Ossola Rock is the fifth edition, this time divided into two separate guides for crags and multi-pitch routes. This guidebook is itself divided into two volumes, covering routes in Mottarone, Val Strona, the lower Ossola Valley, Macugnaga, the Antrona and Bognanco valleys, the lower Antigorio Valley, Val Divedro, and Sempione.

Numerous new additions are presented, including some valley-level routes and high-altitude routes like Rück'n'Roll. Adventurous and secluded rock faces, such as Fornalino and Corni di Nibbio, have also been rediscovered in a modern key. There are also routes easily accessible from Domodossola, and of course, the El Dorado in the shadow of the Gondo Gorges.

The areas covered in the second volume include the Cairasca Valley, Alpe Veglia, Alpe Devero with its access valley, the upper Antigorio Valley with Formazza, and Val Vigezzo to round out the range. Everything has been completely rewritten, accompanied by new photos, and reorganized for ease of use.

All these guides also include a German version, given that Ossola has become an internationally renowned climbing hotspot for years.

Fabrizio Manoni (Manetta), from Ornavasso, was already in the Himalayas in 1986, at the age of 23, and opened a new route on Shivling. That same year, he became a mountain guide. He climbed the 8,463-meter peak of Makalu in alpine style and bivouacked in the open air without supplementary oxygen near the summit of Everest. He climbed solo in the Andes, also establishing new routes. He's active everywhere in the Alps, often solo, such as on the north face of the Matterhorn. His ideal is "fluid speed"—like the Frendo on foot from Chamonix in 5 hours or the Cassin route to Badile in 2.40 hours—a concept he loves to apply to sport climbing as well. In Ossola, he continues to open challenging routes, reinterpreting a classic mountaineering approach with a modern twist. He has co-authored several publications, including Shiva's Lingam (Versante Sud, 2018) and the previous editions of this guidebook.

Enrico Serino discovered mountaineering and climbing in 1987. At thirteen, he began using self-taught techniques and began traversing Alpine walls and peaks. At 16, he attended a CAI course, and since 1996, he has been a national free climbing instructor. He has hundreds of ascents on 4000-meter peaks and ice, but his favorite terrain is long rock routes. From Novara he moved to Val Camonica, Valsesia, then to Simplon Dorf where he worked as a cheesemaker for years, and to Val Vigezzo to always have the Ossola mountains close by. He has made numerous exploratory and solo climbs. Lately he has devoted himself more to crags. He has published several works on the mountains with an alternative approach, including novels, short stories, a guidebook on the Simplon Pass, and a specific one on the Ossola cracks. His is the volume Ossola Rock Falesie (Versante Sud, 2025).