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The Flying Dutch: new route in Mello’s Valley by Pedeferri and Schiera
Simone Pedeferri and Luca Schiera have established ‘L’Olandese Volante’, a new multi-pitch rock climb up Precipizio degli Asteroidi in Val di Mello, Italy. In...

Around 9a, with Stefano Carnati
Here is the video, starring Stefano Carnati, who explains to all of us, and you, the incredible beauty and complexity of climbing around the...

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Madagascar: the Ragni route on Tsaranoro Wall
But we all knew that we would probably never see each other again… There is a comfortable sofa in the living room of my...

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Jabel Misht…interested?
We had the first news about the ascents of Luca Schiera (Ragni di Lecco) and Andrea, in Oman in November 2013, through this simple...

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Ragni sulla Czech Direct al Denali
For photos and Videos Luca and David brought: Since reading the stories of Jack London as a kid I had dreamt about visiting this...

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La lunga attesa
Paolo Spreafico reports about ‘La lunga attesa’, the new rock climb established together with Fabio Palma up the marvellous Wenden limestone in Switzerland: Read...

Stefano Carnati climbs 9a at Céüse and Entraygues in France
During a few short trips to France, Italy’s Stefano Carnati repeated Condè de Choc 9a at Entraygues in the Briançon region and Le Cadre...

Stefano Carnati climbs Action Directe in the Frankenjura
18 year-old Italian climber Stefano Carnati has repeated Action Directe, the legendary 9a sport climb established by Wolfgang Güllich in Germany’s Frankenjura in 1991....

STEFANO CARNATI: GOLDRAKE, CORNALBA, 9a+!!
On Sunday 20 March 2016 at Cornalba, Italy, Stefano Carnati made the third ascent of Goldrake, the 9a+ sports climb freed by Adam Ondra...

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MEXICO, new route by RAGNI DI LECCO
In November 2015 Simone Pedeferri, Paolo Marazzi and Marco Maggioni made the first ascent of El Chaman Loco up the El Chaman face at...

FIRST 9a for STEFANO CARNATI!
17-year-old climber Stefano Carnati, son of our great member Adriano Carnati and the lead guy of our youth sport team, has redpointed his first 9a...

KING OF THE BONGO, new route on Qualido in Val di Mello
In autumn 2014 Paolo Marazzi, Matteo de Zaiacomo and Luca Schiera completed the first ascent of King of the Bongo, a new climb that...

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CHINA, LIMING and TRAD CLIMBING
ITALIAN VERSION: http://ragnilecco.com/la-cina-e-vicina/ THE VIDEO: Luca Schiera introduces Liming, the famous trad climbing area in China. The Italian alpinist and member of the Ragni di...

Val di Mello, Scoglio della Metamorfosi -Simone Pedeferri climbs new route
In April 2015 Simone Pedeferri made the first ascent of “Io non ho paura” (225m, max 8b+, 7b obligatory) a new rock climb established...

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SARDINIA
Happy new year to everyone! As the most of the people who are familiar with this website already know, the Ragni group in the...

Ragni route on Saint Exupery
The stay of Matteo Della Bordella, Luca Schiera and Silvan Schupbach in Patagonia is close to its end. In the last days a short...

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GREENLAND – Dating with Berta
Now it’s really over: last Saturday, Matthew, and Christian Silvan reached the village of Ittoqqotoormit, the final leg of the expedition. But even the...

WENDEN, new route by Luca Schiera and Silvan Schüpbach
ITALIAN VERSION: http://ragnilecco.com/wenden-nuova-via-luca-schiera/ On 6 and 7 June 2014 Silvan Schüpbach and Luca Schiera made the first ascent of El Gordo (6c/7a, 450m) on Wendenstöcke,...

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APULIA, SALENTO: a new spot climbing
Italian Version:http://ragnilecco.com/arrampicare-nel-salento-il-video-dei-ragni-di-lecco/ LA PIETRA DEL SUD, the Ragni di Lecco project from a Fabio Palma’ proposal, has supported many new amazing crags in South...

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Torre Egger West face – Notti Magiche
Technical description of the route The overall length of the route is 1000m, with 800m of new terrain and the last 200m in common...

GROTTA DEL FERRO, Val di Mello, by SIMONE PEDEFERRI
ITALIAN VERSION: http://ragnilecco.com/27-07-2011-val-del-ferro-update-nuove-libere-portfolio/ Simone Pedeferri has freed Dream of love 8c at Grotta del Ferro, Val di Mello, Italy. All pics in this article are...

24h for Pedeferri and Spini
24H Italian Version Sometimes dreams happen to be the result of a general sense of uneasiness. Actually we should say that we grow...

Titlis Letze Ausfahrt for Matteo Della Bordella
By Matteo Della Bordella Between me and the Titlis it has been love at first sight. In 15 years of intense alpinistic activity I...

MAKE A WISH: an emotional 8c+
ITALIAN VERSION: http://ragnilecco.com/28-06-2012-make-a-wish/ Before the arrive of the summer 2012 Luca Passini succeeded in free climbing a project bolted some years ago in the...

Story of Ragni di Lecco
Story of Ragni di Lecco http://ragnilecco.com/storia-dei-ragni-di-lecco/ Story of Ragni di Lecco ( Ragni means Spiders) starts in 1946, when four young boys found the...

Infinite Jest – a MEGA route in Wenden
Infinite Jest – new route in Wenden Italian Version Without any doubt this is one of the best climbing spots in the Alps. I’ve...

WENDENSTOCKE, Infinite Jest
On 03/09/2011 Matteo Della Bordella and Fabio Palma made the first one-day ascent of their “Infinite Jest” (640m 8a+/8b max, 7b obl.), the new...

Simone Pedeferri and the first free ascent of Non sei più della mia banda
Translated by Planetmountain.com ITALIAN VERSION: http://ragnilecco.com/29-09-2010-non-sei-piu-della-mia-banda-all-free/ Once again Simone Pedeferri has undertaken a vagabond journey up one of the massive rock faces in Italy’s Val...

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GREENLAND-4 new routes in pure alpine style
Simone Pedeferri, Matteo Della Bordella, Lorenzo “Pala” Lanfranchi and Richard Felderer have just returned from a successful expedition to the relatively unexplored eastern Greenland...

RAETIKON, new route by PALMA and SOLDARINI
ITALIAN ARTICLE: http://ragnilecco.com/11-09-2006-ripetizione-in-dolomiti-e-una-nuova-via-in-ratikon-per-i-ragni/ Fabio Palma and Domenico Soldarini have established “Follie di Fine Estate” a ten pitches route in Ratikon Fabio Palma reported that “the...

PATAGONIA – CERRO MURALLON first ascent – 1984
“To let it go far, let even the rain in his shoes be sweet, even the solitude” (Francesco De Gregori – Santa Lucia)...

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Cerro Torre, 1974
italian version Can a mountain represent an alpinist? Sometimes yes, sometimes surely no. It often happens to be prisoners of a mountain, more...

MC KINLEY 1961
1961, Ragni di Lecco become famous all over the world Ph. Luigino Airoldi From the diary of Riccardo Cassin Ghiglione was the first who...