Yasushi Yamanoi, the Piolet d'Or 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award video
The video portrait of 56-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi who was awarded with the 13th Piolets d'Or Carrière 2021 at the end of November at Briançon in France.
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During the Piolets d'Or awards ceremony at the end of November, 54-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Officially named the Walter Bonatti award, Yamanoi is now the 13th alpinist to receive the prize after Walter Bonatti, Reinhold Messner, Doug Scott, Robert Paragot, Kurt Diemberger, John Roskelley, Chris Bonington, Wojciech Kurtyka, Jeff Lowe, Andrej Štremfelj, Krzysztof Wielicki and Catherine Destivelle.
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