Drafting and writing the guidebooks involved a much editing and many on-site inspections, and the series soon became a reference work both for amateurs and professional alpinists.

[1] The serie as a whole was considered monumental,[2] and the novelist Dino Buzzati defined it an arduous and remarkable achievement.

[5] In the early 2000s the death of the alpinist Gino Buscaini, who coordinated for a long time the publishing activities, and the resignement of his wife Silvia Metzeltin, who had replaced him for a while, endangered the publication of titles left to complete the coverage of the Italian mountains.

Thus in 2007 a group of mountaineering experts addressed an appeal tho the Club Alpino Italiano chairmanship aimed to save the series and to revive it thanks to a new cooperation deal between CAI and TCI.

[7] Some of the older issues of the series nowadays are very difficult to find, and its volumes aren't any more updated.