{"id":14071,"date":"2025-07-13T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/2025\/07\/13\/piz-badile-july-25\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:12:50","slug":"piz-badile-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/2025\/07\/13\/piz-badile-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Piz Badile, July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piz Badile is the epitome of a mountain: a monolith of iron-hard granite rock that dominates the deeply incised Val Bregaglia. Its northern ridge is the easiest route from Switzerland to its highest point: climbers must overcome mostly slabby, airy climbing of grade 4, with occasional brief stints in the lower grade 6.<\/p>\n<p>A stunning view rewards 29 pitches: the Ortler, Orobie, and even the Valais and Bernese Alps, and more, are within sight. Once the arduous descent to the Italian side is behind them, the magnificent Val Masino, with its seemingly endless abundance of water and forests, awaits the diligent climber.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"1\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-title captions-effect-none \" data-rgg-id=\"1\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540.jpg\" title=\"Piz Badile from the hut approach\" data-caption=\"Piz Badile from the hut approach\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-450x253.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-1500x845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_103540.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539.jpg\" title=\"The Sciora-Group\" data-caption=\"The Sciora-Group\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-450x253.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-1500x845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_144539.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250709_161600.jpg\" title=\"The village Soglio in Val Bregaglia\" data-caption=\"The village Soglio in Val Bregaglia\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium 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href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-rotated.jpg\" title=\"Typical climbing on the &quot;Badile-edge&quot;\" data-caption=\"Typical climbing on the &quot;Badile-edge&quot;\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.46222222222222\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-208x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-208x450.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-453x980.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-768x1662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-710x1536.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_092533-693x1500.jpg 693w, 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<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-208x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-208x450.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-453x980.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-768x1662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-710x1536.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-693x1500.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-326x705.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_103740-rotated.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-rotated.jpg\" title=\"Steep and deep at the beginning of the 6th-Grade-traverse\" data-caption=\"Steep and deep at the beginning of the 6th-Grade-traverse\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.46222222222222\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-208x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-208x450.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-453x980.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-768x1662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-710x1536.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_105833-693x1500.jpg 693w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010-1500x845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_132010.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piz Badile is the epitome of a mountain: a monolith of iron-hard granite rock that dominates the deeply incised Val Bregaglia. Its northern ridge is the easiest route from Switzerland to its highest point: climbers must overcome mostly slabby, airy climbing of grade 4, with occasional brief stints in the lower grade 6. A stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockclimbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14073,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions\/14073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}