Carlo Mauri
Illustration — Carlo Mauri in Italy in the 1960s Carlo Mauri (25 March 1930 – 31 May 1982) was an Italian mountaineer and explorer. Mauri was born in Lecco. Among his early climbs in the Alps two stand out: the first winter ascent of the via Comici route on the northern face of Cima Grande di Lavaredo; and the first solitary ascent of the Poire of Mont Blanc.
Carlo Mauri
Walter Bonatti · My scan from: Fosco Maraini, Gasherbrum IV, Leonardo Da Vinci ed. · Public domain
- Born
- 1930. · Rancio.
- Died
- 1982. · Lecco.
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- explorer, mountaineer, sailor, traveler and photographer.
- Fields
- climbing, travel and photography.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Illustration — Carlo Mauri in Italy in the 1960s Carlo Mauri (25 March 1930 – 31 May 1982) was an Italian mountaineer and explorer. Mauri was born in Lecco. Among his early climbs in the Alps two stand out: the first winter ascent of the via Comici route on the northern face of Cima Grande di Lavaredo; and the first solitary ascent of the Poire of Mont Blanc.
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Numerous expeditions abroad followed. In 1956 he reached the summit of Monte Sarmiento in Tierra del Fuego and in 1958, as a member of Riccardo Cassin’s expedition in Karakorum, he and Walter Bonatti made the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV (7,925 m). In 1969, and again in 1970, he was a member of Thor Heyerdahl's expedition which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in Ra I and Ra II, vessels made of papyrus. Following the Ra expeditions, Mauri took part in many others including following the route of Marco Polo in the Asian steppes and exploring Patagonia and the Amazon. He also made several documentary films of his travels, some of them produced for the Italian state broadcaster RAI. Again with Heyerdahl he took part in the Tigris expedition of 1977. He was a member of the “Gruppo Ragni Grignetta di Lecco” climbers group. After an accident where he suffered a broken leg, Mauri became the first Italian to undergo Gavril Ilizarov's bone-lengthening operation, distraction osteogenesis. He died in Lecco in 1982.
The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is climbing, travel and photography.
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1930
Carlo Mauri was born on 25 March 1930.
1982
Carlo Mauri died on 31 May 1982.
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- 1.Grande encyclopédie de la montagne. Erasme. 1746.
- 2.ch. « Dans les faces nord de Laveredo en hiver (1953) ».
- 3.ch. « Le Cerro Torre, un rêve évanoui (1958) ».
- 4.Reinhold Messner Cerro Torre La montagne impossible, Arthaud, Paris, 2009
- 5.ch. « La conquête du Gasherbrum IV (1958) ».
- 6.Walter Bonatti, À mes montagnes, Arthaud, Paris, 1987 chapitre « Seul à la Major »
- 7.Sylvain Jouty et Hubert Odier, Dictionnaire de la montagne, Omnibus, 2009 , article « Mauri (Carlo)»
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