14 Feb New Icefall in Valchiavenna (Italy)

 
There are waterfalls of ice that occur on time every winter, maybe a tad thinner or fattened compaed to their usual form, while others, for a thousand reasons, appear only rarely.
In one of those  came across the watchful eye of Rossano Libéra, just above his house in a valley that crosses over "the Trecciolino”, a path carved into the rock that connects  val Codera with Val dei Ratti.
Rossano climbed it in his favorite style, free solo, the first day of this winter and named it Winter 2010.
His  words :  "The peculiarity of the icefall is given by the altitude, being just under 900 meters of the path "Trecciolino" and of this reason very ephemeral.. it appeared on those days and who knows when (and if) again.. …
 
I took the opportunity spurred by "Alpine Ice ", being  always bewitched by the ascents of those "crazy" Slovene in free solo on ephemeral waterfalls at very low altitudes .
 
A small tribute to them, although with great difference of difficulty and commitment. The mine is infact only an icefall of 90 meters and grade 4. "