Walter Bonatti

✶June 22, 1930

†September 13, 2011

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About their life

Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent.

Italian mountaineer (1930–2011)

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Biography from the article Walter Bonatti on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.