01 Jan OGM – New icefall in Gressoney

 
In Gressoney valley (Val d’Aosta – Italy) in the last two seasons have sprung some new cool waterfalls: helping Mother Nature was not only heavy rain of autumn, but the contribution of some local climbers who have changed the destiny of the frost.
 
So it was just a pipe positioned at the top of the waterfall Trechete (Gressoney St. Jean) has partly diverted water to another side, a little further upstream.
 
The persistent cold in December has created a new ice creature, a beautiful castle imposing and austere. On December 30, Matteo Giglio and Sergio Minoggio have completed the likely first ascent.
 
The line followed by the two climbers , after a pitch on vertical grass, winds up the free standing on the left to the the final large cylinder.
 
Belays on ice except on the last which is on fix. Descent: 2 rappels (1st from the fix – 2nd abalakov). The name refers to the fact that it is a stream artificially created, a Genetically Modified Organism.
 
Topo: Alpine Ice