Italy

A poet and humanist born in Arezzo in 1304, author of a letter describing an ascent of Mont Ventoux dated 26 April 1336.

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

Sacerdote di Saint-Vincent, scopritore della sorgente minerale del paese il 20 luglio 1770.

Mountaineer and pioneer of Italian ski mountaineering.

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

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.

Jean-Joseph Maquignaz's mountaineering career has a striking beginning: he is a member of Jean-Antoine Carrel's team, committed to finding an Italian route to the Matterhorn, in competition with Englishman Edward Whymper, who is pursuing the first absolute ascent.

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.

Simone Moro, an Italian mountaineer, was born in Bergamo on 27 October 1967.