of thirteen, introduced him to the Matterhorn from avantage point in the Biella Alps.