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Try Via Ferrata in the Dolomites for Your Next Activity Holiday by Laura Jeeves





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The stunning UNESCO World Heritage landscape of the Italian Dolomites is the perfect backdrop for any summer activity holiday with its wide range of adrenaline-pumping activities, but none is quite so hair-raising as climbing the Via Ferrata trails.

Whether you want to combine Via Ferrata with a hiking holiday or some other high-octane excitement in the Italian Alps – maybe white water rafting or extreme mountain biking – if you crave adrenaline, I would thoroughly recommend giving these high mountain trails a go.

What is the Via Ferrata?

For those who don’t know Via Ferrata (literally ‘iron road’ in Italian) is a protected climbing route with steel cables running along the mountainside, fixed by metal pegs, for climbers to clip themselves to as they work their way along the rock face.

The first ever trails of this kind were established high up in the peaks of the Dolomites during the First World War, when the Austrian and Italian armies used them to transport men through the mountainous region. Fighting often broke out thousands of metres above the valley floor. Today the Via Ferrata routes in the Italian Alps still show signs of their military past with dugouts and trenches visible in the mountainsides.

The trails from the First World War are still in use today. Climbers now use them to explore the knife-like mountain peaks in the area. But, rest assured, the Club Alpino Italiano, which maintains the network of trails, has replaced the old rope with steel cables and wooden ladders with metal ones fixed to the stone.

Even so, when you’re out on the mountainside most people will feel some of the vertiginous thrill the soldiers must have felt at these heady heights.

A Choice of Routes

At Summit and Blue we like to let our guests decide exactly what they want from their activity holiday. Whether you want just a taste of the Via Ferrata with a one-day excursion to the mountain’s rock face combined with other Alpine activities, or an itinerary that takes in a variety of mountain trails, will be entirely up to you.

For the really adventurous, hard-core climbers I would suggest an eight-day Via Ferrata experience in which you will travel the breathtaking Val di Fassa region. The ultimate activity holiday, this is part hiking, part Via Ferrata, but by the end of the week you’ll feel like you know the rugged mountain landscape as intimately as those First World War soldiers must have done.

 

 

Richard Edwards is the Managing Director of Summit & Blue, an adventure holiday company offering independently crafted activity holiday itineraries for families to exciting destinations around the world, including France, Italy, Portugal, the USA and Canada. With unique itineraries and exciting activities like biking, hiking, white water rafting and canoeing, we create holidays for those looking for an experience a little more off the beaten track.

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