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Famed Italian climber and author Walter Bonatti will be honored at this years Piolet d Or festivalin Coumayeur, Italy on April 24. The golden axe is an annualmountaineering award given by French magazine Montagnes and The Groupede replica Cartier w20096y1 watch Haute Montagne since 1991. Seventy-eight-year-old Bonatti willreceive the first Piloet dOr awarded for lifetime achievements.Between1949 and 1965 Bonatti set the bar for difficult mountaineering climbs.He first came onto the scene with an ascent of the north face ofGrandes Jorasses, a technical high-alpine climb in the Alps.
In 1951,he sent the east face of the Grand Capucin, which was then the mosttechnical route in the Western Alps. Nineteen fifty four saw Bonattishuttling oxygen bottles up for climbers attempting a first ascent ofK2 . After he was hit by a storm, he and a Sherpa were forced to openbivy at 26,600 feet. Both survived and the team attained the firstascent. Bonattis most remarkable first ascent came in 1958 when he anda team climbed the 26,001-foot replica Cartier w26015k2 watch Gasherbrum IV in Pakistan, then and nowone of the worlds hardest peaks.Bonattiretired from difficult climbing at the age of 35 after one of hisclosest friends, Andrea Oggioni, and four other French climbers diedduring a seven day siege on Mont Blanc. He has since travelled theworld photographing mountains, writing books, speaking and climbing easier peaks. --Kyle Dickman
