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Count Guido Monzino (2 March 1928 – 11 October 1988) was a twentieth-century Italian mountain climber and explorer. In 1973, he led the first Italian expedition to climb Mount Everest.




Biography


Monzino was born on 2 March 1928 in Milan. His father was Franco Monzino (1891–1953), who founded the Italian supermarket chain Standa. His younger brother was the art collector Carlo Monzino (1931–1996). In his early twenties, he climbed the Matterhorn. Subsequently, he made a total of 21 expeditions to places including Patagonia, Equatorial Africa, Greenland, the North Pole and the Himalaya, and sometimes following in the footsteps of the famous explorer and mountaineer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933).
Monzino died on 11 October 1988 due to lung cancer. He was interred at the Villa del Balbianello on the banks of Lake Como, which he bought in 1974 from the heirs of Butler Ames. Monzino willed Villa del Balbianello to the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano.
The villa today contains a museum devoted to Monzino, which includes artifacts acquired on his expeditions including Inuit sculpture, as well as memorabilia including one of the dog sleds from his 1971 expedition to the North Pole, and Monzino's extensive collections of maps and books.




Expeditions


1955 West Africa – Senegal, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
1956 Western Alps in Italy and Switzerland – Grandes Murailles
1957–1958 Patagonian Andes – Torres del Paine, including the first ascent of the North Tower of Paine
1959 Karakoram mountain range, Pakistan – including the first ascent of Kanjut Sar I
1959–1960 Equatorial Africa – Kilimanjaro
1960 Western Greenland – 66th parallel north
1960–1961 Equatorial Africa – Mount Kenya
1961 Western Greenland – 74th parallel north
1961–1962 Equatorial Africa – Mountains of the Moon and Ruwenzori
1962 Western Greenland – 72nd parallel north by sled
1962 Western Greenland – 77th parallel north
1963 Eastern Greenland – Stauning Alps
1963–1964 Saharan Africa – Tibesti
1968 Western Greenland – a nautical expedition
1969 Western Greenland – Ilulissat to Qaanaaq by sled
1969 71st Italian expedition to the North Pole
1970 Qaanaaq to Cape Columbia
1970 Western Greenland, a nautical expedition
1971 Cape Columbia to the North Pole by sled
1973 Himalaya, Nepal – leader of the first Italian expedition to ascend Everest




References



"CIRCOLOPOLARE – l'esploratore Guido Monzino" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2007-10-05.
"CIRCOLOPOLARE – l'esploratore Guido Monzino". Archived from the original on 2007-10-07.
"Villa del Balbianello". Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano. Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-03-12.

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• Guido Monzino
• Lake Como
• Cordillera Paine
• Torres del Paine National Park
• Kanjut Sar
• Arno XI
• Villa del Balbianello
• Whymper tent
• Tibesti Mountains
• Deaths in October 1988