Rise Slow - Rognon Vaudano
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Niccolò Bruni, Mountain Guide
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Niccolò Bruni
Rise Slow on Rognon Vaudano is a beautiful outing providing fairly continuous difficulties, almost entirely on cracks with some beautiful slab sections on superb rock – that beautiful red granite of Mont Blanc."
Reach Courmayeur and take the Skyway cable car to Punta Helbronner.
AccessThe approach is about 30-36 minutes from Punta Helbronner and the Torino mountain hut, following the trail that leads towards Aigille Marbrées, and then heading up towards the base of the peak. Rise Slow starts 40m to the left of Cric e Croc.
GPS coordinates Cric e Croc
DD: 45.859485, 6.943887
DMS: 45°51'34.1"N 6°56'38.0"E
UTM: 32T 340388 5080491
P1: 5c
P2: 6a (2 bolts)
P3: 6a+ (2 bolts)
P4: 6b (3 bolts)
P5: 5c (1 bolt)
Abseil down the route. The belays are equipped with 2 bolts, abseil rings and cord.
NotesWe decided to call the wall Rognon Vaudano, in memory of Davide Vaudano, who unfortunately died on the Rutor glacier in August 2009. In 1993/1994 the mountain guide Rudy Buccella together with Davide and Roberto Romano, an aspiring guide who also unfortunately died more than twenty years ago, bolted two 4-pitch climbs on the far lefthand side of the face. Since 1993 the glacier has lowered by about 50/60 meters.
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