Mountain GuideFrancesco Salvaterra
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King Lines

Royal lines: it’s a selection of climbs that I personally consider beautiful, regardless of location, difficulty, terrain and climbing style. It is a list of lifelong dreams with great classics, but also with semi-unknown ascents waiting to become one them.

These are mostly ascents that I have already climbed at least once and that have remained impressed in my best memories. That is why I propose them to you.

Proposte King Lines

  • Aguglia di Goloritzé o punta Carrodi.

    Let's face it, mountains and sea are two passions that often go hand in hand, precisely for this reason I think it's due to the success and fame of this monolith.

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  • Pale di San Lucano: Northern edge Agner and other classics

    The wild and spectacular environment of the San Lucano valley is truly worth a visit for a fan of the Dolomites.

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  • Mount Carè Alto 3462m

    It is the highest and most imposing mountain in the whole southern part of the Adamello group.

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  • Campanil Basso: Fehrmann + Preuss or Spallon Graffer + Graffer Edge

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  • Marmolada south wall: Tempi Moderni, Don Quixote, Tomasson, Vinatzer-Messner and other classics

    On this gray wall, famous all over the world like El Capitain or Cerro Torre, climbing is unique in its kind: you navigate at sight and intuition, following the line of narrow holes and minimal holds in an apparently gray insuperable sea.

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  • Cerro torre e sorelle dalla vetta del Cerro Rincon. 2013. (f. Thomas Franchini)

    Cerro Torre, West face, via dei Ragni

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  • Fitz Roy

    The most affordable ways to climb the “smoky” mountain are the Franco-Argentina and the Californian on the North-East side or the supercanaleta and the Afanassief on the West side.

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  • Secondo pilastro del Casale, via del missile.

    I can't remember how many times I climbed this route, for me the most beautiful in the Sarca valley. You must like cracks and athletic climbing.

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  • Crozzon di Brenta: via delle Guide, diedro Aste, Supermaria, other classics

    A route from the past, opened in one day by two stars of climbing. It is a climb that you would never want to end, a very long series of beautiful holds, holes where you can rest your feet and small notches to relay on in time of need.

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  • Top ten val d’Ambiez: via Fox-Stenico, il canto delle Sirene ecc.

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  • West spur of Ago Mingo

    It is a ridge route in the high mountains, one of the most beautiful in the Adamello group.

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  • Croz dell’Altissimo, via Dibona

    This route is a true vertical adventure, long, complex and extremely varied. There are not many difficult sections but it is not a climb for the delicate ones in terms of rock quality.

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  • Catinaccio, diretta Stegher

    One of the most beautiful things about this route is that it finds the easy through the difficult, therefore great logic and verticality.

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  • Eiger north wall, via Heckmair

    A climb that does not need any presentations, I personally really appreciated it, at this link you can find a story of our climb.

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  • THE 6 NORTH WALLS OF THE ALPS

    In the history of mountaineering, six great north faces of the Alps have been identified and classified extreme for their difficulty, height and severity: Matterhorn, Cima Grande di Lavaredo, Grandes Jorasses, Petit Dru, Pizzo Badile, Eiger.

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