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Trento Film Festival
At 91 years of age, the disappearance of a great man of the mountain: he was the first to cross the 16 central peaks of the Brenta alone, in less than 24 hours.
Tuesday 19 January 2021 3 minutes reading time
A giant of mountaineering and more. Cesare Maestri, the pioneer of the sixth grade, nicknamed the "spider of the Dolomites", died today. At 91, a really important figure for the entire mountain sector leaves, as his son Gian announced on social media. “This time Cesare signed the summit book of the climb on his life. A big hug to those who loved him ".
Maestri's fame was linked in particular to the Pale Mountains, the eastern Dolomites, and the Brenta Dolomites where in a few years, between 1952 and 1956, he had completed an incredible series of downhill and solo routes. He was the first to cross the 16 central peaks of the Brenta in less than 24 hours, but his name is also linked to Cerro Torre, in Patagonia, one of the most difficult mountains in the world.
The first expedition, carried out in 1959 together with Toni Egger, ended tragically with the death of his companion. The veracity of the conquest of the summit was strongly questioned, so much so that Maestri himself, 11 years later, went back to the mountain opening what is now called "Compressor Route", due to the fact that the expedition used a compressor operated from a combustion engine. Maestri had to give up a few tens of meters from the top. A peak, however, made up of an ice mushroom that “sooner or later will fall, as he repeated also on the occasion of the presentation of the documentary dedicated to him made by the Trentino Alpine Guides.
As if to say that in reality he, on the top, had arrived there anyway. He talked about his exploits, but also his approach to the mountains, in several books and was a permanent presence in the most important meetings in the mountaineering environment, including the Trento Film Festival, which had awarded him the Golden Gentian for his career. He was an honorary member of the CAI and a Knight of the Republic and in 2012 he was awarded an honorary degree in Motor Sciences by the University of Verona.
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