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Climbing guide Tessin / Ticino: edition published in 2021

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Ticino is one of the most popular climbing areas in Switzerland. The fourth edition of the SAC climbing guide has been available for a few days.

The new climbing guide Ticino presents 93 climbing areas with a total of 4247 routes. 1510 routes have been added since the last edition. All new routes that are published for the first time in this fourth edition are marked in red.

As usual with the SAC climbing guides, the guide has drawn topos, overview maps, lots of color photos and GPS coordinates for the approach. The trilingual climbing guide is supplemented with information on history, geology and nature.

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