The photos
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Valle dell'Orco: crack climbing hands. Gloves didn't exist!
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Valle dell'Orco: the splendid location of the hut
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Valle dell'Orco: Andrea di Bari, second on the left, at the hut
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Valle dell'Orco: the Sitting Bull hut
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Valle dell'Orco: lots of slack
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Valle dell'Orco: Gianni Battimelli California-style
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Valle dell'Orco: Gianni Battimelli on the upper section of Totem Bianco
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Valle dell'Orco: Gianni Battimelli climbing up Caporal 1982
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Valle dell'Orco: Franco Salino
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Valle dell'Orco: Gianni Battimelli climbing the Kosterlitz crack in 1982
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Mike Kosterlitz, Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
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