{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Short description|Italian mountaineer (1975–2021)}} {{Infobox person | name = Cala Cimenti | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Carlalberto Cimenti | birth_date = 14 February 1975 | birth_place = Turin, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|02|08|1975|02|14}} | death_place = Susa Valley, Italy | other_names = | spouse = Erika Siffedri | occupation = Mountaineer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Carlalberto "Cala" Cimenti''' (14 February 1975 – 8 February 2021) was an Italian mountaineer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nonsolocontro.eu/nsc2/prima-cintura/leini/705-un-successo-la-corrida-2021.html|title=L'incontro con Carlalberto "Cala" Cimenti|date=6 February 2019|work=NonSoloContro|language=Italian|access-date=9 February 2021|archive-date=22 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322192838/https://www.nonsolocontro.eu/nsc2/prima-cintura/leini/705-un-successo-la-corrida-2021.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Biography== A child prodigy of mountaineering, Cimenti climbed Mont Blanc with his father at age 12. In 2015, he became the first Italian to win a Snow Leopard award. He also climbed Cho Oyu, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri I, Nanga Parbat and Gasherbrum VII, where he saved the life of his friend, fellow mountaineer and former rugby player {{ill|Francesco Cassardo|it}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/07/04/news/nanga_parbat_cala_cimenti-230287913/|title=Nanga Parbat, il torinese Cala Cimenti arriva in vetta. Momenti di paura durante la discesa con gli sci|date=4 July 2019|work=La Repubblica|language=Italian}}</ref>
Six days before his 46th birthday, Cimenti was killed by an avalanche in the Susa Valley with his friend, Patrick Negro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alpinistiemontagne.gazzetta.it/2021/02/08/chi-e-carlaberto-cala-cimenti/|title=Chi è Carlaberto Cala Cimenti|date=8 February 2021|work=Alpinisti e Montagne|language=Italian}}</ref> He had been married to Erika Siffedri since 2018 and had a book published in 2020, titled ''Sdraiato in cima al mondo''.
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