Romolo Nottaris

Romolo Nottaris (born July 9, 1946 in Lugano ) is a Swiss mountaineer , mountain guide and documentary writer. He lives in Lugano.

Life

Nottaris is one of the promoters of alpine style (i.e. renouncing bolts, fixed ropes, prepared bearings, bottled oxygen, carriers, other outside help). In 1978 he founded New Rock to sell outdoor gear. This allows him to finance his expeditions and to support some mountaineers like Ueli Steck and the Anthamatten brothers. In 1983 he organized his first expedition to the Himalayas . Nottaris returned to the Himalayas several times, especially with Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet . Alaska , Patagonia, and Antarctica are also regions in which he leads expeditions and produces documentaries.

Expeditions

• Aconcagua (6961 m), 1977
• Pumori (7161 m), 1978
• Makalu (8462 m), 1981
• Gasherbrum II (8035 m), 1981
• Makalu (8462 m), 1982 together with Jean Troillet (not on the summit because of bad weather)
• Mount McKinley (6190 m), 1982
• Mount Everest (8848 m), 1983 together with Jean Troillet (not on the summit because of bad weather)
• Makalu (8462 m), 1984
• Mount Epperly (4359 m), 1995 together with Erhard Loretan, Antarctica
• Pumori (7161 m), 2002 together with Erhard Loretan
• Cerro Torre (3128 m), 2006, as Cumbre in a documentary with Erhard Loreta
• Mount Vinson (4892 m), Antarctica
• Monte Sarmiento (2246 m), 2010

Works

• Pumori: ticinesi in Himalaya del Nepal , Agno, 1980
• Fascino dell'Himalaya: Makalu 8478 m, 1 tentativo invernale: Gasherbrum 2 8035 m , Agno, 1981 (with T. Zünd)
• Antartide: ancora una leggenda , ADV, 1993 (text by Gianni Caverzasio, photos by Romolo Nottaris)

Documentaries

• Cerro Torre Cumbre (Interview by Marco Pedrini , film with Fulvio Mariani) 1986
• Mountain bike: Aconcagua (7035 m) (film with Fulvio Mariani) 1989
• White-Out (Monte Epperly together with Erhard Loretan) 1996
• La danza della foca leopardo
• Tre passi nel regno del fantastico (with Gianluigi Quarti), 2005
• La magia del continente bianco (film with Fulvio Mariani), 2013

Web links

• Directory of the Swiss 7000 expeditions [4]
• Personal folder for Romolo Nottaris (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outdoor guide, winter 2012–2013, pp. 34–40 [1]
2. ↑ Le Temps , August 17, 2013 3
3. ↑ Outdoor Guide, Winter 2012–2013, pp. 34–40 [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Caffè, May 5, 2013 [3]
5. ↑ Alpinwiki archived copy ( memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Erhard Loretan and Jean Ammann: Den Bergen fell for , Paulusverlag, Freiburg 1996