Routes as alpine in Santa Cruz

left up ramp to soaring right facing corner. after 250m head right across snowfield to final 3 pitches.

Up offwidth #6, (ignore guide that says only up to #3) and then chimney, layback corner and ledges. The crack system on upper tier before final crux chimney is superb. Apparently a #4 or 2 is helpful for crux pitch.

In 1970 Ezio Alimonta, Daniele Angeli, Claudio Baldessarri, Carlo Claus and Pietro Vidi opened this new route on the southeast face with the aid of a gas-powered compressor drill. Maestri equipped 350 metres (1,150 ft) of rock with bolts and got to the end of the rocky part of the mountain, just below the ice mushroom. Maestri claimed that "the mushroom is not part of the mountain" and did not continue to the summit. The compressor was left, tied to the last bolts, 100 m below the top. Maestri was heavily criticised for the "unfair" methods he used to climb the mountain.

The route Maestri followed is now known as the Compressor route and was climbed to the summit in 1979 by Jim Bridwell and Steve Brewer. Most parties consider the ascent complete only if they summit the often-difficult ice-rime mushroom.

The first undisputed ascent was made in 1974 by the "Ragni di Lecco" climbers Daniele Chiappa, Mario Conti, Casimiro Ferrari, and Pino Negri.

Source Wikipedia

On the east face.

The Long Run 6c A1 M7, 2100 m, Cerro Torre, new route, following whole SE Ridge of the mountain and summiting two other “cerros” on the way: El Mochito (by a new route, 6a, 250m) and El Mocho (by Benitieres, Anker-Piola, ED-, 6c A1).

ED 6+ A2 90°

The route breaches a hitherto unclimbed crack system up the sharp and elegant East Pillar of Torre Egger and was envisaged by the late Marc-André Leclerc during his ground-breaking first solo winter ascent of Torre Egger in 2016.

Source planetmountain.com

The route follows an extremely logical system of cracks and the pitches flow spectacularly from one to the next… a stand out feature is the overhanging corner in the center of the route marked by a 100m crack and dozens of meters of perfect hand jams! It’s a pitch dreams are made of! The upper section of the route proved somewhat easier but by no means less beautiful.

Source Matteo Della Bordella via planetmountain.com

This route follows the NW Ridge and is a great choice for introduction to climbing in the area. Under normal conditions, boots, crampons and ice ax are needed to climb the final 70m to the summit.

This ridge can climbed instead of the scree/snow slopes to access the start of the Comesaña-Fonrouge.

A hard, varied route with all nature of cracks.

A mixed climb where the crux is often the overhanging serac at the bergshrund.

A classic alpine route that is one of the easiest to any of the granite summits in the massif. Meets with the Comesaña-Fonrouge near the summit block.

A classic route with varied climbing on excellent rock. Meets up with the Comesaña-Fonrouge near the summit block.