Romolo Nottaris
Swiss mountain climber
Romolo Nottaris (born July 9, 1946, in Lugano, Switzerland) is a Swiss rock climber, mountaineer and documentary filmmaker. He was the first Swiss to climb an eight-thousander in alpine style, without supplementary oxygen, sherpas or fixed ropes.
Background
Nottaris was born in Lugano in 1946, the third of four children of a warehouse worker and housewife. His family loved the mountains and outdoors, and was introduced to the mountains at the age of six. At 14 he began guiding in the Alps, and later was a professional poker player in Geneva.
In the 1970s, Nottaris began collaborating with Radiotelevisione svizzera to create climbing documentaries. He would go on to make over twenty documentary films, covering expeditions to the Himalayas, Patagonia, Alaska and Antarctica.
In 1971 he was the only survivor of an avalanche on Mont Blanc, an experience which seriously affected him. He then turned to climbing in South America, making summits of Aconcagua, Chopicalqui and Huascaran.
In 1978, Nottaris organized the first expedition from Ticino to the Himalaya.
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