Acknowledgements

There are so many people who make themselves available to extend the range of climbing guides, unlike the cold and shallow apps on your cell phone, they are and remain the starting point for so many vertical trips to discover the most beautiful crags in the world. In the pages of this book you will find all the love and warmth of those who live to climb and those who climb to live, from Daniela with the patience which women alone possess who helped me with the compilation of the major part of the crags published here, to Federico Bin who thanks to his professionalism and great passion illuminated me on routes which I had only imagined, to Benedetta “Benny” Lucarelli who never says no to me, to Sara Leoni for her great availability and wonderful photos and to the whole Reload.Climb team for all the useful information they supplied and for training and following so many climbers all over Italy, to Daniele Bucco for allowing me to publish “his” crags in the Friuli Dolomites, to the many passionate climbers who let themselves be depicted while they “squeezed” holds with all their strength: Roberta Alberti, Bruno Belligoli, Emanuele Bertossi, Enrico Cassol, Davide Deflorian, Lorenzo Finotti, Michele La Marca, Luca Lancellotti, Caroline Linhart, Serena Menardi, Foteini Moschovaki, Mattia Scarpa, Thomas Steiner, Alberto Tenaglia, Otto Von Ottenbergh, Alex Walpoth and others who unfortunately I am no longer in contact with. A heartfelt thanks also goes to who helped me simply by email or by phone sending me topos of new areas which have been bolted, comments about the best routes, photos of rock faces which I never managed to take, contacts, information and a lot more: Mauro Bernardi, Edi Boldrin, Armin Craffonara, Luca Da Poz, Dante Da Pra, Icio Dall'Omo, Massimo Da Pozzo, Chiara De Rocco, Florio Del Favero, Luca Dell’Antonio, David Demetz, Christian Dorigo, Dino Marini, Alex Mayer, Alessandro Menardi, Hannes Pfeifhofer, Francesco Rigon, Francesco Tremolada (Pro Guide). And to finish, a thank you to the publisher Versante Sud and all its collaborators who helped me create, design, translate and print this guide book: Tommaso Bacciocchi, Gillo Bottini, Roberto Capucciati, Chiara De Benedetto, Alexandra Ercolani and Ursula Oberrauch. If you want to write to me to suggest any new crags, point out errors you have found in this guide book, criticize or just to say hello write to me at: guido.colombetti@versantesud.it