Luigi Carrel
Luigi (Louis)[1] Carrel aka Carrellino (1901–1983) was an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer.
Biography[]
Carrel was the son of the mountain guide and his wife Joséphine Pellissier. He was born in Crétaz (pron. creta) and later moved to Cheneil, two villages of Valtournenche. In 1933 he won the first Mezzalama Trophy, together with Valtournenche guides and Piero Maquignaz.
In 1932, he climbed together with Antoine Gaspard and Enzo Benedetti at first the south side of the Matterhorn, and together with and at first completely the Furggen ridge (Furggengrat) of the same mountain during World War II.[2]
He also took part in several expeditions to the Gran Paradiso and in the Dolomites as well as in South America, especially in the Patagonian region, where he climbed in the group of the Chilean Andes, on the Monte Fitz Roy and on the Cerro Torre.
His son Antonio is also an alpine guide.[3]
Literature[]
- Giovanni Zanetti: "Luigi Carrel. Una vita per l'Alpinismo", 2002
External links[]
References[]
- ^ His name is expressed in French too - see Neville Shulman, Climbing The Equator: Adventures In The Jungles And Mountains of Ecuador, p. 97. ; Mont Cervin (Larousse.fr) ; Jean-Antoine Carrel (Treccani.it)
- ^ Breuil-Cervina, Der Mont Blanc - 4478 Meter (in German).
- ^ Giovanni Zanetti: Luigi Carrel — Una vita per la montagna (in Italian), Musumeci Editore, 2002.
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