Lario Rock Falesie

The geographical area between the cities of Lecco and Como, gathered around the banks of the Lario, has boasted a continuous and well-known mountaineering tradition for more than a century. In particular, the latter has expressed itself, over the years, above all in free rock climbing, finding privileged and scenically magnificent terrain in the Grigne and also in the Resegone. In this sense, since the 1930s, from the epic of the sixth grade, and with the school of Riccardo Cassin and his companions, the Lecco rocks have stood out as one of the cradles of limestone climbing in Italy. Since 1984 the Lecco and Como area has seen a rapid and continuous spread of sport climbing, within an evolution that has not known any solutions of continuity and is today extremely lively. The great proximity of the Lecco area to the metropolises of the North has favored and still increases a very high frequency of these rocks, which have long been well known also at an international level. This volume is placed, not only as a new edition of the previous one, dating back to 2018, but as the sum of all the information available on the Como cliffs, as a reference text for sport climbing in the Lecco and Como areas. The volume, written by the same expert authors as the previous edition, describes more than 100 cliffs, using the most modern editorial and graphic technologies, with the support of drawings and technical photographs relating to the accesses and the location of the rock structures, accompanied by GPS indications and QR codes relating to access to the same and to the car parks. By precise editorial choice, this volume has also been enriched with a high number of action photographs, in the belief that images constitute a fundamental element in the sporting characterization of a crag or climbing route. Finally, numerous historical and technical sheets illustrate the characters and places that have made the history of sport climbing in the Como area. Resegone, Lecco, Valsassina, Grignetta, Angelone, Walls of Introbio, Piani di Bobbio, Grignone, Triangolo Lariano.