Unfinished business on Corno Piccolo

2,655m Corno Piccolo was the last of the major peaks in the Gran Sasso range we were yet to climb. After our wrong turn three weeks ago, which took us up the via ferrata, rather than the normal route we had been intending, I wondered when our next opportunity would come. We are moving from Italy in August, and it may be some time before we are back in the Apennines.

We had one more opportunity last weekend, however. After attending a farewell party in Rome on Saturday afternoon (back home in...