Swiss mountaineer Jean Troillet and the Frenchmen Martial Dumas and Jean-Yves Fredriksen have made the first ascent of "Sébastien Gay" (600m ABO), a new difficult route up the North Face of the ...

is exactly what Italian alpinist Hervé Barmasse managed to do with his new route established solo up Picco Muzio, the beautiful pyramid which on close examination stands out overbearingly in that ...