Pacifico Pession

During the southern winter of 1957-1958, a great expedition organized and financed by the Italian Guido Monzino arrived at the foot of the Paine Grande. The group of mountaineers was mainly composed of guides from Valle d'Aosta. It was on December 27 that Bich and Carrel's rope, followed by another support formed by Gobbi, Pellissier and Pession, could attempt the final assault. Although the conditions were very bad, the climbers managed to climb the eastern wall and reach the summit. The other objective of this expedition was to climb the famous towers. Faced with the difficulties encountered on the Central and Sur towers, the climbers fell back on the third, the Norte. The summit was reached by Bich and Pession on 16 January 1958. She then took the name Torre Guido Monzino.

Route and conquests of the Peak of Paine and the North Tower of Paine by the Italian Expedition to the Patagonian Andes organized by Guido Monzino. A 1958 film by Guido Guerrasio.

This is the story, told by a journalist, of the first ascent of the Kanjut Sar I, in Karakorum in 1959 by the Valle d'Aosta guide Camillo Pellissier, member of one of an Italian expedition led by Guido Monzino and composed of 12 alpinists and 500 carriers carrying 22 tons of materials. The summit was reached on july 19 by Pellissier alone, who left camp 6 with Jean Bich who was stopped by gastric cramps. The film was directed by Guido Guerrasio and produced by Guido Monzino, the leader of the expedition.