"La Domenica del Corriere"_8

14th June 1953 - On 29 May 1953, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Everest Mount (8848 mt. above sea level) for the first time in history.
Cover by Walter Molino.

15th August 1954 - On 31st July 1954, Italian moutaineers Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli reached the summit of K2 (8611 mt. above sea level) for the first time in history.
Cover by Giorgio De Gaspari.

26th September 1954 - Symbolic cover for Italian mountaineers Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli and their K2 expedition.
Cover by Walter Molino.

19th September 1954 - Italian mountaineers Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli arriving in Milan after their K2 expedition.
Cover by Walter Molino.

4th September 1955 - In the mid-August of 1955, Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti climbs the vertical face of Petite Dru (3733 mt. above sea level), in the Mount Blanc massif in the French Alps.
Cover by Walter Molino.

25th March 1956 - On 7th March 1956, Italian mountaineers Clemente Maffei and Carlo Mauri reach the summit of Monte Sarmiento (2246 mt. above sea level), in the Chilean portion of Tierra del Fuego.
Cover by Walter Molino.

13th September 1903 - In Courmayer, inauguration of the monument dedicated to Italian mountaineer Felice Ollier, who died in the course of the North Pole expedition lead by legendary Italian explorer Prince Luigi Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta, Duke of Abruzzi, in 1900.
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

13th August 1950 - Four young people (two boys and two girls) are swept away by an avalanche in the Dolomites. Only a girl survived.
Cover by Giorgio De Gaspari.

31th March 1955 - The mother of Italian mountaineer Giuseppe Barenghi, who died in the course of a Himalaya expedition, reaches the place where her son died.
Cover by Walter Molino.

19th February 1956 - In a small mountain town near Caserta (Campania, Southern Italy) a boy is brought to the doctor by his parents through a snow storm.
Cover by Walter Molino.

28th July 1958 - A rock slide in the Pasubio (between Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto, Northern italy) sweeps away husband and wife in front of one of their children.
Cover by Walter Molino.

25th August 1957 - A Catholic nun shelters two little girls from a rock slide in Cima Caorina (Caorina peak) in Trentino (Northern Italy).
Cover by Giorgio De Gaspari.

1st December 1957 - Belgian businessman Willy Julinf died in the course of a hunting on Monte Spinale in the Brenta Dolomites (Trentino).
Cover by Walter Molino.

22nd March 1958 - A cableway for carrying wood hurt four people seriously in Val Venosta (Alto Adige).
Back cover by Walter Molino.

27th July 1958 - Three young Italian mountaineers fall down from the Presolana in the Bergamasque Prealps (Lombardy).
Back cover by Rino Ferrari.

21st September 1958 - A boy poisoned by toadstools is carried for about 1200 meters down the Rocciamelone in Val di Susa (Susa Valley, Piedmont).
Cover by Walter Molino.

17th May 1959 - The annual meeting of Alpini, this year in Milan.
Alpini are the elite mountain warfare military corps of the Italian Army.
Cover by Walter Molino.

9th August 1959 - A British mountaineer is swept away by an avalanche on Mount Blanc.
Cover by Rino Ferrari.

2th August 1959 - An elephant travels through the Hannibal's itinerary again.
Cover by Rino Ferrari.

29th November 1959 - Seven workers are killed by an avalanche in Livigno (Sondrio, Lombardy). The workers were tunnelling.
Cover by Walter Molino.

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Selected covers of Italian weekly newsmagazine La Domenica del Corriere.

Mountains and Mountaineering.

La Domenica del Corriere (The Sunday of Corriere) was a weekly newsmagazine whose first issue was published on 8th January 1899. Its name was after the eminent Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera (The courier of the evening). La Domenica del Corriere was the most popular Italian newsmagazine from its beginning to the 1960s.
Above: cover of the first issue, by Achille Beltrame, about a dramatic snow storm in Montenegro.

Achille Beltrame

Walter Molino
Italian graphics and painters Achille Beltrame (until the 1930s) and Walter Molino (from the late 1940s to the 1960s9 were the most popular authors of covers for La Domenica del Corriere.

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