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    Altitude Everest expedition. First ascent of Cerro Torre: In 1959, Cesare Maestri claimed he and Toni Egger [it] summited, but that Egger who had the...
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    in big wall aid climbing, with the creation of Cesare Maestri's Compressor Route on Cerro Torre. Maestri drilled an extreme amount of bolts into the famous...
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    and the first one to climb Mount Everest alone and without oxygen. Cesare Maestri conquered the Cerro Torre in Patagonia in 1959. Walter Bonatti is considered...
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    iconic big walls but also one of the most controversial as a result of Cesare Maestri's dubious 1959 ascent (disproven in 2015), and his 1970 densely-bolted...
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    Yosemite Decimal System, where climbs are rated from 5.0 to 5.9. 1952 : Cesare Maestri makes the first free solo of the 44-pitch Solleder Route on Monte Civetta...
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