SELLA ROCK | Versante Sud climbing guide

climbing guide

255 classic and sport routes in the Sella Group

The Sella Group is simply enormous, with hundreds and hundreds of itineraries. Over the years, many routes have been opened, some of which have now been forgotten or buried by new lines that grazed, crossed, included the previous ones. More than one new modern route has definitively erased the remains of historic lines, mostly unrepeated and of which practically no one remembered the existence.

A monograph could be written only on the famous Torri and Piz Ciavazes, but the Sella Group is not only Piz Ciavazes, and the immense wall of Sass Pordoi is there to remind you of it; then you just have to turn the corner of the Sella Pass to find yourself in front of the shady walls of the north side, pass under the imposing sport slabs of Cansla, look with fear at the walls of the Mesule, a no-bolt area par excellence. Shortly after, the Frea cliff with its multi-pitch routes brings you back to a more relaxing climate, but the walls of Sass dla Luesa bring you back to more classic mountaineering. Shortly after, the immense wall of Pisciadù and Torre Brunico allow you to try your hand at classic and sport routes of great class. In Colfosco, the Faccia oscura della luna now offers 15 sport routes by the tireless Roly Galvagni, while the last corner of this rocky paradise visited in this guide concerns the walls in the surroundings of Vallon, near the Kostner Refuge.

We have concentrated our attention on the most interesting routes, paying more attention to the precision of the reports than to the number of routes presented. Obviously, we have not repeated all the existing routes, but we have availed ourselves of the first-hand collaboration of openers and repeaters in the hope of providing the most precise product possible.