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The World About Us: Cerro Torre: Rape of a Mountain?

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Cerro Torre in Patagonia has defied the world's top climbers, but Italian Cesare Maestri has twice claimed to have reached the summit. A British team on the mountain in 1971 question his use of mechanical aids when climbing. To them, he is more engineer than mountaineer.

Contributors

Narrator:
Frank Windsor
Subject:
Cesare Maestri
Presented by:
Jenny Cropper
Series Editor:
Anthony Isaacs
Series Editor:
Christopher Parsons
Source: Radio Times

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