Cesare Maestri

Acting

Cesare Maestri

Born — Died

1929-10-02 — 2021-01-19

Place of birth

Trento, Italy

Known for

Acting

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7 titles

Cesare Maestri, born October 2, 1929 in Trento and died January 19, 2021 in Tione di Trento in Trentino-Alto Adige, was a contemporary Italian mountaineer and writer. Cesare Maestri first studied theater and art history in Rome but returned to Trento to work as a guide and ski instructor. It begins to climb in the Brenta massif and then opens many routes, often solo, in this massif and in the Dolomites. Maestri was quickly nicknamed “the Spider of the Dolomites” (in Italian: Il Ragno delle Dolomiti). A disciple of Paul Preuss as far as “solo” and uninsured climbing is concerned, he was the first to climb a listed route in sixth degree alone and the first to descend to the same degree. But, …

Known for

Tartarino sulle Alpi poster
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Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tartarino sulle Alpi was broadcast by Rai, directed by Edmo Fenoglio, with Tino Buazzelli as the protagonist. The series was broadcast between 06/09/968 and 09/27/1968.

Tartarino sulle Alpi

1968

Cerro Torre - The Rape of a Mountain poster
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In 1971, a year after Maestri's ascent to Cerro Torre, filmmaker Leo Dickinson climbed and filmed an attempt on the Compressor Route. Dickinson left only a few pieces of clean protection at his highpoint (the headwall ice towers) and no additional fixed gear. While he and the rest of the team did not reach the summit, his reaction to the bolts on the Compressor Route compelled him to travel to Italy to interview Maestri. The result was this documentary.

Cerro Torre - The Rape of a Mountain

1972

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The story of a journey through the mountains of Africa, conceived and realised by Giorgio Moser, with mountaineer and writer Stefano Maestri. The journey of documentary filmmaker Moser and mountaineer Maestri, both born in Trento, goes up the continent's peaks following the trails of mythology and legends, without neglecting the ancient culture of the different populations they meet along the way

Le Montagne della Luce

1976

Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell poster
6.7

Movie about David Lama climbing the Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre for the first time free, a mountain that has been dubbed the most difficult to climb in the world.

Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell

2013

Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche poster
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In 1959, Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger are said to have been the first to climb the more than 3,000-metre-high granite needle of Cerro Torre. Egger had a fatal accident on the descent and Maestri was unable to prove that they had reached the summit. Reinhold Messner searches for the truth in this documentary.

Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche

2019

Sesto Grado Superiore poster
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Cesare Maestri demonstrates rock climbing technique by making an ascent in the Sella Group in the Dolomites. Maestri starts by climbing a fourth and fifth grade route. Then he progresses through a sixth grade rock face, and ends climbing a roof using aid climbing techniques. Maestri, nicknamed the 'Spider of the Dolomites' is known for his solo repeats in the Dolomites, as the first climber in the world to ascend the sixty-year walls, and for the controversial first ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia.

Sesto Grado Superiore

1960

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