Gran Vernel
Peak · 3210 m · Dolomites
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Nothing on this mountain is walked up. The easiest line to the top is still a graded climb, long and strenuous, and it costs up to five hours from Passo Fedaia.
From the summit, the ground drops more than 1,500 metres to the Avisio river below, in barely two kilometres of horizontal distance. The mountain was first climbed on 8 July 1879, when the guides Cesare Tomè, Battista Bernard and Giorgio Bernard led the client Gottfried Merzbacher to the top. Its south face went unclimbed for almost two more decades, until Eberhard Ramspeck soloed it on 21 July 1898. The normal route today is still long and strenuous, rated III+ and taking up to five hours from Passo Fedaia.
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