A selected climbs guidebook describing 255 trad and sport routes in the Sella Group, located in the Dolomites of North-East Italy. As well as the famous Sella Towers and Piz Ciavazes, there are many different areas to the Sella group that provide a wide variety of climbing.
All the routes are described in great detail and shown on a colour photo topo, and a classic hand-drawn topos. Information is provided about how to access the routes, descent information is also provided, as is what gear may be required. Additional information includes route lengths and the number of pitches. For each of the main eight areas covered there is a location map and general access information.
To quote Versante Sud, "The Sella group is simply enormous, with hundreds of climbs. Over the years many routes were opened, a few of which have been forgotten or covered by new lines which brush against, cross over or include the previous. More than one modern route has cancelled remains of old historical lines, mainly unrepeated and which had been completely forgotten.
A complete monography could be written about the famous Towers and Piz Ciavazes, but the Sella Group is not only Piz Ciavazes, and the immense Sass Pordoi rock face is there to remind us of that; then all you have to do is turn the corner of Passo Sella to find yourself standing in front of the shady walls of the north face, passing under the imposing sport crags of Cansla, and fearfully looking at the Mesule walls, a strictly no bolt area par excellence. Further ahead the Frea crag with its multipitch routes takes us back to a more relaxing atmosphere but the rock faces of Sass dla Luesa take us back to the more classic type of alpinism. Shortly after the immense rock face of Pisciadù stands high and from Torre Brunico the classic and sport route of great class can be tackled. At Colfosco the Faccia oscura della luna offers 15 sports routes set up by the never tiring Roly Galvagni, while the last corner left of this rocky paradise described in this guide book deals with the rock faces surrounding Vallon, near Rifugio Kostner.
Our attention has gone towards the more interesting routes giving more detail to the description of the route rather than the number of routes presented. Obviously we did not repeat all the routes but we made the most of first hand descriptions given to us by the route openers or those climbers who repeated the routes, hoping to supply a product which is as precise as possible."
In English.
By Alessio Conz and Renato Bernard.
Card cover, 21cm x 15cm, 384 pages.
Published 2023 by Versante Sud.
ISBN: 978-88-55471-459.
Includes a unique code that allows you to download an app of the guidebook for both iOS and Android devices.