Gole di Gorropu

Big wall · up to 600 m · 6b → 8b+

Access From Dorgali towards the Oddoene valley, following signs for the Gorropu canyon. Park in front of a gate (20-25 minutes from the village), cross the stream and carry on on foot towards the orange walls.

Setting The deepest limestone canyon in Europe. Big wall routes on the canyon walls.

Don't miss Hotel Supramonte: 400 m, 64 bolts, mandatory 7c, hardest 8b. Freed by Larcher and Vigiani in 1999.

Inside the gorge

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Federica Mingolla on Hotel Supramonte

Video: Petzl Legend Tour Italia: Sardegna – Gorropu · © Petzl Distribution 2023 · produced by Klaus Dell'Orto · featuring Federica Mingolla, Maurizio Oviglia, Rolando Larcher, Wafaa Amer. The video loads from YouTube only when you click.

Festenmand. 6c, max 7b600 m, S3

Progetto—

Con le Ali sotto i Piedimax 8b+200 m, S3

Hotel Supramontemand. 7c, max 8b400 m, 64 bolts

IsolitudineDemonte, Giorgi, Nadali — 1998max 8b480 m, 14 pitches

Hotel Supramonte — 400 m of climbing on 64 bolts and 22 belay bolts, with a hardest pitch of 8b and mandatory 7c. According to planetmountain.com, Rolando Larcher and Roberto Vigiani freed it over four days of attempts in May 1999. First repeat by Stefan Glowacz, first complete free ascent by Pietro Dal Prà.

Isolitudine — first ascent by Icaro Demonte, Mirko Giorgi and Lorenzo Nadali, from 27 August to 3 September 1998. 480 m, 14 pitches. Originally graded A4, 6b+; free at 8b (pitch by pitch: 6c, 7a+, 6c, 6c, 7a, 7c+, 8b, 7c, 6c+, 6b, 6b, 6b+, 5c, 6a). First free ascent by Mauro "Bubu" Bole.