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the Piz Bernina (4,050 m) Il Pizzo

August 8, 2006. prelude of a storm on the crest of the Bernina.

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in a single peak over 4000 meters, and it is the most top of the Valtellina, the Piz Bernina (4,050 m). Saglio
writes: " trigonometric signal by first-rate climax group [...] . Between the breach of the Bernina, the Forcola Crest Guzza and breaches Scércen, the superb mountain shows Might and elegance with a procession of prestigious peaks just as beautiful. "
The name has its origins from the Celtic word Ber , which means source. It is precisely the Bernina, with its huge ice giants, which feeds the Adda, and the Po ', from the Italian side, and the Inn, and the Danube, from Switzerland. The
mountaineering history, as for the lace Step, it was premature for the interest inherent in the topographical summit. On September 13, 1850 the surveyor J. Coaz with Joan and Lorenz Ragut Tscharner, after a long preparation of studies and measurements of the surrounding peaks, sailed from Bernina Sout at 6 am. Morteratsch sailed up the glacier, and the terrible crevasses superatone median, the Labyrinth, attacked the rocks of the mighty shoulders E. Continuing on the crest of the group reached the peak at 18.

Lenatti Floriano, caretaker for many years and Marco Rosa, and her Bernina.

This was the preferred route for many years both by the groups that came up from the Swiss side, either by the groups from Marinelli. Since 1914, even after the inauguration of the hut Marco e Rosa, fell on his shoulder the way common saying that, although longer for groups from Morteratsch ultimately offered less difficulty climbing. Famossissima along the normal and the sharp blade of ice that joins the tip im 4021 to 4050 of the Italian Swiss tip. It is not uncommon that many climbers s'arrendano facing the terror of the huge cliffs that enclose the narrow ridge.

Bernina from the Bivouac Paravicini

The path of interest is climbing the north ridge or Bianco, very long and tiring ascension to the Crest'Alva (white lace), and full of passages and breathtaking scenery. Who takes it and usually spend the night (?) From the Chamanna Tschierva and start the day with the classic early rising at 3 am to complete the exit and Marco Rosa in the early afternoon!
My emotional relationship with this mountain is great. I went for the first time that I was still a child (12 years), I remember a giant rock and ice, breathtaking cliffs, ridges as sharp as blades, but also a surreal tranquility, the happiness of having arrived with my legs only one step away from heaven.
Then again, when the August 8, 2003, in the company of my friend Marina, I climbed on foot, starting from Sondrio and then return after 21h and 43 'of endless toil and emotions. The company

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ascent route to the normal route