The Tre Cime di Lavaredo are some of the most iconic peaks in the Dolomites. The overall importance of this trio, their somber and tall cliffs, their slender pinnacles have always fostered an incredible fascination and an unconditional deference.The walls are very steep, often overhanging, and they require ease with climbing on loose terrain, experience and mental stamina.Since the very beginning of mountaineering they have been a top destination for the most renowned climbers: many of them left a trace of their visit, establishing new routes, first repetitions, winter ascents, solo attempts, concatenations.
The guidebooks reviews more than 100 routes: besides the classic ones, all the free-climbing options are described in detail, including the "older" aid-climbing ones. Many of them have been repeated by the Authors themselves, who are both proficient climbers and mountaineers.
This work arises as well from the wish of preserving the legacy especially of the most demanding and lest known routes: thus, we will contribute not only to promoting this stunning massif, but as well to safeguarding its environment and preventing the risk of "overbolting" by ill-advised climbers.

Erik Švab born in 1970, resident in Trieste, married with two children, dedicates himself to mountaineering at 360 degrees: sport climbing, classic and modern routes, routes with traditional and solo protections, competitions, new routes, ice falls, dry-tooling , ice and mixed routes, expeditions. In twenty years of mountaineering he has made more than 500 ascents in the mountains.He collaborates with the media and organizes evenings with the public, a member of the Slovenian minority in Italy, he speaks seven languages.He is an honorary member of the Italian Academic Alpine Club. Since he became a father, his greatest achievement has been to reconcile high-level mountaineering with family life and career. He tries it by making climbs around the Alps and in Europe, both in summer and in winter.

Giovanni Renzi, born in 1966, lives in Bellaria (Rimini) where he works as a company manager. He began climbing in 1983 at the Badolo crag and in 1995 he became a National Free Climbing Instructor. He is an assiduous enhancer of the cliffs of the Marecchia valley (www.valmarecchia.it) on which he has equipped about 250 single pitches then collected in the guides Climbing in Valmarecchia (2000), Valmarecchia Verticale (2005) and Verucchio (2008). In 2001 he set up the Valmarecchia Climbing School with which he manages an indoor gym in the province of Rimini. In the Dolomites he has about 200 classic and modern climbs to his credit, of which 30 in Lavaredo. He has visited 300 crags in Italy and Europe climbing single pitches up to 7c on sight and 8a + worked.