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"I had born in Cortina d'Ampezzo, a little town below the amazing Tofana di Rozes. It is a mountain I know well, the "Rozes". I have been climbing this mountain since I was a child, and I have been taking countless hikes around it. It cannot fail to impress any passer-by: you see it as soon as you enter the valley of Cortina, towering as the leftmost of the most famous massif in the valley (the 3 Tofane).
You see it on your right when you drive towards the Falzarego pass, and its huge mass is almost hanging over you. But then you can see it from anywhere if you rise high enough in the Dolomites: it is simply one of the biggest in that very remarkable group of mountains.
It is so fascinating because it is so big and at the same time it is so well defined, detached from the others. It stands on its own.
Here I'm going to describe the ascent that I did in 2009 with my friends Alberto and Paolo along the via the Dimai-Eötvös. It was the 7th time that I was climbing the Dimai-Eötvös. The route takes its name from two Hungarian baronesses: Ilona and Rolanda Eötvös. In 1901 they were guided by Antonio Dimai, from Cortina, together with Giovanni Siorpaes and Angelo Verzi. The climb is a ..." — GuideDolomiti • Aug 15, 2009