Ardito Desio
Ardito Desio (born April 18, 1897 in Palmanova , Italy , † December 12, 2001 ) was an Italian explorer , mountaineer , geologist and cartographer .
Desio carried out some geological surveys in Libya from 1926 to 1940 . He and others were the first to find oil in this country. In 1954 he led an expedition which made mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni the first to climb the K2 on July 31 . In 1990 Desio founded a research station on Mount Everest . He died in 2001 at the age of 104.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ardito Desio in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ardito Desio in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Personal folder for Ardito Desio (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
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| SURNAME | Desio, Ardito |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian explorer, mountaineer, geologist and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palmanova , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2001 |