Evening on Guido Monzino And Greenland
After ten expeditions in just eleven years, to Guido Monzino, Greenland felt like his own backyard. A backyard seven times the size of Italy, with mountains almost 4,000 metres high and a gigantic icecap. This evening at the Auditorium Canneti, Vincenza, in memory of Guido Monzino, a series of film clips will be shown about mountaineering in Greenland. Presented by Cecilia Carreri, the evening's guest will be mountain guide Rinaldo Carrel, a member of Guido Monzino's expeditions to the North Pole in 1971 and to Mount Everest, when he was the first Italian to reach the peak, together with Mirko Minuzzo.
The films shown will be Cecilia Carreri's expedition across the Knud Rassmussen Glacier, Guido Monzino's 1962 expedition to the 77th parallel, and finally Monzino's victorious expedition to the North Pole in 1971.
Guido Monzino made ten expeditions to Greenland between 1960 and 1971, the year of the conquest of the North Pole, all documented in the precious books of Mario Fantin, the renowned photographer and cameraman who took part in those expeditions, and of Guido Monzino himself, published by Tamari, Bologna.
Also worth mentioning are the three expeditions by Kurt Diemberger in 1966, 1971 and 1974.
