Apuan Alps

The Apuan Alps are an unexpectedly rugged world, just a few kilometers from the populated beaches of the Mediterranean coast. Not far from the main ridge of the Alps, this rugged and surprisingly quiet mountain range is home to many beautiful long routes with up to 800m of pure climbing. The protection reaches sport climbing level in most of the 55 presented routes. Of course, there are also sufficiently long routes for friends of more classic routes, in which an assortment of friends and wedges should hang on the harness at the start.All routes are described in detail in their individual lengths and visualized by a good color photo topo.In the form of pictograms there is also all the necessary information: Difficulty (of the individual lengths), protection, climbing length, sea level, access time, orientation, required material (rope length, number of exes, friends, ...).In addition, the guide is illustrated with many captivating images that present the Apuan Alps as a rewarding destination for long routes.192 pagesLanguage ItalianEdition 2020Jacopo BaldiIdea Montagna

221 classic and modern routes between the Apuan Alps and the Argentario In the collective stereotype Tuscany represents cities of art, the Chianti hills, seas, islands, its archipelago. The Apuan Alps are the marble quarries. For those who climb in Tuscany and in the Apuan Alps they are a splendid island of limestone rock not only with the immense crags of Camaiore, but also the wild valleys which hide the large rock faces on which the history of this region’s alpinism runs up. History which continues to live and renew itself with new routes opened in a modern style, using bolts, which alternate with the great classics. Some routes are immersed in untouched nature, others are wedged in between the devastation of the white marble quarries. A few of these routes carry important names and have taken part, in their own small way, in the long fight lasting decades, to save this paradise from the massacre of the extraction industry. From the 1000 metres of Pizzo d’Uccello’s north face, to the more modern routes along Procinto, to the high difficulties on the imposing face of Nona. In this journey between mountain and sea, we will visit the rocks overlooking the blue sea of Argentario, exploring Tuscany’s climbing from north to south. 208 pages language german edition 2021 R. Giannetti Versante Sud