Fontana di Giovinezza: rappelled after three pitches
Brutally hot in Samolaco. Good friction climbing, but at some point that's enough.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Brutally hot. We rappelled after three pitches, and it wasn’t a hard call.
The climbing is good and not entirely easy — friction that’s fun in cool weather and a lottery in heat. You stand on holds that should take your weight and slide off anyway, because everything is damp, including your own fingers.
At some point there’s no gain in it. You don’t get better, only more irritated.
So down, and the rest of the day spent more sensibly.