{{Short description|Italian mountaineer and explorer}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2024}} [[File:Carlo Mauri 1960s5.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Carlo Mauri in Italy in the 1960s]] '''Carlo Mauri''' (25 March 1930 – 31 May 1982) was an Italian [[Mountaineering|mountaineer]] and [[explorer]]. Mauri was born in [[Lecco]]. Among his early climbs in the [[Alps]] two stand out: the first winter ascent of the ''via Comici'' route on the northern face of [[Cima Grande di Lavaredo]]; and the first solitary ascent of the ''Poire''<!--a route or a peak? "via della Poire" in http://www.intotherocks.splinder.com/archive/2007-05 suggests the latter--> of [[Mont Blanc]].<!--dates of both climbs should be checked and added--> Numerous expeditions abroad followed. In 1956 he reached the summit of [[Monte Sarmiento]] in [[Tierra del Fuego]] and in 1958, as a member of [[Riccardo Cassin]]’s expedition in [[Karakorum]], he and [[Walter Bonatti]] made the first ascent of [[Gasherbrum IV]] (7,925 m).<!--see http://www.cassin.it/riccardo.htm for more-->
In 1969, and again in 1970, he was a member of [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s expedition which crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[Thor Heyerdahl#Boats Ra and Ra II|''Ra I'' and ''Ra II'']], [[Boat|vessels]] made of [[papyrus]]. Following the Ra expeditions, Mauri took part in many others including following the route of [[Marco Polo]] in the Asian [[steppes]] and exploring [[Patagonia]] and the [[Amazon River|Amazon]]. He also made several documentary films of his travels, some of them produced for the Italian state broadcaster [[RAI]]. Again with Heyerdahl he took part in the [[Thor Heyerdahl#Tigris|''Tigris'' expedition]] of 1977. He was a member of the “Gruppo Ragni Grignetta di Lecco” climbers group. After an accident where he suffered a broken leg, Mauri became the first Italian to undergo [[Gavril Ilizarov]]'s bone-lengthening operation, [[distraction osteogenesis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mauriziocatagni.it/?page_id=42 |author=Roberto Cattaneo |title=DA ILIZAROV ALL’A.S.A.M.I. - Una storia lunga 20 anni |accessdate=27 March 2017 |archive-date=28 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328020410/http://www.mauriziocatagni.it/?page_id=42 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He died at Lecco in 1982.
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