The routes

Stairway to Heaven was established with 10mm bolts, meaning that 8 quickdraws, a single rope and cordlette are all you need to repeat it. All the belay stations are equipped with maillon rapide for the abseils, but you’ll need to...

A splendid icefall, physical and unrelenting. Plenty of ice on the upper section, unlike the first lower section, where the little ice that forms tends to deteriorate fairly quickly.

New climb up the splendid North Face.

Vascello Fantasma in Valle del Ferro climbs up an excellent quality rock face in a particularly remote and evocative corner of Val Masino, despite being clearly visible from the valley floor (and even from the San Martino webcam!). The route ascends...

The result is a quality climb, requiring good technique and footwork up the slightly overhanging face.

The first rock climb on this face

Via dei Cugini was established by Nadia, Enzo, and Ivan Tiraboschi in the summer of 1990 on the north-west face of Pizzo Arera in the Orobic Prealps. The route has been fully re-equipped for alpine sport climbing, with bolts along...

Fantastic line of ice and mixed climbing up the fore-summit of Mount Stanislao peak above Lake Zancone in Valle Trona.

Via Napoleone is an alpine climb in Val Torrone (SO), above Val Masino, established ground-up past the most obvious lines of weakenss.