A thought for Walter Bonatti. We asked some alpinists to send us their thoughts in memory of Walter Bonatti, who passed away yesterday aged 81. These are thoughts jotted down instinctively, from the ...

Last night Walter Bonatti passed away. He was 81 years old and one of the greatest legends of alpinism of all times. The great family of alpinists has lost a father today. Last night Walter Bonatti ...

Walter Bonatti, one of the world’s greatest mountaineers, who pioneered some of the most difficult and breathtaking climbs on the earth’s tallest mountains, often alone, died Tuesday in Rome. He was ...

Italy's legendary mountaineer Walter Bonatti, seen here in 2008 and who staged some of the most technically difficult climbs in history, died in Rome at the age of 81, media reports said Italy's ...

Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineering: K2, Drus, G4, Matterhorn, to name a few. But the summits reached are not points of arrival, they ...

Legendary Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti, who staged some of the most technically difficult climbs in history, has died in Rome at the age of 81, media reports said. Bonatti, who was also a ...

Walter Bonatti, who has died aged 81, was regarded as one of the 20th century’s greatest climbers and won belated recognition for his contribution for the first ascent to the summit of K2, the world’s ...

Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer who became a vilified figure in one of the most enduring controversies in his sport — his role in the first successful ascent of K2, the world’s ...

Before I started climbing mountains, I started reading about climbing mountains. Walter Bonatti, who died Sept. 13 at 81, was one of those guys I looked up to, this iconic alpinist doing what he did ...