Arrampicate Libere sulle Dolomiti [Free Climbing in the Dolomites]
Author(s):
Casara, Severino
Copyright: 1944, Casa Editrice A. Corticelli, Milano
Specifications: 1st, thick 8vo, pp.327, photo frontis, 6 color & 168 bw photos, fldg color map, wraps w/ dj
Condition: signed Armando Aste & Riccardo Cassin, dust jacket is a facsimile, wraps browned on spine, wear to lower edges of spine, name, very good
Casara provides accounts of numerous historic free climbs throughout the Dolomites. This copy is signed by Armando Aste (led first Italian ascent of Eiger’s north face (1962), first ascent of the South Tower of Paine (1963), second ascent of Central Tower of Paine (1963), and numerous first ascents in the Dolomites), and Riccardo Cassin, one of Italy’s premier alpinists, who made numerous first ascents in the Dolomites including the North Face of the Cima Ovest di Lavaredo (1935). In Italian, no English translation.