Cima Mandron

3,040 metres, in the Brenta group, and it is the highest point of the long rocky barrier that runs westwards from Cima Brenta Occidentale to the Punte di Campiglio, dropping for more than seven hundred metres above the Vallone dei Brentei.

The two faces are opposite. From the north it is a stairway of terraces that ends in a dome of rock; from the south it is a vertical, reddish wall, cut by debris ledges and furrowed by tall, narrow chimneys between massive pillars, the largest of which is called Campanile Caigo. The reddish brown colour is its most recognisable feature.

The first ascent was on 6 August 1886, by the ridge that joins it to Cima Brenta: it was made by Ludwig Purtscheller, Joseph Reichl and Karl Schulz, the same Schulz who two years earlier had climbed the Crozzon di Brenta, with the guide Antonio Dallagiacomo. Despite its proportions the mountain remains in the shadow of the neighbouring Cima Brenta; its south wall, however, offers many climbs, and the routes from the north, not very difficult, are making it popular with ski mountaineers. The natural base is the rifugio Brentei.