Cesare Maestri

Cesare Maestri
Maestri in 1969
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born(1929-10-02)2 October 1929
Died19 January 2021(2021-01-19) (aged 91)
Climbing career
Type of climberMountaineer
Known for"Spider of the Dolomites"

Cesare Maestri (2 October 1929 – 19 January 2021) was an Italian mountaineer and writer.

He was born in Trento in the Italian province of Trentino. He began climbing in the Dolomites, where he repeated many famous routes, often climbing them solo and free, and put up many new routes of the hardest difficulty, for which he was nicknamed the "Spider of the Dolomites".