Cima Grostè

The Cima del Grostè reaches 2,901 metres and is the most imposing, though not the highest, of the sub-group of the Dolomiti di Brenta to which it gives its name. It is the northernmost peak of the central part of the group and appears as a squat massif, with a summit formed by a large plateau sloping slightly towards the north; to the south-west it drops with a wall onto the gravelly basin of the vedretta di Vallesinella inferiore.

The first mountaineering ascent dates from 1882 and was made by Alberto de Falkner from Rome with his son Orazio, aged ten, and with G. Pigozzi from Bologna. Mountaineering, precisely: hunters had already reached the summit. Today the lifts that climb to the passo del Grostè, at 2,442 metres, shorten every approach; the normal route climbs from the north-east over debris terraces and short steps, with second-grade passages, while the climbing routes lie on the south-west wall, some of them laid out by Cesare Maestri.

Between 29 July and 4 August 2025 a rockfall of about half a million cubic metres of rock affected the nearby Cima Falkner and the Cima del Grostè itself, and the equipped paths that pass there have been closed to the public.