Nodes in Sass de la Crusc

The Sass dla Crusc (German Heiligenkreuzkofel, also Rosskofel or L Ćiaval, Italian Sasso di Santa Croce) is a 2907 m s.l.m. high mountain in the Fanes Group in the Dolomites. It borders the South Tyrolean Val Badia to the east and is part of the Fanes-Sennes-Braies Nature Park. Below the western wall are the pilgrimage church of Heilig Kreuz and the Schutzhaus Heiligkreuz-Hospiz.

In the western walls of the Heiligkreuzkofel there are climbing routes of well-known alpinists such as Georges "the Greek" Livanos †, Sepp Mayerl, Albert Precht, Reinhard Schiestl, Prem Darshano, Heinz Mariacher, Luisa Iovane and Christoph Hainz.

Of particular importance is the central pillar opened in 1968 by Reinhold and Günther Messner, one of the most difficult routes at that time. At that time it was rated with difficulty level VI (the UIAA scale at that time was a closed scale), today with VII+. Heinz Mariacher succeeded in repeating this route for the first time in 1978, but with an easier (VII) bypass of the key point. It was not until 1988 that Andreas Orgler and Otti Wiedmann managed the first free repetition of the key passage.

Further modern routes are 'Loss lei, heb schun', 'Jugendliebe', 'Friedl Mutschlechner-/Carlo Großrubatscher-Gedächtnisweg' by Christoph Hainz and A. Oberbacher and 'Auf die Felsen ihr Affen' also by Hainz.

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Eine leichtere Freiklettervariante zur klassischen 'Mittelpfeiler-Originalführe' von 1968.