Introduction

In the middle of one of the Andes´ most beautiful areas, rises, neighbor to Cerro Cortaderas, the famous Punta Italia. What few know is that Punta Italia is the deformation of the original name given by its first climbers: Cerro Campione D´Italia, baptized on March 23, 1934, by Giusto Gervasutti and Luigi Binaghi, who walked up the Estero Marmolejo Valley and later reached the summit along the mountain´s North Ridge.

Several years later, in 1945, Eberhard Meier, Ernesto Hoffmann and Alejandro Fergadiott explored the Morado Valley and climbed up Punta Italia´s West Face upt to the col between it and Cerro Cortaderas, to later reach the summit along the North Ridge, and like this setting today´s Normal Route.

In 1960, Mario Ramírez and José Eleodoro Muñoz reached the summit along th South Ridge, also known as the Petohoff Ridge.