Oreste Squinobal
Male, Deceased Person
1943 – 2004
Who was Oreste Squinobal?
Oreste Squinobal, from Gressoney-Saint-Jean, was an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer.
Together with his brothers Arturo and Lorenzo, he placed first in the mountain guides team category in the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama edition, which was carried out as the first World Championship of Skimountaineering.
He took part in several mountain tours, many of them outside of the Aosta Valley, worthy of mention his winter ascents on the Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, further expeditions in Turkey, Greece and in the Himalayas. In May 1982, he climbed to an altitude up to 8,598 meters without supplemental oxygen, to the summit of the Kangchenjunga.
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