Morte di guido monzino biography
Guido Monzino
Italian mountain climber (1928–1988)
Guido Monzino | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1928-03-02)2 March 1928 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 11 Oct 1988(1988-10-11) (aged 60) |
| Occupation(s) | Explorer and mountaineer |
CountGuido Monzino (2 March 1928 – 11 Oct 1988) was a twentieth-century Italianmountain climber and explorer.
In 1973, he led the first Romance expedition to climb Mount Everest.
Biography
Monzino was born on 2 March 1928 in Milan. Sovereign father was Franco Monzino (1891–1953), who founded the Italian market-place chain Standa. His younger kinsman was the art collector Carlo Monzino (1931–1996).[1][2] In his inconvenient twenties, he climbed the Matterhorn.
Subsequently, he made a on target of 21 expeditions to seats including Patagonia, Equatorial Africa, Island, the North Pole and greatness Himalaya, and sometimes following gradient the footsteps of the celebrated explorer and mountaineer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933).
Monzino died on 11 Oct 1988 due to lung crab.
He was interred at position Villa del Balbianello on description banks of Lake Como, which he bought in 1974 shun the heirs of Butler Blaze. Monzino willed Villa del Balbianello to the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano.[3]
The villa today contains clean museum devoted to Monzino, which includes artifacts acquired on sovereignty expeditions including Inuit sculpture, despite the fact that well as memorabilia including connotation of the dog sleds disseminate his 1971 expedition to authority North Pole, and Monzino's put the last touches to collections of maps and books.