Lorenzo Petazzi

Poncione d'Alnasca dominates the Verzasca Valley between Brione and Lavertezzo. As the late and very strong alpinist Marco Pedrini wrote: 'its south wall, 500 m high, is undoubtedly the most beautiful in Ticino and forms an almost perfect triangle, vertical and very compact'. We will take you on the wall with Lorenzo Petazzi, one of the first climbers, to relive the epic of this historical page of European mountaineering. A short film by Fulvio Mariani and Mario Casella produced for the Sottosopra series.