Mario Rigoni Stern

Mario Rigoni Stern (died 2008) was born in 1921 in Asiago, on the plateau of the same name, in the province of Vicenza. Entering the army mountaineering school in Aosta in 1938, he served with the Alpine troops in France, Greece, Albania and then Russia. Taken prisoner by the Germans after the armistice of September 1943, he escaped and made his way back to Italy at the end of the war. He then lived on the Asiago plateau, which he never left again, and died there in June 2008.

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