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| Page Type: Route Location: Central Alps, Italy, Europe Lat/Lon: 46.47860°N / 10.56850°E Route Type: Ice climb - mixed Time Required: Half a day Difficulty: PD-AD
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| Page By: peterpyr Created/Edited: Jan 10, 2002 / Jan 10, 2002 Object ID: 156080 Hits: 1746  Loading... Page Score: 86.95% - 3 Votes  Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
Approach
Start from Pizzini Hut, then walk on "vedretta del Gran Zebru" glacier, and start climb (3200 m) on a large coloir leading to shoulder.
Route Description
From the hut start dir NNW walking on moreines for about 1 hour.
Reach a tongue of glacier leading directly to the mountain (dir N) leaving on the right a red rocks pillar, approaching the base of a colouir x shaped coming from the shoulder on the east side of the mountain (3200 m) 1 hour.
Climb the colouir up to the shoulder 3500 m steepness upt o 45-50 deg. max., 45 min. (dir N)
From the shoulder straight to the summit climing on the side of the rocks at your left (dir NW) until an open field with less stepness (3700 m) 45 min
From the field cross climbing to N to the north side of the fiel, looking for another small colouir leading to the final ridge 3800 m steepness upt o 45-50 deg. max.
Follow the ridge (dir W) until you're on the summit.
Few rules:
1) Do climb it early, the mountains face catch the first sun, and the snow will soft soon
2) Descend early for the same reason
3) Consider carefully the presence of other teams above you and act in a way to avoid to be involved in a not nice "group slide"
Essential Gear
This may be a very serious climb (up to AD) depending on ice conditions, consider the use of:
1) difficult glacier equipment
2) helmet
3) some ice screws
Climbing attitude
1) be ready to face a steep descent often needing a good crampons technique and/or a sticky snow
2) be careful going "ensamble", and be ready to perform some length with a fixed safety points
3) consider the weather, it's difficult to get lost, it's easy to have strong wind when you need to be well balanced, lightning may be very dangerous
Miscellaneous Info
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