Alberto María de Agostini
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Father Alberto María De Agostini (2 November 1893 – 25 December 1960) born in Pollone, Piedmont was an Italian missionary of the Salesians of Don Bosco order as well as a passionate mountaineer, explorer and geographer. He visited Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia between Chile and Argentina, where he was the first person to climb several mountain peaks and discover others, some named after him. In addition he has left behind 22 books and written works in Italian, German and Spanish, and hundreds of beautiful photographs of the places he explored. He died in Turin on Christmas Day, 1960.
There is now a national park in the west part of Tierra del Fuego named after him.
