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

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

Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker

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.