RECORD ROCK CLIMB
A message from Innsbruck says that the well-known guides, Josef and Angelo Dimai, from Cortina, in the South Tyrol, and Emil Comici, from Trieste, have succeeded in climbing for the first time the northern wall of the Great Pinnacle in the Dolomites, tried in vain by the best climbers of Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, in consequence of its extraordinary smoothness. A large part of the wall is quite vertical, and offers no opportunity whatever for the tourist to find a footing. The courageous conquerors used no fewer than 90 wallhooks, 50 carbines, 270 yards of rope, and 170 yards of cord.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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105RECORD ROCK CLIMB King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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