MOUNTAINEER

Riccardo Cassin

1909 - 2009

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Riccardo Cassin (2 January 1909 – 6 August 2009) was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall climbing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Riccardo Cassin has received more than 57,909 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Riccardo Cassin is the 31st most popular mountaineer (up from 33rd in 2019), the 3,136th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,077th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Mountaineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Riccardo Cassin ranks 31 out of 56. Before him are Anatoli Boukreev, Krzysztof Wielicki, Jon Krakauer, Peter Habeler, Fanny Bullock Workman, and Erhard Loretan. After him are Rob Hall, Ardito Desio, Ueli Steck, Vittorio Sella, Yevgeniy Abalakov, and Verney Lovett Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Riccardo Cassin ranks 212. Before him are André Clot, Guillermo León Valencia, Eva Justin, Phoumi Vongvichit, Christophe Soglo, and Eric Ambler. After him are Marcel Balsa, Ștefan Dobay, Adalbert Deșu, Ferenc Fejtő, Irakli Abashidze, and Tewhida Ben Sheikh. Among people deceased in 2009, Riccardo Cassin ranks 183. Before him are Betsy Blair, Dom DeLuise, Tomislav Crnković, Marilyn French, Venetia Burney, and Hans Klenk. After him are Péter Bacsó, Edward Woodward, Gene Barry, Henry Gibson, Willem Johan Kolff, and Shi Pei Pu.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Riccardo Cassin ranks 3,136 out of 5,161. Before him are Antonio Scarpa (1752), Franco Donatoni (1927), Francesco Contarini (1566), Ettore Messina (1959), Renato Cesarini (1906), and Scilla Gabel (1938). After him are Costante Girardengo (1893), Antonio Maria Vegliò (1938), Zenobius of Florence (337), Jacqueline Felice de Almania (1300), Claudio Gugerotti (1955), and Marco Girolamo Vida (1485).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Italy

Among mountaineers born in Italy, Riccardo Cassin ranks 5. Before him are Reinhold Messner (1944), Walter Bonatti (1930), Achille Compagnoni (1914), and Lino Lacedelli (1925). After him are Ardito Desio (1897), Vittorio Sella (1859), and Simone Moro (1967).

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