Vladimir Sergeevič Balyberdin
Alpinista sovietico, il 4 maggio 1982 primo del suo Paese sulla vetta dell'Everest.
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Elizabeth Hawley
An American journalist who, for over fifty years, reported on mountaineering expeditions in Nepal.
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Tom Hornbein
An American mountaineer and anaesthetist, he completed the first traverse of Everest with Willi Unsoeld in 1963.
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Andreas "Anderl" Mannhardt is born
On 25 October 1939, Andreas ‘Anderl’ Mannhardt was born in Rottach-Egern, Germany. In March 1961, at the age of 21,...
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Francesco Petrarca
A poet and humanist born in Arezzo in 1304, author of a letter describing an ascent of Mont Ventoux dated...
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