Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.
Fosco Maraini (on the left)
Members of the Italian Gasherbrum IV expedition 1958, Maraini is standing, second from right.
Fosco Maraini, his wife Mieko Namiki and Kurt Diemberger.
Gasherbrum IV, originally surveyed as K3, is the 17th highest mountain on Earth and the 6th highest in Pakistan, as well as the highest independent mountain under eight thousand metres in Pakistan.
Gasherbrum IV's West Face, seen from Baltoro Glacier
Walter Bonatti on the Gasherbrum IV summit during first ascent in 1958
Left to right: Gasherbrum IV, VII, V, VI