Expedition Museum
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Language: English / USA
The Expedition Museum is a museum located in Lenno, Italy, which is located inside a historic villa: Villa Balbianello. Inside the museum, collections of objects and artefacts from Monzino's exploration expeditions around the world are on display.
In fact, you should know that his greatest passion was travel and mountaineering. He completed 21 expeditions on five continents, including 9 among the ice of Greenland. Consider that he was the first Italian mountaineer to reach the summit of Everest, in 1973, and the only one to have reached the North Pole by sled. He left equipped with 14 sleds pulled by 180 dogs, accompanied by 22 Eskimo guides.