The Tre Cime di Lavaredo are icons of the Dolomites. The imposing  triad, with overhanging, shadowed walls and slender spires have been a magnet for ambitious climbers for decades.
Many of the illustrious names in alpinism have left their mark here, by opening new lines, rapid repaeats, winter and solo ascents and link ups.

This new English language guide features over 100 routes, as well as the classics  it includes all the free routes, along the old and modern, aid routes. Many of the routes  have been personally repeated by the authors. Nice work if you can get it..  It is an undertaking born from the wish to preserve the memory of the more difficult and less known routes, to prevent someone, unaware of them, from overlapping them with a line of bolts.

 Like all Versante Sud productions Tre Cime: Classic & Modern Routes features stunning colour photographs. All the routes are illustrated using a mixture of colour photo and hand-drawn topos with a comprehensive descriptionYou also get the useful stuff, information on huts, access to the area, and a the history.

We've reproduced the preface by Alex Huber, one of the modern movers and shakers below.

PREFACE BY ALEX HUBER

Throughout my life as a mountaineer I have tackled almost all the mountains of the world. Large and small walls, high and steep, rock and ice. All mountains, according to my perception, possess an intrinsic beauty, but beyond these some special mountains exist. K2, Cerro Torre, El Capitan, Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn - these are the most sought-after peaks in the panorama of summits: amongst these the Tre Cime are also included. In the heart of the unrivalled landscape of the Dolomites, the Tre Cime embody to perfection the spirit of climbing with their merciless steep north faces. Thomas and I were born into a family which loved alpine sports, consequently from an early age we were captivated by the world of mountains. Our father especially, who had in his turn climbed every classic Alpine face, is responsible for our addiction to the vertical world. At the age of fifteen for the first time I climbed Spigolo Giallo and the Comici route and it is then that I understood instinctively that I would climb the Cime di Lavaredo many more times.
In fact there is no other group of mountains which has seen me return so often. The Tre Cime di Lavaredo more than any other face has always challenged me; from climbing five routes in one day or making a solo ascent, to climbing the great roof of Cima Ovest. The Tre Cime to this day represents the touch-stone of everything. And will continue to do so in the future.
Enjoy your vertical adventure!!

Alexander Huber