Pioneering Italian mountaineer
Cesare Maestri, nicknamed 'The Spider of the Dolomites', died
Tuesday aged 91.
Maestri's death was announced by his son Gian on Facebook.
"This time," he wrote, "Cesare has signed the summit book of the
climb of his life.
"A big hug to those who loved him".
A writer as well as climber, Maestri was born in Trento in the
far-northern Italian province of Trentino. He began climbing in
the Dolomites, where he repeated many famous routes, often
climbing them solo and free, and put up many new routes of the
hardest difficulty, for which he earned his 'Spider' nickname.
He became an alpine guide in 1952. His notable solos include the
Solleder route on the Civetta, the Solda-Conforto Route on the
Marmolada, and the southwest ridge of the Matterhorn in winter.
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