: Dolomiti di Brenta), a subgroup of the Rhaetian Alps in the Italian Region of Trentino-Alto Adige, with a height of (2,883 metres (9,459 ft)).

They had been unaware of the attempt two years earlier, but found a climbing hammer, empty wine bottles, and finally Garbari's note.

They failed to pass the same crux, but after taking a rest day came back and found a traverse towards the north face from where they could climb to the summit through what is now known as the parete Ampferer, gaining the first ascent of Campanile Basso on August 18, 1899.

In that year a young German lawyer and his dashing[notes 1] American friend decided to climb this mountain from its very base where the big shoulder on its west side sticks out.

King Albert of Belgium (le Roi Alpiniste) climbed Campanille Basso in 1933 by the Via Preuss, giving name to the Terrazzino Re dei Belgi.

Every alpinist of note during the first half of the twentieth century made an ascent by one of these itineraries or the innumerable variants thereof.

But the spirit of Irredentismo was firmly present among the local alpinists, who had founded their own Società deli Alpinisti Tridentini.

Ampferer became an important geologist and member of the Austrian Scientific Academy while Berger fell on the front lines[notes 2] during the First World War in 1915.

The Nazis tried to eradicate the memory of Preuss, who was of Jewish descent, but he is now regarded as a hero and a founding father of free climbing.