Gian Piero Motti

Biography

Gian Piero Motti, known as Giampiero (Turin, August 6, 1946 – Monastero di Lanzo, June 22, 1983), was an Italian mountaineer and writer.

In the early 1970s, a protest movement emerged within the alpine community between Turin and the Val d'Orco. Its leader was Gian Piero Motti, a brilliant and cultured mountaineer, member of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI), mountaineering instructor, and the first person to solo the Gervasutti Pillar of Mont Blanc du Tacul. A young man attuned to the creative energy emanating from France and the United States, Motti became the symbol of a new generation of mountaineers determined to break with the myth of heroic mountaineering still prevalent in Piedmont. The...