Sass Maor is one of the most beautiful mountains in the Dolomites. Yann Borgnet and Antoine Bouqueret have just opened a 19-pitch route on the thousand-meter-high east face, without bolts. This was Yann Borgnet’s third visit to this corner of the Pale di San Martino. A big climb and a major route, he tells us, still amazed by their adventure.
The Sass Maor and its eastern face? “I’ve been fascinated by it for a long time“, says Yann Borgnet. After a summer of guiding and teaching at ENSA, Yann Borgnet set off for the Dolomites, this time without trainees, but with a new climbing companion, Antoine Bouqueret. Their objective? The Sass Maor, its thousand meters of limestone rising in a single spurt above Val Pradidali, in the Pale. Over the phone, Yann Borgnet makes no secret of his enthusiasm: in just over two days, they