Gran paradiso is the name of a Italian mountain placed in the north west, beetweed Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta region.
It's the only mountain over 4000 meters fully in Italy, i mean that is not on borders whit France or Switzerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Paradiso
It's one of my best adventures in the mountains.
It has a long approach and a ice wall around 60 degree steel 700 meters hight, then a pretty long ridge part and a neve rending descent. But it's so beautiful and definitively deserves the climb.
The night before at the hut: we didn't sleep a lot: warried for the climb and asking myself how to manage certain technique parts
The start of the ice part, i am the one in the upper part (green jacket), we were tied with the rope each other
a picture at my back after the ice part (my partner got angry for the time wasting)
summit and joking
