A trip to the origins     , in the Turin mountaineering cradle, to discover historical routes on the Val d’Ala final mountains, on topographers and first alpine guides’ footsteps. Everything started in the 1857 summer. Engineer Tonini, employed by the Savoy royal land registry,     and Ambrosini, his assistant for trigonometric survey operations, climbed the main Valley summits (Ciamarella, Bessanese, Croce Rossa, and Uja di Mondrone). Later on the English mountaineers accompanied by alpine guides, arrived.

A vacation, fit for you, devoted to classic mountaineering. Skill is required to judge and know how to tackle the climbing ground. The true difficulty is not climbing grades but the rock variety and your ability to locate clue passages, at times misleading. On your own or guided by experts’ skill, it will be possible to choose among several itineraries.

• Normal routes:
  Uja Ciamarella, Uja Bessanese, Albaron di Savoia and Uja di Mondrone

• Alternative crest itineraries:
  Punta Maria by the NW Col d’Arnas crest
  Ciamarella, from the Chalanson Passo Superiore, joining Punta Chalanson and Piccola Ciamarella by the border crest

• The great classic routes:
  Spigolo Murari (III – IV) and Cresta Rey (III – IV) to Uja Bessanese
  Cresta dell’Ometto (II – III) and Via Rosenkrantz (III – IV+) to Uja di Mondrone
  Cresta Est to Ciamarella

• The ice routes (March – end of May):
  Parete N of Ciamarella
  Parete NO of Punta Chalanson
  Couloir NE to Rocce Russelle
  Couloir of Punta Rosenkrantz to Rocce Pareis
  Couloir della Dentina to Rocce Pareis