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Giusto Gervasutti

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Together with other well known climbers of the time he climbed the most difficult and sought-after faces in the Western Alps. His first notable success was the first repetition of Karl Brendelet's and Hermann Schaller's difficult climb on the south ridge route of the
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in 1934, he climbed some five-thousanders. In 1936, he made the first winter solo ascent of the Hörnli ridge of the
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in 1938. His masterpiece was the first ascent of the difficult east wall of the
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one year after them. Further he completed some first ascents of reliefs in the
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Gervasutti, also known as "Il Fortissimo" ("the strongest"), was born in
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Gervasutti died in a mountaineering accident on the
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Cervignano del Friuli
Mont Blanc du Tacul
Ski Club Torino
mountain climber
Alpini
skier
Cervignano del Friuli
Turin
university
Aiguille Noire de Peuterey
Dauphiné Alps
Pic d'Olan
Ailefroide
Chile
Matterhorn
Picco Gugliermina
Gabriele Boccalatte
Grandes Jorasses
Giuseppe Gagliardone
World War II
Ski Club Torino
Trofeo Mezzalama
Paula Wiesinger
Mont Blanc du Tacul


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