Paolo Diacono, in his "Historia Longobardorum" tells, between history and legend,  of the first, illustrious mountain climber of the area: King Alboino. Diacono writes: "King Alboino, having reached the extreme borderline of Italy with all his army and a great multitude of the population, climbed the highest mountain of the area and from there contemplated, right up to where he could see, the lands that opened up around him. It is said that since then the mountain has been called Mount of the King "Mount del Re" ( Mount Re of Raibl which, nevertheless, is not the highest of the area). Before talking about mountaineering, another category of people must be mentioned, who, have climbed the mountain quite frequently: the gendarme , that is the police officers. Over the centuries,  they have been called many times by the authorities  to delimit the boundaries between the summer alpine pastures belonging to various owners. From a parchment dated 1271, for example, it results that the abbot of the Monastery of Moggio complained that Enrico di Prampero, to whom the Monastery had contracted the use of the Montasio pastures , did not only limit himself to collecting the taxes from the shepherds for the pastures only, but , with the excuse that the boundaries had not been marked well, also went beyond, domineering Malga Nevea, exclusive domain of the monastery. As such situations often occurred, the respective property owners would intervene and send the gendarme of the public police force to the place, with parchments full of embellishments and heavy seals, for a new definition of the boundaries, which were often worse than the previous ones