Cima Tosa - Canalone Neri (Icecouloir)

The Cima Tosa is the highest peak with 3173m in the Brenta group (Italy). Alex and me went there on friday, march 22nd to climb up and ride down the longest Icecouloir of the east Alps - The Canalone Neri (50°) with a vertical drop of 850m.

really really heavy bastards

we had to carry our whole stuff four hours to the winter room

midnight cooking in the winter room

we went on at half past four

sunrise at the Cima Tosa

Alex is entering the couloir

I'm just before the Icewall

nearly the whole way down is a no fall zone, because the icewall is waiting for you at the end

the couloir was too icy, so we had to decide us against the descent ...

... read between the lines ...

the drop in with a really beautiful background

last view down :-( but only a view

so we had to rope down the normal way

one of our rare turns

a short break near the winter room, before we had to carry our stuff back
And there we got an aprovement, that we made the right decision, because we saw an avalange coming down the Canalone Neri!!! And some big rocks came down the wall you see behind Alex.

pretty exhausted on the way back

Last view back, after 16h of hicking...

Cima Tosa Alex und Dani from Alex Sk8 on Vimeo.