When Riccardo Cassin started climbing the massive northeast face of Piz Badile in July 1937, he and his partners, Vittorio Ratti and Gino Esposito, had no idea two rival Italian alpinists were already ...
On January 2, 1909, the versatile mountaineer Riccardo Cassin was born in Friuli, Italy. Cassin's father died in a mining accident in Canada in 1913. To help his family, Cassin left school at the age ...
The North Ridge of the Piz Badille in Switzerland’s Bregaglia range has been called the Finest Route Of Its Grade in the Alps. Soaring 3,000 feet on splitter granite up one of Europe’s most infamous ...
Luca Godenzi and Carlo Micheli on the summit of Pizzo Badile after having carried out a rare winter ascent of Via Cassin on 30-31/12/2016 Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, ...
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