Petzl Legend Tour Italy starts
The Petzl Legend Tour Italy is a journey, told in short docufilms, to discover the symbolic places of the birth of Italian sport climbing in the 1980s. The first episode will take us to Finale Ligure, a land of borders, exploration, sea and rock.
The Trip to Finale Ligure
Capo Noli, Rocca di Perti, Monte Cucco, Monte Sordo, Rocca di Corno, Bric Pianarella. We don’t look for the grade between these walls but for the history. We think for a moment to go back in time and find ourselves on almost virgin lines. The glances and the dreams that have contributed to making Finale what it is today are many. We would like to pay homage to them all, one by one, because they have been visionaries, they have challenged the limits, with imagination and courage. We start from the sea because it is as if climbing in its new sporting guise came from there, from the coasts of southern France. Capo Noli is our first stop. We climb Dancing Dalle 7a, we want to know when and how it was bolted, who better than Alessandro Grillo to tell us about it. Our paper bible can only be Andrea Gallo’s Guide. We leaf through it and read about Nuovi Guerrieri 7b. Rocca di Perti, the elegance of the vertical gesture and the meeting with Giovanni “Giova” Massari are dazzling. It is then with Grillo that we arrive at Monte Cucco to find another piece of history that links Patrick Berhault to Finale. Climbing on the roof of Coralie 7a+ is an emotion. But you can’t say you’ve climbed at Monte Cucco if you don’t dance on lines like Sweet Eyes for Frank Zappa 7b, bolted by Martino Lang. Martino Lang and Luca “Blond” Biondi then took us to Monte Sordo, in the Alveare sector, to climb one of the most visionary routes of the eighties, Viaggio nel futuro 7c+. The name chosen is almost a premonition, because the future of sport climbing will see the imposition of large roofs and overhangs. Grillo then takes us back to the footsteps of the first fathers, so we get lost in the sea of rock of Bric Pianarella and finally among the sunsets of Rocca di Corno, where the first routes of the Finale area were climbed. A journey which does not pretend to be exhaustive because condensing years of history into a few minutes is impossible, but which has the sole ambition of arousing curiosity and emotions. For us personally, it served to remind us that the thrill of discovery and exploration can and should also be directed at who we were.
What is the Petzl Legend Tour Italia?
The Petzl Legend Tour is a real and virtual journey that aims to revive the birth of Italian sport climbing through short docufilms to be shared on digital platforms. The objective of the Petzl Legend Tour made in Italy is to discover walls, crags, pitches, multipitch, through the stories of the protagonists of that golden age, to treasure the sensations that only a journey through our history can give us.
