Ticino

The publishing project focused on Canton Ticino walls comes to a fulfilment with this guidebook reviewing the modern multipitches – including modern, sport and trad climbing.The area, in addition to many interesting crags, features wonderful routes on an excellent granite – one of the best in the Alps.The mild climate and the great variety of Ticino walls are favoured by many climbers coming from all over Europe, especially the nearby regions north of the Alps.This accurate and detailed guidebook has been compiled by the same authors who signed the volume describing the crags of Varese and Canton Ticino. They are both locals, and very active in promoting climbing in this area, where they sent many routes.Thanks to a networking effort with other local climbers they gathered a comprehensive set of up-to-date and detailed topos, including unpublished novelties, thus providing an extra-high accuracy.
The work is enriched by several articles and features, written by the authors themselves, relating their personal experiences on the walls of Ticino and interviews with the main characters of the local climbing community.240 pageslanguage germanedition 2016M. D. Bordella, D. MazzucchelliVersante Sud

The best climbing areas in Ticino in one volume:Locarno / Onsernone / Maggia / Verzasca / Bellinzona / Riviera / Blenio / Leventina / Moesa / Lugano / Mendrisio.For this new edition in 2025, Ticino-based author and developer Glauco Cugini has updated over 30 areas, six sectors and 568 routes are completely new.The descriptions of the climbing areas are detailed and easy to understand: drawn topos, information on the development and beauty rating of the routes, overview maps and GPS coordinates for the approach, and lots of color photos. The trilingual climbing guide (Italian, French, German) is supplemented with information on the history of climbing in Ticino, geology, and environmental issues.The guide contains over 400 detailed climbing topos and over 400 color photos. 618 pagesLanguage German / Italian / French5th edition 2025G. CuginiSAC Publishing

TESSIN ROCK climbing crags: Locarnese, Valle Maggia, Bellinzona, Moesano, Riviera with Val di Blenio, Sottoceneri, LeventinaOnly three years after the publication of the last edition, the number of new crags and routes in Ticino is so great that a new, expanded and corrected edition is in order. In this volume, 98 climbing areas are described, 36 of which have never been published before. This new book presents 4424 routes, 974 of which were not included in the previous edition.Detailed approach sketches, aerial photographs, color drawings and numerous action photos facilitate and accompany the discovery of the rocky beauties of Ticino. Various interviews and contributions from some of the protagonists of the international and local scene complete the work.624 pagesLanguage GermanEdition 2024E. BernasconiVersante Sud