Adamello is a highland of profound historical significance and breathtaking natural beauty.

With its immense valleys carved by Quaternary glaciers, its jagged, kilometer-long ridges expand like a triskelion from the icy central plateau, its silver toned tonalite walls, and that distinct feeling of infinity, almost a trademark of the massif, Adamello
is a simply magical place to climb.

The nearly 330 “sky routes” described on the eastern side of the massif offer a wide range of opportunities for exploration. This is intended as just one step towards a journey of passion and thoughtful enjoyment of a unique and precious natural environment.

This first volume focuses on the northernmost valleys of the massif’s eastern side, with a second volume, coming soon, dedicated to the Blumone subgroup and Val Daone along with its side valleys.

Paolo Amadio, born in 1971, is from Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia. He graduated in economics and works in the credit sector. The mountains have always been a family tradition, or probably something that runs deeper, almost a kind of genetic imprinting. And for him, the mountain has always been Adamello, perhaps because he climbed it at the age of seven, and certain experiences at that age stay with you for life. After fifteen years of intense activity in the Dolomites, he returned to Adamello in the early 2000s. Over the course of about two decades of passionate wandering through the massif, he established around a hundred new routes, often together with important climbers from the local climbing scene, first and foremost, Gianni Tomasoni. In 2015, together with the co-author Angelo Davorio, he published a first volume dedicated to climbing in the Adamello region. A second book followed in 2018, this time with Tomasoni, focused specifically on the western part of the massif. This new guidebook is the fulfillment of a
promise made to himself, and to the many old and new friends and devotees of climbing in the Adamello.

Nicola Binelli, born in Trentino in 1988, lives in Pinzolo. He holds a degree in mathematics and works as a mountain guide and
ski instructor. He has climbed throughout the Alps and in many parts of the world from the Canadian Rockies to Patagonia, from
the Himalayas to the New Zealand Alps, and across much of Europe always with an exploratory spirit. He first came to know and explore Adamello during his teenage years, when he spent ten summers working at the Rifugio ai Caduti dell’Adamello. The mountain hut became his second home and the place where his passion for the mountains, alpinism, and exploration was born and developed. Twenty years have passed since then, and the Adamello remains the place closest to his heart, a corner of the Alps that continues to make him dream, whether he’s opening new routes, guiding clients, or simply spending his free time exploring. A magical and adventurous place, steeped in history and a kind of “old-fashioned” alpinism, which, in his eyes, is precisely what makes it so captivating.