Italian climbers Matteo Della Bordella, Maurizio Giordani, Max Faletti, and Iris Bielli have opened a new route on the South Face of 3,343m Marmolada, the highest mountain in Italy’s Dolomites.
The South Face of Marmolada represents a reference point for climbing in the Dolomites. Della Bordella calls it the queen of walls.
The face has about 200 multi-pitch routes, many between 300m and 800m long — works of art that represent the maximum expression of difficulty, effort, and beauty in mountaineering.
One of the members of the team, Maurizio Giordani, even published a book about this wall in 2017 called Marmolada South Face.
Marmolada, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia
