Arturo Squinobal

Arturo Squinobal
Personal information
Born 16 November 1944

Arturo Squinobal (born 16 November 1944[1]) from Gressoney-Saint-Jean is an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer. He is also director of the skiing school in his hometown.[2]

Together with his brothers Oreste and Lorenzo, he placed first in the mountain guides team category in the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama edition, which was carried out as the first World Championship of Skimountaineering. Together with Lorenzo and Danilo Barell he also won the 1978 Trofeo Mezzalama in the same category.[3]

He took part in several mountain tours, many of them outside of the Aosta Valley, worthy of mention his winter ascents on the Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.[4]

References

  1. Arturo Squinobal, Scuola di Sci di Gressoney-Saint-Jean.
  2. Albo d'oro
  3. L’ultimo saluto a Squinobal grande guida alpina (Italian), la Sentinella, September 13, 2004.