Drafting and writing the guidebooks involved a much editing and many on-site inspections, and the series soon became a reference work both for amateurs and professional
alpinists. The serie as a whole was considered
monumental, and the novelist
Dino Buzzati defined it an
arduous and remarkable achievement. The "Guida dei monti d'Italia" is the
best example in Italy of a
systematic alpinistic guidebook or, in other words, a work describing, as much as possible, all the features and the routes of the mountain groups described in its volumes. In the early 2000s the death of the
alpinist Gino Buscaini, who coordinated for a long time the publishing activities, and the resignement of his wife
Silvia Metzeltin, who had replaced him for a while, endangered the publication of titles left to complete the coverage of the Italian mountains. Thus in 2007 a group of
mountaineering experts addressed an appeal tho the
Club Alpino Italiano chairmanship aimed to
save the series and to revive it thanks to a new cooperation deal between CAI and
TCI. The series was indeed completed with in 2013 with its last volume,
Alpi biellesi e valsesiane. Many professionals and enthusiasts in mountainering still own and consult the volumes devoted to the mountain areas of their interest. Some of the older issues of the series nowadays are very difficult to find, and its volumes aren't any more updated. == Titles of the 1st series ==