Climbing in Val Bavona

Val Bavona is shown here as a valley that connects to one of Ticino’s most productive boulder fields, with the catalog entry reflecting local development work and familiarity. The film A Mellow Cresciano "New King Lines" (2021) starts in Val Bavona and, when a snowstorm closes the upper valley, drops down to Cresciano to follow Giuliano Cameroni, Daisuke Ichimiya, Clément Lechaptois, Marine Thevenet and Diego Cameroni. The piece highlights the area’s granite boulders and the patient, home‑turf approach of climbers who keep finding new lines.

Rather than a highlight reel of single-day sends, the film emphasizes project work: long-standing problems, the rhythm of returning to a hard move, and the social side of a group that knows its rock intimately. The verified place facts situate Val Bavona in Ticino’s Vallemaggia district, and the film’s descent to Cresciano reinforces the practical connections between valley and field — winter closures, shifting objectives, and the kind of local knowledge that fuels ongoing development on Swiss granite.