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Auer's first major free solo climb was Tempi Moderni ("Modern Times"), an 850-metre (2,800-foot) route of 27 pitches graded 5.11d (7a), on the south face of Marmolada in the Dolomites in northeastern Italy, which he climbed in 2006. The climb took 2 hours 40 minutes.
From an early stage, Ballard began creating new rock climbing, mixed climbing and alpine routes in the Alps, the Dolomites, and in the Himalayas. He climbed a new rock route on the Eiger in 2009, naming it "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and completed the first solo climb of the Eiger winter route "Piola-Sprungli" in 2010. [9]
The Marmolada is an ultra-prominent peak (Ultra), known as the "Queen of the Dolomites". In 2009, as part of the Dolomites, the Marmolada massif was named a UNESCO World Heritage site. [2] [3] The largest glacier in the Dolomites, the Marmolada Glacier, is located on the northern face of the mountain. [4]
Dibona was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1879. [2] [3] From 1905 he was a mountain guide and a ski instructor in the Cortina area, and he became known for pioneering routes in the Dolomites, [4] [5] making more than 70 first ascents [1] and becoming the leading climber during the heyday of climbing in the Dolomites.
The Dolomites, also known as the "Pale Mountains", take their name from the carbonate rock dolomite.This was named after the 18th-century French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750–1801), who was the first to describe the mineral.
Maestri in 2006. Cesare Maestri (2 October 1929 – 19 January 2021) [1] was an Italian mountaineer and writer.. He was born in Trento in the Italian province of Trentino.He began climbing in the Dolomites, where he repeated many famous routes, often climbing them solo and free, [2] and put up many new routes of the hardest difficulty, for which he was nicknamed the "Spider of the Dolomites".
In the 1920s, he established hard climbing routes in Saxony and the Dolomites that have a present-day difficulty rating of up to 5.11. That was at a time when the hardest free climbing grade in the United States was 5.7. At the age of 25, he made a first ascent of the Fleischbank in Tyrol, which was proclaimed the hardest rock climb done at ...
In 1898 she made the first ascent of the northeast face of Monte Zebrù, which was considered at the time to be the most difficult ice wall to climb in the Tyrol, [2] as well as the first ascent of Ortler and the second ascent of the west face of Laurinswand, which was considered to be the Dolomites' most difficult rock wall. [1]