Category: Culture

Italy’s Iconic Mountaineer: Walter Bonatti

TORONTO – In an age where 91% of adolescents are perpetually tethered to their social media, the term “generation gap” has become virtually meaningless. There was a time however, in the pre-internet and pre-tv era, when teenagers not only ventured outside their front doors, but climbed mountains – literally. Enter the iconic Italian Mountaineer Walter Bonatti. In 1949 at the age of 19, he climbed one of the most challenging routes in the Alps, the Walker Spur Mountain