The Giro d'Italia first finished at the Rifugio Auronzo in 1967, and the debut collapsed into farce: spectators swarmed the road and pushed riders, others held on to cars and motorbikes, and the organisers ended up neutralising the times, with Felice Gimondi recorded as the stage winner. The race came back in 1968, and on the final ramps in the rain Eddy Merckx pulled back around nine minutes on a 16-man break, took the maglia rosa and went on to win his first Grand Tour. José Manuel Fuente soloed to the stage in 1974, the day Merckx held pink by 12 seconds from Gianbattista Baronchelli, one of the closest margins in Giro history. Beat Breu won here in 1981, Luis Herrera in 1989, Riccardo Riccò in 2007, Vincenzo Nibali in a blizzard in 2013 with his overall win effectively sealed, and Santiago Buitrago in 2023, taking the tally to eight summit finishes.