Magic Mte Pleros Q.2314

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29 January 2021

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Magic Mte Pleros Q.2314

I see the Mte Pleros from the windows of my mountain hut in Gracco, I see it in summer, at sunset, sunrise, white in winter, grey during rainy days, I see the fog rolling trough from south.
I wanted to climb the north face since years, even if I have been up to the summit several times via south face.
It took many years to attemp the solo climb, as the conditons were rarely favourable.
Finally during winter 2020 exacly in January, the conditions were perfect:
not too much snow and after a week of warm weather, suddently the temperatures dropped for about a week, so this meant very good ice to walk on and safe to use ice screws and ice peak.

I started the hike close to the "Rifugio Chiampizzulon" at 1630 meters, and after a great ascent, apparently the first winter solo on the north face, I was on the summit at 2314 meters.
What a great day!

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Max Ranchi

Max Ranchi was born in Trieste.
In the military service, his first profession was a climbing & skiing instructor in the Alpini, the Italian mountain troops. After four years he decided to change life and travel and after many adventures he ended up in Hawaii, where he met some American photographers, so he had the chance to work as assistant. After two years it was time to move on again, so back to Europe and he went to the Blake College in London, where he studied photography. Back home, in Trieste he started to cover the major regattas, in Italy and Worldwide soon after. He is now among the top professional photographers in the marine industry, he works for sailing teams, press offices and regatta organizers.
In his free time, Max likes to retire to his mountain hut in Gracco, Carnia, where he indulges in snowboarding, climbing and generally enjoying the mountain scenery.