Climbing Ragno di Mare, the most beautiful multipitch in Punta CampanellaA photographer (me), a friend and two other guys I have had a chat to just via internet sometimes in the past months. Best background ever to go climb, isn’t it?
Just few moments after we met and we already were talking like long term friends. The power of climbing, someone could say.
After the preparation, the boys, Diego, Claudio and Luca, approached the base crossing a tyrolean traverse among two outcropping rocks divided by a narrow inlet soaked by the sea.
The three pitches of the route aren’t hard (5c,6a,5a - 5.8 - 5.9 - 5.6) but certainly this 70 meters long climb is beautiful.
Climbing in the afternoon, after the sun makes its turn and leaves the rock still warm but in the shades, with the sea breeze that keeps you fresh, the sound of the waves and far seagulls, every and each of these elements makes Ragno di Mare worth a climb. Not for the grade, not for the athletic challenge, but just to spend quality time with friends and nature at its best.
At the end of the day, what lasted, apart from weariness and hunger, was a shared sense of happiness for what we had done, for me in particular for the pictures I took, and for the memories the experience was inevitably going to create.
Capri Island from Punta Campanella just after sunset.
Eventually, what mostly counts in these blessed days are the sense of wonder and adventure that places like this gives. Moreover, being in that place at that time, being present to oneself in other words, is truly important in days where most of the people are so eager to not move a finger without sharing it with their social media followers, forgetting, perhaps, that the most important thing should be to be there, enjoying that time we are given, producing quality memories more than quality content.