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Date: 28/08/1859
On 28 August 1859, Vittorio Sella was born in Biella; he was a mountaineer and photographer renowned for his unforgettable photographs of the Karakorum, the Caucasus and Alaska, and for the first ascent of Mount Elias (5,489 m) as part of an expedition led by Luigi Amedeo of Savoy.