North 3 | Simon Gietl & Vitto Messini

Late summer 1991. Hans Kammerlander and Hans-Peter Eisendle, two of the boldest mountaineers of all time, conceived a new challenge, hybrid and progressive, on their home mountains: they climbed in a single day the north faces of Ortles and Cima Grande di Lavaredo, covering the distance between the two mountains (246 km) by fair means, on their bikes. What was born more or less as a game became the milestone of a new way of conceiving mountain activities.
Spring 2018. Simon Gietl and Vittorio Messini took the baton and challenge that achievement, adding a third north face, the Grossglockner’s, and another 117 kilometres by bike. This adventure has not only been the celebration of a hybrid, clean and sustainable way of enjoying the mountains, nor just an exploit, or a dialogue with a page of history and its spirit: the entire enterprise was also an opportunity to collect donations for Südtirol Hilft, a charity organization for people under severe emergency

[@HorstBoller]

Großartige Männer, Vorbild für die Jugend.

[@AlpineMomente]

Harte Verhältnisse, noch härtere Jungs - hab damals mitgeschaut bei euren Updates 💪

[@mr.g65]

ai dos mer den Puivafranz hier trifft

[@tokyorose7952]

This is the true meaning of an incredible sport 💪🏼🙌🏼

[@kingswiper5748]

Die kloane Zinn isch woll net gleich hoach wia die Groase?;)

[@Mike-oz4cv]

Impressive. But it looks like they didn’t transport their gear on the bikes and had a “team” of cyclists to help them out.