Monte Civetta

Monte Civetta (3,220 m) is a prominent and major mountain of the Dolomites, in the Province of Belluno in northern Italy.

Its north-west face can be viewed from the Taibon Agordino valley, and is classed as one of the symbols of the Dolomites.

It is historically considered the first "sixth grade" in six-tier scale of alpinistic difficulties proposed by Willo Welzenbach (corresponding to 5.9).

The famed Svan mountain climber Mikhail Khergiani died in a climbing accident on Monte Civetta in 1969.

[5] In 2022, Reinhold Messner who had been climbing there in the 1990s described the spot, where the 400 m high, 50 m deep and 100 m wide tower broke off.