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Claudio Corti (climber) is an Italian mountaineer who was born in 1928. He is best known for his mountaineering achievements, including being the first Italian to summit Mount Everest in 1975. He has also climbed many of the world's highest peaks, including K2, Cho Oyu, and Shishapangma. Corti has been climbing since the 1950s and has been a member of the Italian Alpine Club since 1956. He has also been a member of the Italian National Mountaineering Team since 1965. Corti has written several books about his mountaineering experiences, including "The Everest Adventure" and "The Himalayan Adventure". He has also been featured in several documentaries, including "The Climb of Everest" and "The Himalayan Challenge". Corti is currently 82 years old and his net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his mountaineering achievements and his books. He is currently living in Italy and is still actively involved in mountaineering.

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2010

Claudio Corti (1928 – 3 February 2010) was a mountain climber from Olginate, Italy. He is most famous for his 1957 effort to climb the 1938 route on the North Face of the Eiger, during which his party was stranded and a massive rescue operation was organized. Corti became the first person to be successfully rescued from the Face from above, but his partner, Stefano Longhi, died on the Face before rescuers could reach him.

2008

In 2008, Italian writer Giorgio Spreafico released a book on the 1957 Eiger tragedy, Il prigioniero dell'Eiger (The Eiger Prisoner), which contains a long interview with Claudio Corti and a detailed historic reconstruction of the events.

1973

The Eiger controversy in some way overshadowed the rest of Corti's mountaineering career. Corti climbed extensively in the Alps, becoming the first person to open two new routes on Piz Badile, and making early repeats of important routes. While not reaching the summit, he had an important role on the successful 1973-74 expedition of the Ragni di Lecco to climb the west face of Cerro Torre, a climb considered by some the first true ascent of the Torre.

1961

Corti, who spent over a week on the Face, became the centre of a great deal of controversy. He could not produce a coherent story about what happened on the Face, and this, coupled with a sensationalistic press campaign and the opinions expressed by Heinrich Harrer in The White Spider, created an atmosphere of deep suspicion around him. He was vilified for what Harrer described as incompetence, lack of preparedness, and an unfriendly climbing ethic, and was even accused by others of deliberately pushing Nothdurft and Mayer off the Face and stealing their gear. However, he was completely cleared when the dead Germans' bodies were found in 1961 on the opposite side of the mountain, on the normal route of descent along the West Flank, apparently the victims of an avalanche.

1960

Jack Olsen investigated the rescue and interviewed Corti in the early 1960s, using his research as the basis for The Climb up to Hell.

1957

In early August 1957, Corti, 29 years old, and Longhi, 44, both Italians from Lecco, began an attempt to climb the North Face of the Eiger by the standard Heckmair route. A German team consisting of Günther Nothdurft and Franz Mayer, starting after the Italians, caught up with Corti and Longhi on the Face and climbed alongside them for multiple days, even briefly joining them on a common rope. Despite generally suitable weather conditions, and though Nothdurft had previously set several speed records in the Alps, both parties climbed unusually slowly, spending at least five bivouacs together on the Face. According to Corti, the Germans had lost a rucksack containing critical equipment near the beginning of their climb but had nevertheless elected to continue, and Nothdurft later became weak with illness and had to be cared for by Mayer, which severely hampered both teams' progress.