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The alpine community has lost a giant. Walter Bonatti died of cancer last night. He was eighty-one. Perhaps the finest alpinist there has ever been. -Doug Scott Walter Bonatti is gone. After eight decades of life the Italian climber passed away in Rome. Born on June 22, 1930 in Bergamo in Italy Bonatti burst onto the climbing stage at the age of eighteen with the fourth ascent of the north face of the Grandes Jorasses (4208m), one of the great north faces of the Alps. Three years later he made the first
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Lino Lacedelli, the Italian mountaineer who made the first ascent of K2, died November 20 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where he had lived his entire life. He was 83 years old. Lacedelli's ascent of K2 with Achille Compagnoni on July 31, 1954 and the ensuing decades-long controversy often overshadows his career as a daring rock specialist and member of the Cortina Squirrels climbing club. Born in Cortina, Italy, in the heart of the Dolomites, Lacedelli made his first climbs as a young teenager and quickly
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