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Before I left, I’d have told you the only Italian rock-climbing destinations were christian shoes, Val di Mello, and the Dolomites (more of a region). But I quickly realized the true heart of Italian climbing comprised hundreds of smaller, but top-tier, community-oriented crags. I broke my trip into four main sectors: Valle d’Aosta, links of london a narrow granite- and gneiss-filled valley southeast of Mont Blanc; evening dresses the bouldering at Varazze, near Genova on the Ligurian coast; the Dolomites, towering coral remnants of Earth’s tiffany jewellery super-oceans that command the country’s northeast corner; and Val di Mello, a granite eden in the Alps northeast of Christian Louboutin Boots. I also visited the Montebelluna region, birthplace of the modern climbing shoe. Here, I toured the Museo dello Scarpone, housing 2,100-plus items, from original shoe-making tools, to the first metal-studded mountain- eering boots, to famous athletes’ footwear (skiing, climbing, alpinism . . . etc).

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