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  1. Walter Bonatti ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈvalter boˈnatti]; 22 June 1930 – 13 September 2011) was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist.

  2. Walter Bonatti ( Bergamo, 22 giugno 1930 – Roma, 13 settembre 2011) è stato un alpinista, esploratore, giornalista, scrittore e fotoreporter italiano . Soprannominato « il re delle Alpi » [1] [2], è stato una delle figure più eminenti dell'alpinismo mondiale.

  3. Sep 16, 2011 · Walter Bonatti was a legendary climber who soloed the Petit Dru in 1955 and survived a near-fatal attempt on K2 in 1954. Read his interview by David Roberts and his obituary in the New York Times.

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  4. A MOUNTAIN HOUSE OVERLOOKING MONT BLANC. Rifugio Bonatti can be reached in a little over an hour from Val Ferret by traversing larch woods and alpine meadows. It’s set at the foot of the Grandes Jorasses, directly opposite magnificent Fréboudze glacier.

  5. Sep 16, 2011 · Walter Bonatti, one of the worlds greatest mountaineers, who pioneered some of the most difficult and breathtaking climbs on the earth’s tallest mountains, often alone, died Tuesday in...

  6. Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face ...

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  8. Oct 3, 2011 · Walter Bonatti, who died Sept. 13 at 81, was one of those guys I looked up to, this iconic alpinist doing what he did... Before I started climbing mountains, I started reading about climbing ...