Piz Badile - North Face

The last one of the six classic north faces of the Alps, the only reason Piz Badile isn't more famous is because of its somewhat remote location, in the Grisons at the Swiss-Italian border. What it offers, though, is some of the most perfect granite in Europe and spectacular, surprisingly moderate climbing. Piz Badile itself is a fin of granite jutting out from the Cengalo massif, with its incredible knife edge North Ridge shooting straight up for over 1200 meters. The north-east face itself is a blank slab of grey granite, of which the clever Cassin route finds the only weakness.

This poster also shows a few routes on the north faces of nearby Punta Sertori and Pizzo Trubinasca. 

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Route List

1: ENE Ridge of Punta Sertori,Molinatto, Pinardi, Riva, 1932
2: E Face of Punta Sertori,Bernasconi, Riva, Vinci, 1939
3: Panoramica, 6b+ (6a obl.), Bianchi, Frei, 2003
4: N Ridge of Punta Sertori,Castelli, Fiorelli, 1905
5: ESE Ridge,Klucker, Rey, Rydzewski, 1893
6: Estasi,Maspes, Salini, 1991
7: Diretta del Popolo, 7a+ (6a obl.), Gianola, Fazzini, 1987
8: Via Belica-Koller, 6b A0, Belica, Koller, 1975
9: Via Felice Battaglia, 6a A0, Battaglia, Corti, 1953
10: English Route, 6a A2, Isherwood, Kosterlitz, 1968
11: Hiroshima, 7a (7a obl.), Libèra, Libèra, 1995
12: Via Nardella , 6a A3/7b+, Chiappa, Martinelli, Nardella, Scarabelli, 1973/Hefti, Schenk, 2019
13: Via del Fratello, 5b A2/6b, Rusconi, Rusconi, 1970
14: Memento Mori, 6b A3, Rybicka, Simon, Skalda, 1980
15: Via dei Fiori, 5c A0, Koller, Silhàn, 1978
16: Via Cassin, 6a (5c obl.), Cassin, Esposito, Molteni, Ratti, Valsecchi, 1937
17: Favola Ribelle, 6a+, Brambati, Carnati, Vitali, 1988
18: Linea Bianca, 5c+, Koller, Silhàn, 1978
19: Moscacieca, 6a+, Carnati, Vitali, 1986
20: La Storia Lunga, 6a, Jakubec, Mierka, 2002
21: Another Day in Paradise, 6b (6a+ obl.), Müller, Müller, Zgraggen, 1991
22: Diritto d’Autore, 5c+, Brambati, Carnati, Vitali, 1987
23: Neverland, 5c, Brambati, Carnati, Vitali, 1986
24: Peter Pan, 6a A1, S. Brambati, A. Carnati, P. Vitali, 1986
25: N Ridge, 5a, Risch, Zurcher, 1923
26: Dixan, 6c (6c obl.), Crippa, Spreafico, 1989
27: Tumiturbi, 6b (6b obl.), Falett, Lisignoli, Mazza, 2004

Sources

• “Solo Granito, Vol. 2: Masino-Bregaglia-Disgrazia”, Mario Sertori, Edizioni Versante Sud, 2015

• “Badile, Kathedrale aus Granit”, Marco Volken, AS Verlag, 2006

• Planet Mountain

• Camptocamp.org

• Summitpost

• Mountain Project

• Paolo Vitali

• Marcel Dettling

• Rossano Libera

• Masino Climbing

• Joachim Schmid

Updates

Jul 14, 2022: First version published.

May 25, 2024: Graphic design update

Mar 16, 2026: Fixed caption of line 24, which was completely wrong. Thanks to Joachim Schmid for pointing it out!