Italian climbers Francesco Favilli and Filippo Zanin were killed in a fall on the South Face of Marmolada (10,968ft/3,342m), in the Italian Dolomites, on September 3. They were much-loved members of the greater Italian climbing community, popular faces at the crags and peaks around their home of Treviso.
According to Favilli’s friend and sometime climbing partner Mirco Grasso, Zanin and Favilli were planning to climb the 20-pitch trade route Don Quixote (5.10; 2,500ft), the easiest route on the South Face. It’s unclear exactly what happened, but they fell 300-400 feet. Rescue services mobilized just before midnight on September 3, alerted by Zanin’s wife after he failed to respond to her check-in messages. At 5:30 a.m. the following morning, a search and rescue helicopter spotted Favilli and Zanin’s bodies in a scree field at the base of the wall.
Italian climbers Francesco Favilli and Filippo Zanin were killed in a fall on the South Face of Marmolada (10,968ft/3,342m), in the Italian Dolomites, on September 3. They were much-loved members of the greater Italian climbing community, popular faces at the crags and peaks around their home of Treviso.
