Climbing Stromboli Climbing to the top of Stromboli is, by law, severely restricted and only permitted if you join a guided tour. Guides take groups of tourists to the summit, weather permitting, on most days during the season. Groups depart in the afternoon, stay on the summit until darkness and descend late at night. During the hottest season some tours also start after midnight and descend in the early morning hours. The path is very rough, particularly on the way up, and in a group it takes at least three hours of strenuous walking.
Guides advise to take at least one litre of drinking water.
However, SOL team members never climb Stromboli with anything less than two litres each. Please do not throw away garbage on the way up, on the top nor on the way down. This includes bio-degradables as well as a colony of rats breeds on the summit. They have become a great nuisance and they feed on garbage left by tourists. We are in no position to discuss the rules and laws regulating the climbing of Stromboli.