If you're not particularly fit, you can get there and back via the dirt road on the last stretch from the Maraini house to Alpe di Sant'Antonio. A slightly raised vehicle or off-road vehicle could also be used, but there's a barrier at Alpe di Sant'Antonio that would prevent access.

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December 4, 2025

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Fosco Maraini, a name that needs no introduction:
anthropologist, ethnologist, orientalist, mountaineer, photographer, writer, journalist, and Florentine poet, father
of the equally famous writer Dacia Maraini. He began his climbing …

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Wednesday 15 April

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39 %

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