Count Ardito Desio (18 April 1897 – 12 December 2001) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer. Desio was born in Palmanova...

On the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 (led by Ardito Desio), Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit of K2, 8...

Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni, on the 1954 Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. Most ascents are made during July and August, typically the warmest...

Antonio da Noli (1418–1496) Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1185–1252) Ardito Desio (1897–2001) Alfonso de Tonti (1659–1727) Enrico de Tonti (1649–1704)...

concerning whether the official report written by the expedition's leader, Ardito Desio, gave a true picture of the expedition. That the climbers did indeed...

American novelist, short story writer, and playwright(b. 1923) 2001 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and explorer (b. 1897) 2002 – Dee Brown, American...

particular their exploration campaigns in Iraq. It was the explorer Ardito Desio who found oil in Libya and in 1939 came the so-called "Petrolibia operation"...

Italian cyclist Ardito Desio (1897, Palmanova – 2001), Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist and cartographer Andrea Ardito (born 1977, Viareggio)...

obvious choice for the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 led by Ardito Desio. With the older and more experienced Achille Compagnoni, Lacedelli was...

Aimone led an expedition to Karakorum. A member of the expedition was Ardito Desio. Due to the failure to climb K2 twenty years earlier, Prince Aimone's...

youngest participant of the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 organized by Ardito Desio. As Bonatti said afterward at the age of 80: It was the era when European...

Robert D. Ballard 1996 – Sylvia A. Earle 1997 - Anna C. Roosevelt 1998 - Ardito Desio 1999 - Norman D. Vaughan 2000 - The Piccard family 2001 – Joseph W. Kittinger...

earliest descriptions of 'Pastore Peak as a trekking route was done by Ardito Desio in his 1956 book "Victory Over K2: Second Highest Peak in the World"...

supplemental oxygen Bonatti and Mehdi had brought them. Expedition leader Ardito Desio, in his final report, mentioned the forced bivouac only in passing. Mehdi's...

Lenzspitze (1870), Aiguille du Dru (1878); expeditions to the Caucasus Ardito Desio (1897–2001) Italy, geologist and leader of successful 1954 Italian Karakoram...

1997 1929 - Italian - Aimone di Savoia-Aosta Aimone di Savoia-Aosta and Ardito Desio, La Spedizione Geografica Italiana al Karakoram, 1936, (Yakushi S670)...

activity as a mountaineer and mountain guide. In 1953, he was summoned by Ardito Desio among the candidates to form the Italian expedition to attempt the first...

Colombo (1920–1984),  Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer Ardito Desio (1897–2001), Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer...

Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962) 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001) 1898 – Patrick Hennessy...

in 1955. The film documents the 1954 Italian expedition to K2, led by Ardito Desio, which saw the conquest of the K2 summit for the first time by Achille...

Plateau Rosa and the Matterhorn were chosen by the Italian Alpine Club and Ardito Desio as locations to prepare the famous 1954 K2 expedition, which included...

Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni in 1954, as part of the expedition led by Ardito Desio. The first Finn to have reached the summit was Veikka Gustafsson in 1994...

summit of K2 (8611 m) in 1954, in the expedition led by the geologist Ardito Desio. Reinhold Messner was the first man in the world to reach the 14 summits...

expedition that made the first ascent of K2 in the Karakoram in 1954, but Ardito Desio, the chief expedition leader for the Italian Alpine Club, preferred not...

Iozzia; Scientists and engineers, e.g. Via Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, Via Ardito Desio, Via Felice Ippolito, Via Giuseppe Gabrielli, Via Giulio Natta, Via Caterina...

measuring K2, Gasherbrum I & Gasherbrum II from China side led by Professor Ardito Desio. 1989 – Guided Trekking group on Biafo Hispar Glacier. 1990 – Expedition...

and trades union official. Josef Bican, 88, Austrian-Czech footballer. Ardito Desio, 104, Italian explorer, geologist, and cartographer. Berit Granquist...

1868–1969 100 French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer Ardito Desio 1897–2001 104 Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist and cartographer...

the School of Excellence of the University of Udine. [citation needed] Ardito Desio Primo Carnera Udinese Calcio L'istituto comunale, provinciale di Toppo...

K2, centered upon the conquest of K2 by the Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. He later filmed about one hundred of documentaries and more than thirty...