On this day

Mountain history events that happened on 20 July

1. 1304 722 years ago

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   Francesco Petrarca is born

   A poet and humanist born in Arezzo in 1304, author of a letter describing an ascent of Mont Ventoux dated 26 April 1336.

   

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2. 1919 107 years ago

   

   Edmund Percival Hillary is born

   New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, one of the first two men, alongside Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Everest

   

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   Massimo Martini

3. 1930 96 years ago

   

   Andrea Oggioni is born is born

   

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