The Archive "Ardito Desio" is a private collection consisting of a heterogeneous heritage of documents, books, photographs, cartographs, prints and personal objects that belonged and/or collected and preserved by the geologist Ardito Desio from Friuli. Chronologically it spans more than a century and before reaching Udine it was kept at the headquarters of the CAI in Rome and partly in the home of his daughter Maria Emanuela Desio, who in 2018 wanted to entrust it on loan to the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale.
The Archive has been declared of historical interest pursuant to D.L. 42/2004, art. 12-15 from the Superintendence of Archives of Lazio on 5 March 1999.
Ardito Desio was a geologist, explorer, researcher and academic. In Italy and in the world he was known for the scientific-mountaineering expedition on the Karakorum that in 1954 led to the conquest of K2. He was the protagonist of numerous expeditions in different parts of the world, in Africa, Asia, Antarctica, America.
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