Roberto Piantoni

Machine-translated from the Italian article

Roberto Piantoni, also known by the pseudonym Roby (Colere, 2 June 1977 – Shishapangma, 14 October 2009), was an Italian mountaineer. Roberto was born in Colere in the Valle di Scalve, the son of Fulvia and the mountaineer Livio, who died on 14 July 1981 on the Pucajirca. At 15 he climbed the Via Denise on the Presolana, opened by his father 17 years earlier, and became a mountain guide in 2003.