A great short climb in Cinque Torri, the Raponzole’s climb The Raponzole’s climb is one of the many beautiful climbs in the Cinque Torri area.In my opinion, it is truly a magnificent ascent, unjustly underclimbed. Despite the walls of Cinque Torri often being teeming with climbers, this route remains unknown to many. Via delle Raponzole …
The Caprioli Route A bolted route, the Caprioli Route, was opened in autumn 2021 by Simone Corte Pause “Scossa,” a member of the Caprioli Climbing Group, and my beloved niece, Eleonora Colli.The first four pitches were established from the bottom, while for the last two pitches, they chose to rappel from above to find better …
Climb the Los Angeles 84 is now more safe The Los Angeles 84 route, for those who are not familiar with it, is a magnificent climb on the south face of the Spalti del Col Bechei in the upper Val di Fanes, the gateway to the Kingdom of Fanes.Opened in the distant year of 1984 …
Wolkenreise on Cadini di Misurina: a wonderful bolted route Wolkenreise is the name chosen by the first ascensionists for this short but truly beautiful alpine sport climb that makes its way up the west face of Pilastro di Misurina in the Cadini Group of the Dolomites. It isn’t a new route, in fact it was established …
Cortina d’Ampezzo and sport climbing The many sport climbing rock faces around Cortina give climbing lovers around two thousand pitches to try out, a truly significant number and one which is growing thanks to the constant hard work and undoubted passion which has always been a feature of those working to provide climbers with a …
The superb limestone of Taghia OVERVIEW taghia rock climbingIn September 2009, I went to Morocco with my friends from the “Scoiattoli di Cortina” group (the Squirrel Group, one of the most famous climbing clubs in Italy). The purpose of our trip was to open a new route on one of the incredible walls of the …