Filip Babicz completes Ade Integrale, D15+ total dry deep in Gran Borna cave, Italy
On 26 November 2019 Filip Babicz completed Ade Integrale, a testing dry tooling route in the Gran Borna cave close to La Thuile in Valle d'Aosta, Italy. The Pole suggests D15+. The route is completely natural but, being total dry, climbs no ice whatsoever.
At the end of November Filip Babicz completed Ade Integrale, his mega total dry project in the Gran Borna cave close to La Thuile in Valle d’Aosta, Italy, that he had started in 2015. Born in Poland but resident in Italy, Babicz had climbed the first 30m section in 2018.
As mentioned, the climb is completely underground and it crosses the gigantic roof of the cave for 70 meters. Illuminated by a series of lights, Babicz climbed with ice axes and crampons for a full 46 minutes past 165 moves.
Babicz has put forward the grade D15+, making it slightly more difficult than his Uragano Dorato at Bus del Quai. Should the grade be confirmed, then this would settle in as one of the hardest total dry tooling routes in the world. Babicz points out that the entire route is on completely natural holds, something which is fairly uncommon for total dry routes of this difficulty.