Versante SudValtellina Rock climbing guide
Topic of interest
Climbing
Author
Camilla Cerretti
publisher
Versante Sud
region
ITA - Italy
local region
Dolomites
ISBN
9788855470216
number of pages
416
Fit
Description
<p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The new edition of the old climbing guidebook "<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Valtellina</span>, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Valchiavenna</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">ed</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Engadina</span>", which was divided into two independent guides in view of the immense number of climbing opportunities, with the location of the areas described serving as the criterion for the division. This guidebook is published a good two years after the first part, which covers the <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Valchiavenna</span> and has already become a bestseller. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Guido</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Lisignoli</span> has handed over the pen to two young authors after four editions: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Simone</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Manzi</span> is the author of the 2018 Climbing Guidebook, this new edition is credited to <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Camilla</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Ceretti</span>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Valtellina is crossed by the river <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Adda</span> which also serves as a dividing line between two very different mountain ranges: the Western <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Rhaetian</span> and the <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Orobic</span> <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Alps</span>. Thanks to this fact and the length of the valley, we come across a wide variety of rock types: <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">granite</span> in Val Masino, <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">limestone</span> in the upper valley, <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">gneiss</span> and slate in the lower and <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">middle</span> valley, <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Serpentin</span> in Valmalenco and <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Verrucano</span> in Val Gerola.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are in an area where there is still a lot to discover alongside world-famous classics such as the <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Sasso</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Remenno</span> im <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Val</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Masino</span> or the climbing garden <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Zoia</span> im <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Valmalenco</span> there is still plenty of room for new lines, on rocks that are more or less known or have not yet been considered at all. The most important protagonists here are certainly the local climbers, first and foremost <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Simone</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PT Sans Narrow", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;">Pedeferri</span>, who maintain the existing climbing gardens and open up new sectors and routes of the highest standard every year. The Valtellina offers a wide range of climbing opportunities and you are free to decide according to your mood, weather, difficulty, psychological demands, climbing style and length of approach. And so this guide is a bit like a cookbook, where you can choose the dish depending on the ingredients you want to use to make your climbing day a success.</p> <p
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