Monte Pelf, Mountain summit in the Belluno Dolomites, Veneto, Italy

Monte Pelf is a mountain summit in the Dolomites, rising above 2,500 meters with steep limestone walls and jagged ridges. The peak offers multiple climbing routes of varying difficulty across exposed rock faces.

The south face drops as a large pillar above the Gola del Marmol; a Polish rope team climbed it in 1965 with sustained UIAA grade V and VI difficulties, an itinerary later forgotten because of the rock quality. The normal route and the Marmol via ferrata, plus the equipped Marino Guardiano path, now give access to the summit.

Locals call Monte Pelf the Montagna del Fontanòn, after the waterfall at the foot of its north wall. The summit is reached by a normal route and by two equipped itineraries, the Ferrata Marmol and the Marino Guardiano path, both named after people linked to the mountain.

The normal route climbs from Soffranco or the Grisol valley through meadows and scree, while the northern side is reached via the Circo del Fontanon. The Marmol via ferrata and the Marino Guardiano equipped path give access to the summit crest. The ascent is easy but long and tiring, and the northern ledges are exposed, isolated terrain.

Monte Pelf is nicknamed the "Montagna del Fontanòn" after the waterfall at the foot of its north wall. On that northern side, long ledges leaving the Pala Bassana allow a high traverse toward the Circo del Fontanon, with passages of grade I and II.