Great achievements

ITS MEN AND ITS MOUNTAINS - Great Climbs

Pizzo Scalino(3,323 m) First ascent A group of Lombard topographers working for Austria to erect a signal to draft the map of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia 1830
Pizzo Bernina(4,050 m) First ascent The Swiss topographer Joan Coaz and his assistants 13 September 1859
First Trekking in the Valmalenco Mrs Jane Quintin Freshfield with her son Douglas W. Freshfield summer 1861
Mount Disgrazia(3,678 m) First ascent Leslie Stephen, Edward Shirley Kennedy, Melchior Anderegg and Thomas Cox 24 August 1862
Guzza Ridge(3,869 m) West Ridge J.J. Weilenmann, J.A. Specht, Franz Pöll, Jakob Pfitsehner 17 June 1865
Pizzo Roseg(3,937 m) W. Moore, Horace Walker with Jacob Anderegg 28 July 1865
Pizzo Scalino(3,323 m) F.F. Tuckett, F.A.Y. Brown with C. Almer and F. Andermatten 22 June 1866
Pizzo Zupò(3,996 m) Douglas W. Freshfield with Henry Dévouassaoud 14 August 1871
Mount Disgrazia(3,678 m) First Italian ascent Alessandro Rossi, Francesco Fojanini, Achille Buzzi, Antonio Moro, Giovanni Orsatti with the guides Enrico Schenatti, Joli porter from Torre S. Maria and Antonio Flematti nicknamed “gatt” from Spriana 7 August 1874
Pizzo Bernina(4,050 m) North Ridge Biancograt Paul Güssfeld, H.Grass and J.Grass 12 August 1878
Central Pizzo Palù(3,906 m) Southern central and western variant “Via Italiana” Damiano Marinelli, H. Grass and J. Grass 19 August 1880
Pizzo Roseg(3,937 m) South Wall “Canale Marinelli” Damiano Marinelli, Hans Grass, Battista Pedranzini 14 July 1881
Pizzo Roseg(3,937 m) First winter ascent Mrs Aubrey Le Blond-Main with J.Colani, E.Cupelin, Martin Schocher 11 January 1884
First Traverse Scerscen-Bernina E.Y.Garwood, B. Wainewright, Martin Schocher, Christian Schnitzler 1866
Mount Disgrazia(3,678 m) First winter ascent Mrs Aubrey Le Blond-Main with the Engadine guides Schocher and Schnitzler 1896
Mount Disgrazia(3,678 m) North-north-eastern Ridge “Corda Molla” Ignazio Dell’Andrino and Braccio De Ferrari August 1914
Pizzo Bernina(4,050 m) South Gully “Direttissima” Alfredo Corti and Bruno Sala 3 September 1914
Forcola D’Argent(3,705 m) South-western Gully “Canalone Folatti” Luigi Bombardieri, Cesare Folatti, Peppino Mitta 25 July 1933
Guzza Ridge(3,869 m) North Wall direct variant Livio Lenatti, Alfredo Corti 8 September 1933
Mount Disgrazia(3,678 m) North Wall Giacomo Schenatti and Antonio Lucchetti Albertini 1934
Guzza Ridge(3,869 m) North – North-west Wall Cesare Folatti, Luigi Bombardieri 25 July 1935
Western Pizzo Palù(3,823 m) North-west Wall “Via Corti” Plinio and Nello Corti with Isacco Dell’Avo 2 August 1939
First winter traverse Roseg-Scerscen-Bernina Pietro Ghetti, Franco Gugiatti, Antonio Forni, Carlo Pedroni 25-26-27-28 December 1970
Pizzo Bernina(4,049 m) South Gully “Direttissima” First descent on skis Giancarlo Lenatti “Bianco” 1979
Mount Disgrazia North Wall(3,678 m) First complete descent on skis Giancarlo Lenatti “Bianco” July 1986