The routes

Technically difficult and tiring climbing up vertical slabs, cracks and corners and at times friable rock. Established ground-up over three days, there are no in-situ bolts and the route is protected with pegs and trad gear only.

The normal route up the Dent du Géant is partially equipped with large ropes to aid the ascent and over the years it has become one of the great classics in the Mont Blanc range. Often crowded, never technically difficult...

Pleasant route up excellent quality slabs and cracks, with some technical sections in wild surroundings.

Delenda Carthago, established by Rolly Galvagni and Massimo Maceri in May 2002, offers elegant climbing up excellent slabs with difficulties up to 6b. Bolted on lead, there are some old pegs on the lower section of the route as this...

A great little route up good rock,  well protected, which climbs the West Face of Piccolo Lagazuoi directly above the museum "Forte Tre Sassi". All the belays are equipped with bolts and the hardest sections along the routes are bolt-protected,...

The 30-year-old and his girlfriend established the route over two weekends, chosing a line close (circa 10m) to "Aspettando la vetta", the route established by Massimo Da Pozzo and Giammario Meneghin in 2004. The new line crosses Aspettando on the...

The Gramused gendarme is one of the gems in the narrow Bavona valley in Switzerland, and recently a difficult multi-pitch route has been added to it, "Il mito della Caverna". The route climbs up the central part of the face,...

Multi-pitch established by Frenchman Simon Montmory in April 2011. The route takes a steep and well-equipped line close to an amazing arch up excellent quality rock.

Fantastic multi-pitch sport climb established by the Swiss climbers Urs Odermatt and Peter Keller in April 2008 immediately to the right of the massive roof, also known as The Sleeping Princess Cave. This "plaisir" outing was the first route up...

An absolutely unique route because of its setting, the quality of the rock, but above all because I had never come across such contained difficulties on an overhang as big as this one. The route overhangs almost 60m with difficulties...

Established in 1992 by the Frenchmen Arnaud Petit and Stéphane Husson, as the name suggests Delicatessen is a strong contender for one of the most beautiful difficult multi-pitches in the world. Petit and Husson forged the line ground-up with the...

Sustained sport climb up excellent rock which requires special care only on the Vi pitch. Pitch 4 is the highlight, with a difficult crux followed by continuous, tiring and elegant climbing. Established ground-up over a series of days without any...

The rock face which hosts the route Pompa funebre is located close to Palermo's port and is reached by crossing the Arenella quarter and the monumental Rotoli cemetery. This gets its name form the rocks which sometimes rotoli, sometimes roll...

In April 2011 a small French team comprised of Arnaud Petit, Aymeric Clouet and young Enzo Oddo travelled to the Taghia Gorge in Morocco where they created Walou Bass, a 150m climb with difficulties up to 8c.The trio climbed the...

Fairplay is located in the Sella Vallon group on Piz da Lech (2908m) and was established by Simon Gietl & Klaus Gruber from the ground up without the use of bolts and with just trad gear and pegs as protection,...

American mountaineers Michael Schaefer and Kate Rutherford started up the main difficulties a few hundred meters east of the California route on 09/02/2011, with Rutherford taking over most of the leading. Progress was slow initially due to iced...