Ragni route on Fitz Roy, first repeat by Matteo Della Bordella and David Bacci

Della Bordella attempted the route last year together with Luca Schiera, Silvan Schüpbach, Luca Gianola and Pascal Fouquet but the alpinists were forced to abandon their attempt after having climbed 750m. The "cumbre" has now been achieved via the same line ascended, with great determination and after six days on the mountain and some impossible bivies, by Ferrari and Meles in February 40 years ago.

At the time Casimiro Ferrari and Vittorio Meles formed part of the large Ragni di Lecco expedition which, together with Giovanni Arrigoni, Franco Baravalle, Guerrino Cariboni, Floriano Castelnuovo, Gian Luigi Lanfranchi, Giacomo Pattarini, Giani Stefanon and Amabile Valsecchi, finally completed the coveted line attempted previously by French, Swiss and Italian expeditions.

At present there are few details to go by, all that is known is that the two Ragni di Lecco alpinists, who have climbed together from Corsica all the way to Yosemite, were caught in a storm, endured a bivy until the storm abated, and then continued to the summit. What is certain is that, 40 years after the first ascent (hats off to the first ascentionists), this is another great chapter in Patagonian climbing.