Silvio Mondinelli

Silvio Mondinelli (born 1958) is an Italian climber who in 2007 became the 13th person to climb the 14 eight-thousanders, the sixth to do so without supplemental oxygen and the first mountaineer to climb both the Seven Summits and all 14 eight-thousanders. Broad Peak was the last peak he conquered. In five months of 2001 he climbed four 8,000-metre peaks, Everest, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II and Dhaulagiri, and on 25 July 2004 he reached the summit of K2 and declared the success of the K2 2004, 50 years later expedition. He has rescued other climbers, often risking the success of his own expedition, and with a team of mountaineers, climbers and researchers he founded High Mountain University in Alagna Valsesia in Piedmont. He is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.