
| Excellent weather and glacier conditions, although it was very cold (-11 °C at Rif. Ponti in the morning, about -15°C and 40-50 km/h wind in the Pioda saddle).
We turned around from the lower section of the ridge, we didn't have enough strong nuts :)
No protection on the ridge, rocks are loose and unstable, no anchor at any point and I was too afraid of traversing a slab which appeared to be more difficult than UIAA II (I would say it was IV), and very exposed. I would have pulled down my friend from the mountain in an event of a fall. |