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Badile (m 3308)

giant granite

Val Masino, after the Valmalenco, is the largest of the valleys that converge in the Valtellina. This area, well known among climbers and a favorite destination for mountaineers and climbers, owes its fame to the ridge of peaks that rise to his head, the mountains bold shapes, always higher than 3000 m, known for the beauty and the difficulty their granite walls: the group of Masino-lands.
An extraordinary corner of our mountains. A performance of a quite gothic, which goes straight to the heart especially when viewed from the Val Bondasca on the north side, where the view is interrupted abruptly against the formidable walls and ghostly group of Sciori, moving towards the dark mass of Cengalo and Finally, the unmistakable profile of Pizzo Badile: square, straight, perfect. Vette oozing history dihedral at each and every plate, an imposing cathedral of granite with its edges, its pinnacles, some of the infinite, the deeply incised canyons and summoned the wishes of the climbers with the same force with which rejects common sense and the eyes of ordinary people.
But how can one not be fascinated by the north wall of the shovel, a dark slate almost a thousand meters high, a giant blade that rises from the ice? A show of unique stone that has also fascinated many famous artists like the painter Giovanni Segantini, which of these mountains and those Engadine fell in love.
No, you can not remain indifferent, and in fact the shovel Pizzo is one of the mountains and good revenue for some time in the history of Italian law. On its walls they were signed legendary names, such as passing the northeast wall by the great Richard Cassin (1937), outstanding enterprise paid But at the highest price, with the death of two climbers Como members of the team. Even today, on top, a plaque commemorates their sacrifice for a love that only those who live on the mountain can understand. Today there are dozens
routes plotted on the shovel, including the famous and very popular north ridge, the length of the streets and the harshness of the environment make them viable but only with adequate technical training and athletic.

(Picture: 1-north of the shovel with lace on top edge of the famous, the shovel from the 2-Valmasino)

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