WALTER BONATTI

WALTER BONATTI

WALTER BONATTI

COURMAYEUR MONT BLANC

“The mountains have taught me not to cheat, to be honest with myself and what I was doing.”

Walter Bonatti

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“The mountains have taught me not to cheat, to be honest with myself and what I was doing.”

Walter Bonatti

THE BEGINNING OF A UNIQUE STORY

THE MOUNTAINEER WHO TACKLED “IMPOSSIBLE” ROUTES

 

Years of climbing were the first step in tackling a life of exploration and research.

He wasn’t simply a great mountaineer – one of the greatest of all times; Bonatti’s uniqueness lies beyond the mountains, in his ability to carry on with his life afar from its uncertainties, trappings of success and the temptations of a world short of fairy tales.

Walter Bonatti

HIS FAVOURITE PEAKS

A STRONG BOND WITH THE MOUNTAINS

Bonatti’s inextricable bond with Courmayeur and the peaks of the Mont Blanc chain (amongst others) was created by both his successful accomplishments and those with a dramatic ending. Among these mountains he forged strong friendships with climbing partners and those who regularly haunted these sites at the foot of Mont Blanc. Indeed, it was from his friendship with the industrialist Pierre Sicouri that the hut bearing the name “Walter Bonatti” with great honour since 1998 was born

A crystal clear gaze

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