Count Ardito Desio (18 April 1897 – 12 December 2001) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer. Desio was born in Palmanova...

On the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 (led by Ardito Desio), Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit of K2, 8...

Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni, on the 1954 Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. Most ascents are made during July and August, typically the warmest...

American novelist, short story writer, and playwright(b. 1923) 2001 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and explorer (b. 1897) 2002 – Dee Brown, American...

concerning whether the official report written by the expedition's leader, Ardito Desio, gave a true picture of the expedition. That the climbers did indeed...

Antonio da Noli (1418–1496) Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1185–1252) Ardito Desio (1897–2001) Alfonso de Tonti (1659–1727) Enrico de Tonti (1649–1704)...

Italian cyclist Ardito Desio (1897, Palmanova – 2001), Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist and cartographer Andrea Ardito (born 1977, Viareggio)...

particular their exploration campaigns in Iraq. It was the explorer Ardito Desio who found oil in Libya and in 1939 came the so-called "Petrolibia operation"...

obvious choice for the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 led by Ardito Desio. With the older and more experienced Achille Compagnoni, Lacedelli was...

youngest participant of the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 organized by Ardito Desio. As Bonatti said afterward at the age of 80: It was the era when European...