Climbers from Italy

References

[1] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/ciao-cristian-brenna-brilliant-italian-climbing-star.html

[2] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/cristian-brenna-onsights-his-one-hundredth-8a.html

Very early female 8a ascentionist and competition climber.

Ken Wilson writing in Mountain Magazine:

Of all the great alpine climbers of that exciting decade prior to the Second World War, Riccardo Cassin stands out as the most distinguished. His three outstanding North Face climbs on the Grandes Jorasses, the Cima Ovest and the Piz Badile marked him out as an alpinist of the highest calibre. They formed the corner-stone of the career of one of the greatest climbers of our time. [3]

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CSR0WreDWZ9/

[2] Obituary by Ed Douglas for The Guardin, 2009 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/aug/13/obituary-riccardo-cassin

[3] Mountain 22 (1972), page 32 /library/9626/mountain-22

[4] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/alpinism/goodbye-riccardo-cassin.html

Comici was the major figure of interwar Italian rock climbing, pioneering an astonishing series of new routes in the Dolomites. He took up climbing relatively late at 26 years old after ten years of exploratory caving and working in the docks. He applied the rope-work skills he had thus acquired and the physical conditioning from his work to climbing and progressed rapidly. Comici introduced or popularised the use off double ropes and rope stirrups (etriers). His fame allowed him to open a climbing school in 1932, including Riccardo Cassin amongst his pupils. Comici supported the Fascist government of Mussolini and was supported by them on lecture tours. He died on a local training cliff in an accident related to an old frayed rope.

References

[1] https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos/a.270388289694020/3467957563270394

[2] https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos/a.270388289694020/3428911903841627

[3] https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos/a.270388289694020/3402200859846065

[4] https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos/a.270388289694020/3378176785581806

[5] https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos/a.270388289694020/867243840008459

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u69RdfqytM

[7] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/classic_alpinism_-_emilio_comici-4782

[8] David Smart. Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites. Canada: RMB Rocky Mountain Books, 2020.