Arturo Squinobal

{{Short description|Italian mountain climber, mountain guide, and ski mountaineer}}

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Arturo Squinobal or Arthur SquinobalHis name appears sometimes in French due to bilingualism in the Aosta Valley: cf. [https://www.lovevda.it/fr/base-de-donnees/2/culture/gressoney-saint-jean/la-mythique-paroi-ouest-du-cervin/79190 La mythique paroi ouest du Cervin], [https://www.gazzettamatin.com/2022/08/08/gli-appuntamenti-della-settimana-valle-daosta-202208072213038359/ Wohnplatz (Gressoney-Saint-Jean) - Incontro con Arthur Squinobal]. (born 16 November 1944) is an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide of Monte Rosa and ski mountaineer from Gressoney-Saint-Jean. He is also director of the skiing school in his hometown.[http://www.scuolascigressoney.net/scheda_maestro.asp?id=1 Arturo Squinobal] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406024752/http://www.scuolascigressoney.net/scheda_maestro.asp?id=1 |date=April 6, 2010 }}, Scuola di Sci di Gressoney-Saint-Jean.

Together with his brothers Oreste and Lorenzo, he placed first in the mountain guides team category in the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama edition, which was carried out as the first World Championship of Skimountaineering. Together with Lorenzo and Danilo Barell he also won the 1978 Trofeo Mezzalama in the same category.{{Cite web|date=2017-08-09|title=|url=http://www.old.inalto.org/magazine/trofeo_mezzalama_2005_04.shtml|access-date=2021-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809172431/http://www.old.inalto.org/magazine/trofeo_mezzalama_2005_04.shtml|archive-date=2017-08-09}}

Together with his brother Oreste he made he first winter ascent of the South Face of Matterhorn (23 December 1971), the first winter ascent of the Peuterey Integral (26 December 1972, together with Yannick Seigneur, Michel Feuillarade, Marc Galy, and Louis Audoubert), and the first winter ascent of the West Face of Matterhorn (11 January 1978, together with Rolando Albertini, Marco Barmasse, Innocenzo Menabreaz, Leo Pession, Augusto Tamone).

Oreste and Arturo Squinobal's story is told in "[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54322118-brothers-of-the-mountains Brothers of the Mountains]".