Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi

Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, was an Italian mountaineer and explorer of the House of Savoy, born in Madrid on 29 January 1873 and also an admiral in World War I. He trained as a mountaineer on Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa from 1892, and in 1897 he made the first ascent of Mount Saint Elias, 5,489 metres, on the Canada and Alaska border. He is known for his Arctic explorations and for mountaineering expeditions particularly to Mount Saint Elias and K2. In his last years he created Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi in Italian Somalia, where he chose to die.