Ignazio Piussi
Acting
April 22, 1935
Died June 11, 2008 (73 years old)
Pezzeit, Val Raccolana, Italia
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Acting Credits
Biography
Ignazio Piussi, born on April 22, 1935, in Pezzeit in the Val Raccolana, Italy, is one of the great Italian mountaineers of the 1950-1970 generation. The youngest of ten children in a family where his grandfather Giuseppe and uncle Osvaldo were already local guides and mountaineers, he grew up surrounded by the mountains, working from a very young age on the family farm. Blessed with a powerful physique, he initially pursued competitive sports, practicing ski jumping and cross-country skiing wi...
