Spirit: second on-sight for Manolo

on 05/08 Maurizio "Manolo" Zanolla" made the second on-sight of Spirit, (Cima Merionale, Cime d'Auta, Dolomites).
Spirit, Cime d'Auta, Dolomiti, Manolo

Less than a week after Riccardo Scarian’s first on-sight, Maurizio Zanolla, alias Manolo, repeated Spirit in the same fashion. The Dolomite route was first ascended by Massimo da Pozzo and Danilo Serafini on the south Face of Cima Orientale, Cime D’Auta, in September 2003 and graded (max 7c+/8a, 7b obbl.).

This second on-sight was carried out in less than four hours and, according to Manolo, the route is truly fantastic. Congratulations… to the first ascentionists, too.


Spirit or elegance
by Manolo

Cima d'Auta is a very particular mountain which quietly fills the gap between the Pale di San Martino and her majesty the Marmolada. But the elegance undoubtedly lies above all in its southern section, where the face drops down onto steep alpine meadows in an extraordinary environment which does its best to remain hidden from view.

I went to repeat Spirit because I was told it was a great route and I was not disappointed… a must-do line on a mountain that really should be discovered.

In making a sincere compliment to the first ascentionists I would like to add that the only thing I didn’t like about the route is that I wasn’t the first to climb it.


Spirit, Cime d'Auta, Dolomiti

Spirit, Cime d'Auta, Dolomiti, Manolo

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