Gran Sasso, new rock climb by Iannilli and D'Andrea

COMPAGNI DAI CAMPI E DALLE OFFICINE by Roberto Iannilli

“Robbè! Up there, in the middle, is there no way through?”
Damn you Luca, couldn't you just keep your mouth shut?
"No, it's so smooth, the only way up would be with aid, and I mean complicated aid" I reply.
"Yeah, so what's the bid deal?"
Here we go again. Massimo, even you need to add your two cents?
But it's too late, I try to resist and then give in almost immediately.
"Well yes... There seems to be a thin chance up there, to the left."

Luca, Massimo and I stop at the Belvedere, the panoramic ledge beneath the East Face and we begin to check out the line, our next route. The studying phase has begun, the project, where you try to imagine, guess what lies in store and, almost always, get practically nothing right at all. Only one thing is certain: climbing up those yellow, slightly overhanging flaked slabs won't be easy.

This is how our adventure begins up the East Face of Corno Grande's western summit, an adventure which lasts a month, with two failed attempts and the two-day ascent with a bivy on the "comfortable" Prima Cengia, the first ledge. This is how Compagni dai campi e dalle officine comes into being - companions from the fields and factories - but also from the offices, hospitals, schools, houses, mountains... because the time has come that we take to the streets once again to ask for and obtain a real change. A change which must be, first and foremost, ours; it would be hypocritical to search for a class of politicians who are no longer legitimate if we ourselves don't change first.


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